"R D S" wrote in message
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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?

I'm not. And I have a line of immense trees only 10' away from the long
side of the house and gales normally do come that direction, thru the
trees to the house and I do get small stuff coming off the trees onto
the flat metal decking roof in a big storm. And we have seen the one
mega storm in this town which brought down very large numbers of big
trees bring down one in the park only another 20' from my line of trees.

I only have sliding windows and patio doors, so the only downside with
them open is that papers etc do get blown around a bit in a big storm.