There were three trees down on my way to work today. So I can only imagine what it is like elsewhere. Anyone got any damage or any pictures?

Large bush in road in Surrey = 'Tree down"

I love storms!! A few branches down on the way to work, and lorries crawling along doing 30mph but other than that not much disruption atm. It was windy and wet here half an hr ago, now as calm as a summer day - the eye of the storm perhaps???

 One of my broodmares looks set to go into labour any time now - I am so tempted to call the offspring "Storm"

If anybody wants a good laugh I suggest looking at the comments on the BBC Have Your Say http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4448&edition=1&ttl=20080310123204 

Seems this country can't do anything right with Brown in charge.  First the biggest earthquake for decades - one man slightly hurt (BBC spend a fortune on helicopters etc. to capture footage of the devastation).   Now it's a bit windy in March, a few power lines down and the odd Surrey bush in the road (BBC reporters dispatched to West Country beaches to commentate in the sunshine with the odd wave or two in the background).

Is this the nation that forged an Empire?  Or did Noel Coward get it wrong - Mad dogs and Englishmen certainly wouldn't be going out in the mid-day sun if the Met Office severe weather warnings were in place or Health and Safety had anything to do with it!

If you can stand even more of this try looking at the Met Office advice on what to do in gales http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/advice/storm.html

You know, I would never have thought of shutting the doors and windows without this official help!

I've just been reading the news forum too. So far the storm here has been a huge anti-climax, doubtless in parts of the country it has caused significant damage, but we can always rebuild. It does seem that England as become a nation of moaners and whingers.

Is this storm hype to do with insurance companies refusing claims, if say for instance you leave a wheelbarrow in the garden and it is blown through your french windows, it is down to negligence?

Driving home from Surrey one night, a tree came down across the road . Groups of people stood about blaming the council for letting such a thing happen when council taxes were so high etc and where were the police, fire brigade, environmental agency etc ? I arrived home in Hampshire to find the road to the house blocked by another tree. Two neighbours appeared with chain saws and with the help of other neighbours, the tree was cut up and stacked by the roadside with a note for people to help themselves. Two days later all the wood had gone.

The post Jacobus made reminded me how for years we were told if a tornado was coming to open our windows, because the intense low pressure could blow a house apart from the inside out if the windows weren't open.  Now, they say don't worry about opening the windows, the tornado will do that for you.  Also reminds me of the safety sticker on my round baler, it says something to the effect, "bales from this baler are large heavy and round, stay clear of them".  I would have never guessed the round part, given it is called a round baler. 

Usually the 35-mile commute in from the sticks takes me an hour. Today it took over two hours as the line of cars ahead of me picked its way through fallen trees and branches etc. The only dodgy bit of the drive was while I was stuck in a queue to get past one stricken tree. Other trees on that particular stretch were starting to look pretty shaky. Watching the roots appear from the soil beneath a tree next to me was, to put it mildly, a bit of a worry. 

In England this is known as the 'bleeding obvious' of which I have a first class honours degree - from the University of Life - where else!

O.K, it's wet and a tad breezy, but one of my ewes still decided to lamb in it! I got home from work to find her in the far corner with a new ewe lamb trying to get to it's feet. Every time it got up, the wind sent it sprawling! She is now safely in with her mum! I think the forecasters big it up to cover their backsides after the 'Michael Fish' storm in '87.

Heeding the shepherd's motto of "sheep will lamb when the glass is rising" we thought we were in for a quiet night but our overweight, lazy, Hampshire Down proved us wrong. Interestingly the wind was forecast from the SW, so we staked down things like hay cratches with that in mind. At 2am the "storm" was definitely from the SE.

well we had 60/70cm of snow on saterday/sunday as well as 80k winds. got so bad the plows had to stop running because it was so dangerus and i still got to work and back in it.

My truck in the snow after i parked it up at home and left it for a hour.