I recommend Milk of Magnesia

Just astonishing to see such high winds STILL across the UK on XCWeather, so many hours on. Daybreak shows, mercifully, no significant damage here, thank goodness...thoughts and prayers go out to those whom have been less fortunate.

There is something wrong with the climate for sure

When I began in construction (70's), the old boys would often talk of the 47 winter and how work was halted for months on end

because of it.

Although this winter is not a freeze I'm beginning to see this as similar in some ways to 47 although so far not as long or as bad.

Since early December I don't think we've had a full week in work. and where we usually have the weekends off, if it was dry on a Satuday or Sunday we went in.

However the ground has become that sodden with hardly a break from the rain and wind, we've been rained off for nearly TWO

weeks

The economy is bound to taken a kick in the gonads from this weather in more ways than one

House-shudderingly windy last night - actually quite scary! The garden fence is rather wobbly this morning, so will need to work out how to save it in such sodden ground.

Well, all is still intact here, and thankfully I slept through most of it last night anyway (did take me a while to settle down, though), the joys of being hard of hearing. However, at the moment it is still quite blustery with heavy showers rattling through - but then the sun will be shining away in five minutes time.
  There is that bitter brine-like scent in the air, not surprising as half of the Altantic must be sitting over Southern England by now.

Over this winter, Hampshire has dodged a few bullets but not last night.

Very sad to see all the damage, especially along the coast. The seafront would have been a very dangerous place yesterday evening.

What was unusual about the event was the longevity of the strong winds. Absolute maximum gusts were impressive but it was that number of hours that it was maintained that was particularly destructive.

I alluded to this in a warning I issued elsewhere yesterday morning and you just hope on those occasions that it doesn't work out

Only consolation is that it happened at night and not at peak commuter time.

I also sincerely hope this winter is a 1-off and  isn't  the  result of a  long term "pattern change" of some kind - last thing we need is a  decade or so of this crap.

Shorter term, it's good to see  the MO warning charts clear of wind and rain  after the current  ones "time out" in a minute.

Same here, lost the felt, some fence panels, guttering as well as a panel on the garage roof which I cant find.

As much as I like extreme weather, it is no fun when it happens to you.

And just when I thought it was over, we just had another squall which took out a small tree.

Also just heard on the news that the Army has been called into to help prevent the local water works from flooding. If that goes we will have no water

http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Army-called-help-stop-stricken-Kenley-water/story-20635832-detail/story.html

A neighbour's wall blew down - not significant in the great scheme of things, but interesting that it blew down in the opposite direction to that of the wind. Obviously a bit of extra power added by a small vortex forming - there are tall buildings nearby.

A nearly full moon last night, and bright, so if there was a shower about in the direction away from the moon, it could have been a moonbow, which does not appear coloured - see http://www.atoptics.co.uk/rainbows/moonbow.htm for full commentary but basically the light level is too low for the colour receptors in the eye to respond.

A neighbour of mine lost a long length of wall during the Christmas storms. It's obvious to see why that went - 6Ft high single thickness stretcher bond (half brick thick). No buttressing, no support and, as the wall disintegrated into its component bricks, I suspect very little cement in the mortar. It's a miracle it's stayed there that long (built at the same time as the rest of the estate in the late 1980s).

Last nights raain ( in the form of showers ) and this mornings showers delivered more rain than yesterdays rain band . what a very rough nigh, been to work this morning so many fields under water

As others have noted, it's the duration of this event that is so remarkable. Here it's been gusting to around 50knots or more for over 12 hours. Usually in these events it's a couple of hours only for peak gusts.

No significant damage noted locally fortunately apart from the usual wheelie bin carnage and some stripped shed roofs. However, some of my wooden fenceposts have now fractured below ground level and the attached panels are swinging wildly, so I don't think they would survive another blow like this one.

The River Avon is the highest I've seen it since 2000, and is providing some remarkable scenery at the moment.

There are many blown-out fence panels to be seen this morning, along with countless fallen branches, some as large as small trees.

One tree appeared to have lost all the bark on one side, which could actually be a consequence of lightning, although I recall no thunder yesterday - even during the torrential rain showers.

Today it's managed to tip it down a few times in the past hour or so. The fat rain drops were very much of the April Shower variety... some 45 days too early.

Gales here overnight with showers but nothing overly severe compared to down south.

massive  sink hole homes evacuated

http://news.sky.com/story/1212076/homes-evacuated-as-20ft-deep-sinkhole-appears