Disaster Relief

Hope you all survived the storm. 

Commenters at the Telegraph have been helping report on the devastation. 

[A warning: What follows contains graphic descriptions of suffering which some readers may find disturbing. There's also some flash photography.]

startledcod • 8 hours ago
West Sussex was horrendous, one chair in my pergola was leaning against the table and another had blown over all together.
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nathaniel @startledcod • 7 hours ago
You think that's bad? Here in Surrey my wheelie bin lid was literally blown open.
Of course, all trains to London are cancelled.
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at_the_round_table @nathaniel • 6 hours ago
You think that's bad? I was smacked in the face by a leaf on my to the shops. If that had been a branch and I had been holding a baby whilst wearing roller boots we could have both ended up in A&E.
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TRAV1S • 8 hours ago
It was Armageddon this morning, a bin fell over in the garden.
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Vlad_the_Inhaler @TRAV1S • 8 hours ago
All very funny but I saw a man in the depths of despair this morning because he couldn't get his cigarette to light.
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It appears that senior BBC editors have now rushed Orla Guerin and Fergal Keane back to the UK to pull doleful, award-winning faces whilst interviewing some poor, distressed family whose fence has been damaged by the unrelenting force of Nature. O the humanity!