Well that’s one for Storm Doris! She has caused the 5 metre wooden pole holding the TV aerial and weather station to SNAP! It came down across the roof of our garage with one loud thump!!
Pole-down
Snapped-off-at-the-roof
Broken-Aerial
It made a little hole in our rubber membrane in one spot where the metal aerial frame jabbed in and that’s it! No damage to the OSB boards themselves so that’s good.
Patched-roof
We patched up the little tear with a quick job with a piece of aluminium tape to make it last a little while before we do a proper repair using our special rubber glues and a rubber patch. Then we moved the TV aerial and the pole over to jam it in the gap between the garage and our living quarters for safe keeping against Doris’s Blows!
The TV aerial is bent and broken and some of the weather station equipment is smashed to pieces but we think it is the old one that suffered and not our newer one! Phew!
The steel framework of the house is only jiggering and moving a little bit in the strongest gusts, it is our scaffolding towers that are feeling the pressure. They are slowly walking and promenading across the concrete!!
The Camera pole is holding very nicely and the flood light is only wiggling a little bit.
Only a few more hours to go .. Come On Storm Doris, just you blow away – grin!
P.S. The pole with the house name board on it has just snapped off as well.