Father and son 'blown to Aller'
This was the scene on Langport Rec yesterday afternoon as an innocent father and son struggled to football practice at Huish Academy in a 2nd day of gale force winds across Somerset. Moments later the pair were picked up by a freak gust which, on its way across the parish, blew through the men's urinals at Eli's. The two were found hours later slumped against a lamp post in Aller being urinated on by an Afghan Hound.
Police say there've been countless other incidents:
- Lou Lou's had its first customer in over 6 months when an OAP was blown through its front window
- a box with 10 chocolate gateaus inside had the cobwebs blown off it behind a shed at The Langport Arms (they go on sale at the carvery this evening)
- several complaints have been received from people living on the Brooklands Road estate (Peony Valley) that the wind's so strong that they can actually smell Somerton
- and the wind's been blowing so hard that the giant letter T on the Tesco sign on the side of the Langport supermarket has come on for the first time since 2010.
Forecasters warn more rough weather's on the way.
The only local who has been enjoying this week's weather is this man, photographed yesterday morning at High Ham.
