power cuts and high winds.

I don't think I have ever known wind like this. The met office site says we have winds of 44 mph with gusts up to 65mph. I've had no electricity for an hour, the power is back on now but I'm not sure for how long. I've spent some time in the garden trying to secure things. I have all the wood piled up in my garden ready for the fences being built and I'm having visions of it sailing away on a gust of wind and smashing into someones windows, all I can do is try to pile it up together and hope the weight of it keeps it in one place.  I've put as many things in my shed as possible but I think my garden is going to be one big mess when this is over. It's made worse because I've just had all the hedging removed which has left the garden open to the wind.  The tree opposite my house has lost some branches, there was a man from the council there when I came home from work, he was trying to tidy away the felled wood  and make the area safe. The picture above is a big tree that stands just opposite my house, hard to see from this how much it's swaying in the wind, but take my word for it, its moving around quite a lot. The wind is howling around outside and where ever I go in my house I can hear it. I called my daughter on my cell to make sure she's ok, her house is quite rural,  she had no power and they had a tree down in their garden which they were trying to deal with.

Guess I better go cook while I still have power.....................