So how bad was the storm?

Its not often (or indeed EVER!) that I get home from work looking like a drowned rat and my boots take 2 days to dry out...At least I'd pulled them off before I discovered the water running down the bedroom wall  :(

Three soggy bath towels and a day working from home because there were no trains later, we decided to keep mopping up, stick with the plans to see relatives over the holidays and sort it all out when we got back.

There was an unexpected break in the general clouds and dreariness so we decided to take a stroll along the Hogsmill ...to see if some fresh air and sun shine would cheer us up.....

We didn't get very far before the scale of the previous week's storm became apparent...

Every bend in the river had gained a scarf of debris washed down from higher upstream...

 

In the sunshine some of the damage was almost picturesque...

Even big trees were ripped like sheets of paper....

We kept looking up and playing "spot where the branch came from"...

No one will be playing with this tree again in a while...well, certainly not to climb..

This one was simply ripped out by its roots.....

Although most were merely folded over, maybe the wind will be back again later to play with them again...

 Don't be fooled by all the sunshine it was really fresh and cold...look even at 3pm in the afternoon there was still frost...

 

 

Right, I'm pretty sure we've walked far enough to earn a slice of Christmas cake with a cuppa..time for home!