Yes hats off to the Met Office for their warnings - spot on.

And also fair play to yhe government for sending out the alert via phones - I know a few people who were in the red area who didn't know there was a red warning until the government alert came through. It both informed and underscored the seriousness of it and thoug I've no way yo prove it, I'm sure that it saved lives.

On the longevity of the wind - Aberporth had 9 hours straight with gusts above 80mph. Even for an exposed site that's extraordinary .

Yes, the storm may be hundreds of miles away now but the effects go on! It was windy here all night, and it will if anything get stronger today - back into the 40s (mph, I don't do knots). Rain on and off all day today too in that strong NE'ly wind, delightful.

More of the same tomorrow, then finally on Wednesday winds fall below 30mph - just. It has to be one of the longest runs of windy weather I've ever seen, normally once the low buggers off there's a lull - but not this time!

If only the 850s are in the -15 C, what a waste of what is the perfect NE airflow at this time of the year. 

The main supplies are still at Poole Quay. Fingers crossed.

Agreed it a very stupid storm that not give us cold and snow storms once winds veer to NW to NE.   If was in the middle east it will snow no matter what source it come from not fussy as this country climate is.  Most often the none named storms there started as rain then turn to snow to give sufficent snow depths then proper cold air arrive with sunny cold nights afterward.   Arwen gave me 8cm of snow here and that storm was not a big one as this pathetic one is.

I heeded the warnings. 

Same here, and I'm sure I can hear icy bits in the rain as it batters the windows.

Waiting to see if our ship gets in with fresh food, right on the limits.

EDIT: As I thought, heading down to Guernsey then Jersey. Might see her tomorrow evening on the way back to Poole.

I wonder in penny-pinching over £500 will prove a good move? I shall remember "Ageas" when I next renew my insurance.

'My insurers say Storm Darragh was not a storm'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyj6y10y15o 

Fantastic. I bet the other insurers will be watching closely.

The irony, of course, is that one of the reasons naming lows came in was to make claiming for storm damage easier!

As as we've seen with both Bert and Darragh, it's the longevity of the strong winds as much as the absolute max that caused the damage. Darragh also saw that marked change in direction. The insurers wouldn't care about that of course, hiding behind that nice 55mph figure!

Surely nobody knows what the actual wind speed was on his roof?  That aside, I’d like to see the actual policy wording.

Scumbags!

One of the most common requests I get asked via the website is "what was the wind speed at location X on date Y".

Force 9 or thereabouts on the Beaufort scale I believe. It has to be Force 10 then for a claim to be valid.

Now the media are involved I'm sure they will back down like the car park owners do with the five minute rule.

https://weathernet.co.uk/ 

FWIW my car is insured by Ageas. Not a good advert for them but perhaps this applies to all insurers.

This will be an interesting case for loss adjusters who get the contract. And forensics hard at work as I type.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd75e5jpy8eo 

(The BBC were very quick to edit when I pointed out that the journalist wrote that Thomas Hardy trained as an apprentice architect in 1956 at 16 years old.)

Exactly.   They cannot possibly demonstrate what the wind speed was at that specific location.   It therefore comes down to how the policy is worded. 

Unfortunately trivial things like house insurance were not something I got involved in when I was in insurance (and it was, in any case, last century).