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Written by Chitchat 🎶🎻 on 2025-01-23 at 18:51

So what have you been doing to prepare for #StormEowyn?

I'm wondering how you can prepare for the possibility of your roof blowing off, or your windows blowing in. I've stashed my fiddle under a very chunky table - that seems the most important thing right now!

I'm thinking I'll shut the curtains tonight and not open them again until Saturday

[#]Scotland

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Written by Siobhán Greaney (Shivers) on 2025-01-23 at 19:09

@Cyclist West coast of Ireland rather than Scotland. We're expecting to lose power at some stage. Hoping roof stays on 🤞

Prep list:

✅ Candles out and lighter to hand

✅ USB bottle lights charged

✅ Battery powered candles/fairy lights out

✅ Power pack for phone recharging charged

✅ Spare drinking water and flushing water in case of water issues

✅ Food that doesn't need power to store or heat

✅ Car fully fuelled

✅ Essential paperwork in waterproof and grabable spot

[#]StormÉowyn

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Written by Chitchat 🎶🎻 on 2025-01-24 at 07:19

@shivers very useful. I hadn't thought of flushing water. Will fill the bath shortly. Hope you're all OK over there!

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Written by Cabbidges on 2025-01-23 at 19:50

@Cyclist

I've made sure the bath is clean and empty in case I have to hide in it.

There's not really a lot I can do.

We don't have any kind of shelters around here, or co ordinated contingency plans.

Just have to hope our roofs stay on and a wheelie bin doesn't come through the window.

And check on neighbours and such.

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Written by Queer Like The Slur on 2025-01-23 at 22:16

@Cyclist a few months ago all the windows on one side of my house blew in and the roof failed. If I had to do it again, this would be my preparation list:

-know exactly where pets and small children are, have harnesses on pets but don't lock them in crates (they're good at getting out of the way of falling debris)

• know what shape the roof is and where it's most likely to fail. Put pets and valuables in a room that is likely to stay intact and dry.

-put important documents in waterproof bags, put them in a safe if you have one

-have important medications both on you and in a safe

-put all phones in waterproof cases/bags, cover larger electronics, musical instruments and other large valuables with tarp/garbage bags

• immediately began filming any damage, be sure to have space on phones to do this, this helps hugely with insurance claims. Film your entire surroundings like a real estate inspector, it may pick up evidence of damage you're not yet able to see

• store plenty of drinking water

• put on sturdy boots and outdoor work clothes, have a decent meal and get well hydrated before the storm arrives

[#]StormEowyn

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Written by Chitchat 🎶🎻 on 2025-01-23 at 23:20

@coolandnormal that's a fabulous list - thanks for sharing it! I clearly have a few things to do before it hits.

Thoughts so far: charge phone, torches, move everything away from windows, shut curtains. Let friends elsewhere know power might be out for a few days, water bottle by the bed, fill pots with water, buy food that doesn't need cooking. Stash fiddle under dining table. Weigh down bin & lay it flat, tape electric meter box shut

Ran out of steam at that point!

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Written by Queer Like The Slur on 2025-01-23 at 23:23

@Cyclist it sounds like you've done all the important emergency prep stuff.

My list just adds some specific 'loss of roof' related stuff

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Written by Chitchat 🎶🎻 on 2025-01-24 at 04:58

@coolandnormal it would never have occured to me to put things like laptop/critical documents into something waterproof.

I'll be very glad when this has blown over!

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Written by Queer Like The Slur on 2025-01-24 at 05:21

@Cyclist it wouldn't have occurred to me either, I'm way above the flood line. But the roof plumbing was overwhelmed by the amount of precipitation, so most households had to deal with some water indoors.

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Written by Simon Brooke on 2025-01-24 at 09:23

@Cyclist I designed this house in the understanding that it had to provide survivable shelter in severe storms, so my bedroom is designed as a safety cell. If a falling tree hits the house it may well collapse – it's only made of straw bales – but the bedroom is a well triangulated timber framed structure and even if the house collapses and it falls, and several tons of tree fall on it, it should be OK.

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Written by Simon Brooke on 2025-01-24 at 09:27

@Cyclist one of the great benefits of living in a house one designed and built one's self is that one knows exactly what all its weaknesses and failings are!

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Written by Chitchat 🎶🎻 on 2025-01-25 at 08:39

@simon_brooke I'd so love to be able to do that. I've done a lot of work on this house to make it warmer and repair all sorts of issues, which means I'm fairly familiar with the structure of it, but there's nothing like doing the whole thing yourself. I would design something way more wind resistant if I was starting from scratch now

Hope your clearup today isn't too arduous

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Written by Nat 🐏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on 2025-01-25 at 08:58

@Cyclist @simon_brooke hoping things are not looking too awful for you this morning, minimal damage for us up here, no house to worry about yet, but as you say designing oneself to@mitigate for this weather should hopefully make us more hardy.

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