If you’re not in the UK, yet you’re reading this, you might not know what’s going on.
Basically, the mother of all low pressure systems has deigned to visit us here in the UK, and whilst it was at it, drag 80Mph gusts of wind with it.
Now, ordinarily, this isn’t a big deal. We get wind a lot, and massive gusts like that, whilst rare, do happen.
The biggest problem is when they happen all damn night! I tried to prepare last night by making sure I’d closed down the window to a sufficient degree, to stop the wind rushing in and making the blind flap about.
That may have worked, but what I instead ended up with was a noise like a vacuum cleaner, as the air rapidly whooshed in through the open window. So, I ended up having to get up in the wee hours, and close the window fully.
I have some small vents in the window also, which usually aren’t much of an issue. Last night, they too ended up making a noise – a far higher-pitched whooshing noise than the window on its own, so yet again, I had to get up and close the vents.
More time passes, and now my window sounds like a kazoo! So yet again, I get up, and have to fiddle with the vent to shut it up.
At this point, I should say ‘and then I finally got to sleep’. Only I didn’t. Instead, I lay there, listening to the wind, willing it to shut up, and hoping I’d fall asleep. I’m honestly not sure how long I did sleep, but I don’t think it was long – only a couple of hours. It explains why I’m now headachey, and half asleep.
Apparently, the same is forecasted for tonight. Oh joy.