I think naming storms has been a backward step. Customers were telling me a storm was due, so was I sure about cleaning?
The storm centre passed over central Scotland, the best part of 500 miles north of here, roughly as far away as Bordeaux.
Previously the weather forecast would have said Scotland's in for some stormy weather and moved on. But because they now name the buggers and give it a big build up in the news (not just in the weather bulletin), everyone knew there was a huge storm coming in to hit us.
Vin