Thursday ( 08-12-2011) saw a huge storm across Scotland and the UK with strong damaging winds with gusts of 165mph over the Cairngorm mountains and 137mph at Aonach Mor on the Ben Nevis Range.
We had attempted a trip to Fort William but were forced to turn back after the A82 road closed mid morning with dozens of trees falling. On the return journey at least a dozen further trees had fallen in our pathway within 30 minutes. These are a few of the photo's my passenger took as we negotiated our journey!
Can you see the crushed bus shelter above?
Back at Serendipity we lost the electric for 34hrs :-(
The temperature rose considerably preceding the storm and you can see by the photo's, the several inches of snow that we'd had on lower ground soon vanished! (but for how long?)
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