Weather? You call that weather?

[curiouswombat]

Okay, not usual for me to post twice in an hour or so, but boy have we got a bit of weather tonight! I have just been out to collect daughter-dear from her youth club thing she does on Fridays, and it is, to use the locally accepted technical term, blowing a hooley out there! It is currently Force 9 -10, and the Met. Office reckon it should reach Force 11 (Severe Storm, just 1 below hurricane) by about 4a.m. (just over 4 hours away.)

It is not so much 'blowing over bins' type weather as 'blowing off slates' (or possibly whole roofs,) type weather - first BIG storm of the winter. No boats sailing to the UK tonight! Wouldn't want to be out there tomorrow either!

And you know what? I will lie in bed and enjoy listening to it until I fall asleep - really good storms were one of the things I missed whilst I lived in a city, the wind got so broken up that you never really heard it or felt it. One of my abiding memories as a child is sleeping in our attic bedroom (no, not really that poor - my sister and I liked the attic - big floor space and interesting ceiling slopes!), and feeling the whole house gently swaying me to sleep in really big storms!

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[opalescence.livejournal.com]

I adore big storms!