Were you a victim of storm Eowyn?

With Storm Eowyn battering the UK, it’s never too early to think about how you can get compensation out of it. Eowyn can be your friend and you can get free money and that’s the best sort of money.

First, Power, are there power lines down in your area, has your electricity shut off?

Don’t worry about those guys outside your window dangling from cherry pickers or ladders’ risking their lives to restore the power, time is money - and it's not time's money, it's yours.

Get your clock out, your stopwatch, a sun dial, even an egg timer, log exactly to the second how long you were without electricity. The longer the time, the bigger the claim. You could be sunning yourself in Corfu on the proceeds and most important of all, remember, you are entitled.

Putting in your claim is often the best part. Call handlers may try to ask you to e mail them your compensation claim, don’t fall for it. Shout, scream down the telephone, abuse them and threaten them. Tell them you want your money and you want it now, a cheeky little death threat can work wonders.

Travel can also be a lucrative source of Compo. You wanted to take a train to work but the Train operators decided being snowflakes that it was too dangerous to run the service. Make them pay.

The fact that you were under your table crying and begging for help when the storm raged is irrelevant. You had a ticket but instead of driving the train ,risking derailment ,drivers thinking only of themselves were warm and snug at home, just lazy and you can claim more lovely compo.

Author: tonymc

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Concerns soothed during transit of Storm Eowyn

Met Office told to change silly names of storms

The Meteorological Office is being urged to stop using insensitive names for storms in the UK.

The move follows deaths and damage caused by Storm Bert over the past week.

Weather experts have come under increasing pressure – and not just from the atmosphere – to change the names of storms to reflect the harm they cause.

A spokeswoman for the think-tank Who Came Up With These said: 'Recently we’ve also had Storm Agnes, Gerrit and Debi. Those are names for pet hamsters, not catastrophic weather events.

'We need titles with more gravitas. How about Storm Fury, Storm Rage or Storm My Fence Has Blown Down And I Have No Insurance?'

Who Came Up With These offered a further suggestion: 'The Met Office should consider changing its name to the Meteoro-illogical Office.'

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