Yes u can relax  Ian and have a nice sleep unless u r going to Denmark

As it happened:

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Aaah Colchester - Lived there most of my life Damaging winds were never that common over there thankfully

Despite the complexities of the developing storm it was well modelled with adequate sensible warnings and was well forecasted by the Met Office in the 12 hours leading up to the event. Affected areas were a little further south in the end, hence the reasom why places just missed out on the strongest of the winds. 

The media did over hype things with words like 'Mega Storm, Killer Hurricane' etc etc

Gusts did peak in the 70-80mph range as forecasted. A lot of trees are down, it is a mess out there.

The advanced warnings allowed emergency planners to get their contingency plans in place. A lot of work has gone on behind the scenes for the last 3 days thanks to the warnings and advice.

It is no flluke of luck that most of the major road networks in southern Britain are moving fairly freely this morning 

What about the storm of Autumn 2000 that crossed The Midlands, 80mm's of rain and gales of upto 70mph!

The flooding around Loughborough was awful with Brooks bursting their banks as well as river outside the town.

Is there another one coming? weekend or next week

Not much to add - Some reasoned posting from many today thankfully

These two local incidents happened close to the time of the 77mph gust I recorded:

Ipswich star link

Mendlesham is a couple of miles from here.

The A140 is a mile from our house with clear line of sight - just took a look and there's another overturned lorry visible at Little Stonham.

John

[edit] pic from our front door - SX40 doing a good job on extreme zoom:

http://xcweather.co.uk/

Sandettie Light Vessel is reporting sustained winds of 69mph, and was reporting sustained winds of 71mph at 7am. That's 3mph off hurricane force!

http://www.heart.co.uk/berkshire/news/traffic-and-travel/

Take a look around that map - loads of fallen trees blocking roads.

NOT a typical autumn storm IMO.

Well, just got into work in High Wycombe, having cleared up the fall of masony and tiles off our roof which unfortuntaely fell onto my car!!! I have just had it repaired like new having hit a deer recently.

Height definitely a factor in the Chilterns. My son who is a tree surgeon reported nothing exceptional in HW yet over the hills the winds were extraordinarily powerful and sustained at around 5:45 a.m. abd subsided at around 6:30 a.m.  This was when all our damage was caused.

This was also accompanied by thunder and lightening - almost tornado like condtions but without the funnel.

On the patio we have huge metal plant containers all of which blew over - an amazing 45 minutes.

Just up the road from us are the airship hangars at Cardington. They were built there because it has one of the lowest mean wind speeds anywhere in the country. That means we don't get many wind events at all here and they tend to be muted when they do occur. This mornings blow didn't even move the wheelie bins about (well not much anyway) however it was very windy for 15 minutes or so. I can see from other reports that places further south have had a much worse time with this event and so I don't think the warnings were overdone even though here in North Herts, it didn't come to much.

We have a few trees down around here, not loads.

No power though! Went off about 5am, which meant a freezing cold shower this morning in pitch black! Awesome!!

SC. I'd already warned once about such ridiculous oneupmanship. Apart from the fact that this has not been as "minor" as you seem to be making out. Please refrain from this sort of post.

The A327 on my way to work was partially blocked by a large tree limb; completely blocking one side of the road. Plenty of other large branches around and lots of twig and leaf debris generally. Our garden and fences all survived unscathed.

I think we can all agree that this was not a "Killer Hurricane" (Express), "Megastorm" (Star) or even "Superstorm" (Times). It was simply a "storm". We seemed to get these quite regularly in the past. I'm certainly not going to be recounting the "great storm of 2013" in years to come!

It was not a bad as I expected here , although there are lots of trees down in the county.

I do think the authorites were right to treat it the way they have though.

Here in our business park in Hook, we have power, and there's no sign of it having been cut. Obviously just part of the village is affected.

Some of those gust here where Huge James here some local trees down around me here and buses blown over  dont think ive heard my roof tilies play and rattle and make a tune for a while maybe since 87 thankfull it didnt last 2 long