The Perfect Storm...

Hey

What on earth happened to the weather??

Iwent to visit my mum yesterday with Harry as she's off work ill, so we went to cheer her up and look after her for a little bit. Last night we look out of the window to see it was snowing!! I was a little worried that it would stick and I'd be stuck in Bradford, normally wouldn't be a problem but Harry had his first Water Babies swimming lesson today so I didn't want to miss it!

Anyway when we got up this morning it had pretty much all gone so I set off back. It was pretty bad rain coming home but then seemed to brighten up this afternoon..... the calm before the storm. David rang me at around 5pm to ask me to pick him up from work as he'd gone on the bike but the wind was really picking up. It's a pretty good job I did as the wind has now got really bad! The car was been blown around on the way home, the prom has been shut and now quite a lot of roads around Blackpool have also been shut due to flying debris, fallen trees and parts of roofs.

So we made it home, rescued our grey bin from halfway up the road, after we managed to get out of the car and keep the doors intact. We parked at the other side of the road (no houses on that side) as our car has a glass roof and we didn't want to risk any tiles coming off the house roof and smashing the car roof. Low and behold this seems to have been a very clever idea of ours. So far about 5 or 6 tiles have come off, and a few broken pieces are in the very spot our car would have been. David went out and rescued 3 complete intact tiles but the rest are shattered. We rang a roof man and left a message with him now, so hopefully we'll be in a good spot in the queue when the storm calms and people go and assess the damage to their houses. Ringing now should get us to the top of the list quicker than the ones ringing in the morning (or when the storm calms).

Here's to hoping the storm calms and doesn't cause too much damage to ours and everybody else houses! Here's also praying it doesn't cost a bomb....

Donna
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