I live in Cornwall. We had the absolute tank of a storm earlier this year. Storm Gorretti. It starts getting blowy around 12pm then around 4pm-5pm it went dead silent, this was the eye of the storm passing over us. Once it was passed we took an absolute beating. I think the highest wind gust recorded was 120mph. People lost power and water for weeks, trees down and blocking roads absolutely every where. There's actually still roads blocked by trees they haven't gotten around to clearing yet and this was months ago. A friend of mine lost his entire roof off his house, he lives at the top of a hill, his roof was found 2 miles away down the bottom of the hill.

So anyway the moral of the story, if you in a named storm and it suddenly goes dead silent, use that time wisely to go and double check everything is secured before hiding back inside.