milkmaid

no damage here a lot of the village is without power ,to be honest i think that with the direction of the wind, westerly i am up a hill just under the brow of the hill I think that made it a bit better as we are on the east side of the brow ,i'm hoping people will only have slight damage and a thought to all the electric guys and others for keeping things going ,we ended up in a red ,

robert ,a grab bag is a good idea ,didn't live on that side of the island but lived on the other side for years ,have a safe night ,not really started here yet ,but lashed down like we used to when we lived on lewis as we are at height

ben wyvis is under that angry looking cloud ,that is rolling in towards us ,second pic is towards fyrish

really heavy snow here with drifting ,i'll send someone out to get pics lol

we got power back on properly late last night .Around here most of the downed trees were the ones with ash dieback ,a few firs ect though not many . Can i thank everyone for their ideas ,on resilience in power outages as we ended up with my grandchildren their house relies on electric ,we don't really having wood burning stove for cooking ,a few bits might have found their way into my shopping basket to make things more comfortable next time wind up radio and charger being one ,we were better equipped on Lewis when we lived there and the tech has really moved forward ,bored kids need something to do lol,

power restored at 20.10 ,daughters and hubby had a hairy night and managed to get home at 8 20 this morning ,they are tired but ok

wind is really ramping here ,think we are slightly more exposed from the north ,or NW ,waiting for my husband who has gone to pick up my daughter from work, there is a lot of trees with ash dieback , they have just had to turn back trees down ,i t's going to be a cold night in a car park

very windy here ,hubby had to find a different route home as tree across the road ,must really get a anemometer , but we are at an elevated level