THIS is the shocking moment a flying shed swept up in Storm Eowyn almost hit a mum and daughter.
Louise Haggarty was leaving her house in Wrexham, North Wales, to take nine-year-old Lily to school on Friday.
This is the moment a flying shed almost hit a mum and daughter
Footage showed the metal structure hurling through the air
Louise Haggarty was leaving her house with her nine-year-old Lily
A neighbour’s CCTV camera captured footage of the metal structure hurling through the air.
It shows the pair leaving their Caia Park home before going to their car parked a few yards away.
Seconds later, a shed from across the street crashes just outside Louise’s front gate.
She said: “I was taking my daughter to school due to the wind being so bad.
“If we had come out of the house seconds later the shed would of hit us both.
“Watching the CCTV back its made me so sad and upset to think we could have been seriously hurt.
“People need to be very careful when going out. I feel so lucky we were unharmed.”
Winds reached 100mph as Storm Eowyn left one person dead, more than a million people without power and caused significant travel disruption across the UK and Ireland.
Rail services, flights and ferries have been cancelled across the country as rare red weather warnings are in place on Friday in Scotland.
A previous red warning covering Northern Ireland has been downgraded to amber.
A gust of 100mph was recorded at Drumalbin in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, the strongest gust so far today in the UK, the Met Office said.
In Ireland, a record-breaking wind speed of 183kmh (114mph) was measured in Mace Head, Co Galway on Friday morning, Met Eireann said.
Police in Ireland said a man had died after a tree fell on his car in Raphoe, County Donegal.
Police Scotland said its officers had responded to around 1,500 weather-related incidents across the country related to Storm Eowyn by 6pm on Friday.
Several trees, some more than 60 years old, have been uprooted or split in half because of high winds.
On Friday, about 20 per cent of all flights scheduled to operate to or from airports in the UK or Ireland have been cancelled, according to Aviation analytics company Cirium.
A total of 1,124 flights have been cancelled, and Dublin, Edinburgh, Heathrow and Glasgow airports are the worst affected, according to the company.
Satellite imagery suggests a dangerous weather phenomenon known as a sting jet developed over Ireland, the Met Office has said.
A sting jet is a small area of very intense winds, according to the weather service.
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PAA roof blown off during strong winds rests on some bungalows in Amble, Northumberland[/caption]
PAAn ambulance attends the scene of a crash during strong winds on the north bound A19[/caption]
EPAA fallen tree blown over in the wind during storm Eowyn in Belfast[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
