Are you risking traveling today?

[sunbob]

We've been upgraded to a red warning and the met office forecast says winds maximum 67mph around midday. Would you travel 6 miles south east for an optional activity? Or anywhere else for other reasons?

[Spartacus]

Perfect day to fly a kite or go hang gliding

Not

[heartblock]

Have something booked that requires a longish car journey...and driving for the first time in 6 months...I may cancel :( and watch the wheelie bins take flight instead!

[Angelina]

Go on an optional activity if you don't think you'll get blown away/ something that has been blown away will hit you/ tree will fall on you.

[sunbob]

We've cancelled our trip now. Hope everyone stays safe!

[intexasatthe moment]

My vote would be no .It seems ok at the moment and people might be tempted to think the warnings are an over reaction ,but transport and roads will be affected by preemptive measures if nothing else .

[KidKruger]

There?s gonna be a lot of debris flying around today, we?re surrounded by tile-clad Victorian roofs so not a good fit with extra strong winds !

I?m meant to be erecting scaffolding today, may have to wait a day or two.

[Spartacus]

I do have to ask if delivery companies / Royal mail will be crazy enough to try and deliver today

For the safety of the workers I hope not...

[KidKruger]

Yep just had a delivery from RM.

(tbh I was more shocked to get an RM delivery at all, than I was to get a delivery during a storm 😳)

[Milan05]

we've had a DPD but Royal Mail put back until Monday

[Seabag]

I?m lighting the bbq later. It might prove to be a little lively, but staying firmly at home.

[malumbu]

I wouldn't fly, can't go by train, not cycling today, but would be prepared to go on a short car journey. I drove during the 1987 storms blissfully unaware that they were the worst in a century, everyone seemed to have a chain saw in deepest darkest Kent.

I'd avoid a longer car journey due to the likelihood of disruption. Worst thing in 1987 was getting fuel as most forecourts were closed due to power cuts. The good chainsaw gangs were great in Kent for clearing roads of fallen trees - much worse than today I expect as it had been so long since we'd had a good storm, and worse as the leaves were still on the trees meaning more wind damage.

Would I have driven in 87 knowing how bad the storms were? It wasn't the eye of the storm, which was overnight, and of course being much younger I was much less risk averse.

In the same decade living in Oxfordshire, I gave up cycling one day to motorcycle into work. Cyclists were leaning into the wind, coming to a wind break, and falling over under their own force. I have the opposite some mornings when I cycle onto a bridge over the Thames.

Rumour has it that Southwark Council are responsible for today's bad weather

[Moovart]

The eye of the storm is the calm bit in the middle of the windy bits!

[intexasatthe moment]

Heartblock hope all ok if you decided to travel.