Storm Darragh – What’s the Damage?

Last weekend’s Storm Darragh brought with it a rare red wind warning. While the damage wasn’t as widespread as Storm Arwen in 2021, it has caused a fa …

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Storm Darragh – What’s the Damage?

Devastation in our garden here.
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Blea Tarn – The Lakes

 

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I lost 2 panels

 

Amazed that none of my commute was affected. Lots of narrow farm roads and all is fine. Wet n muddy, but that’s about it.

The trails in Dalby forest, North Yorkshire have suffered heavily, they are suggesting it won’t be till the new year before they are anything like usable, most of the Blue and Red route have numerous large trees down on them and I would imagine any of the “local knowledge” stuff will be far worse

I was thinking of going to llandegla today but it’s still closed

 

Coed y Brenin was another option but apparently that’s not all open

 

Loads of local trees are down blocking routes

 

I think it’s the wind direction that caused the issue. Trees are used to been hit from the west so they have all grown strong in that direction.  This all came from the north.

Certainly LLandegla would be very exposed to winds from that durectio

 

Still no mobile signal where we live. Water only came back on for some yesterday

 

A local stream is currently causing a main road to be partially closed as they try and clear all the debris from the tunnels under the road to prevent houses from being flooded .

 

A local house was very lucky not to be hit by an extremely large and wide pine tree. Its base was about 10ft, maybe 60-80ft tall