Well, when I had a 15foot rota fm aerial on the chimney stack, then both
wind and thunderstorms did make me worry, but as neither seemed to affect
the thing other than wind making it sing a bit, I guess I soon got over it.
I had to take it down when the rotator got dead spots and kept getting
stuck, by that time the use of a direct aerial on TV and fm was really
pointless, since there were too many strong local signals and all the TV
regions were showing the same crap. I do still have the log periodic TV
aerial in a shed, but I doubt it will get used as its insulated u bracket
seems to have been taken by the fairies.



Have you ever heard the term Wind up their tails? Many animals seem to get
very strange behaviours when its windy, but for us, there is always going to
be that niggling doubt that something may break on the house. Luckily, my
windows open up with a very very strong hinge at the top, and retaining arms
on the bottom so apart from rain blowing in, nothing much can happen to them
Likewise, the loft is kind of see through, ie you can see out between the
tiles, they are all the same round here, and it seems to not have any
detrimental effect except one year when we had the wrong kind of snow, and
myself and my father had to use buckets to remove it before it melted and
wet the lagging and ceilings under it.
Brian

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There's a recognised phobia of wind, I don't think i'm at that level, i'm
not curled up in the foetal position but I am in my office in the loft at
work and the gusts are making me tense up.

Didn't sleep very well last night with gusts hammering the house.
I've lived there 20+ years and it's a windy spot but in all that time the
only issues we've had are a couple of lost slates (and several flattened
green cheap greenhouses).
It doesn't help that I was out at 5.30am recently collecting the contents
of our recycling bin from the street in a gale/****ing down rain.

I get particularly stressed with open windows and have to have them all
shut, especially so if we are away from home. I dare myself to leave them
open to (hopefully) demonstrate that they aren't going going to be torn
off but I panic and buckle.

Just wondering how common this is, is anyone else bothered in this way?