Nearest weather station registered 33 mph wind at 10 o'clock, and it's expected to peak averaging just over that wind speed at around midnight. There's distant lightning somewhere - here just low scud cloud haring across a watery moonlit sky at the moment. Ah that was a moment ago - now it's raining again! The refuse collectors emptied both sets of bins this morning, so I had to go out in the pouring rain and place them in the bin compound so as not to get blown over. Also placed all the outside pot plants down in the basement area. No one else has heeded my request and advice to remove items and garden furniture from balconies. 
So far our rickety bin enclosure fence is managing to stay upright, as is also the fence surrounding the clothes hanging area, which got partly blown down in the 007 gales. This is living up to earlier predictions as our strongest "blow" so far in this sequence of stormy weather. Can't seem myself getting much sleep tonight, what with the howling of the wind and every so often a loud thwack from a branch hitting the window.
So far our rickety bin enclosure fence is managing to stay upright, as is also the fence surrounding the clothes hanging area, which got partly blown down in the 007 gales. This is living up to earlier predictions as our strongest "blow" so far in this sequence of stormy weather. Can't seem myself getting much sleep tonight, what with the howling of the wind and every so often a loud thwack from a branch hitting the window.
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