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Hurricane Bawbag
Today, Thursday 8th December 2011, Property Repair have received a record claim volume due to the chaos caused by the recently titled 'Hurricane Bawbag'. We consider ourselves the leading Insurance Repairs company for Central Scotland and have today just assisted two additional Insurance Clients, who's panels we hadn't previously featured on. Without our help today in accepting these claims the insurers would have found it near impossible to manage their policyholders expectations.
Storms hitting Scotland have placed the country on 'Red alert'; the highest level of Met Office weather warning. Winds are expected to reach 100mph later on today.
Scotland residents are being advised not to travel and some key bridges will be closed off as the gale-force storm hits. Police will be issuing updates throughout the day.
Travel chaos is expected as motorways become gridlocked and rail routes are delayed. Drivers have been told to look out for black ice on the roads.
Hurricane Bawbag was the colloquial name given to a storm passing over areas of the United Kingdom, mainly Scotland, during the week beginning 5 December 2011. On 8 December, winds reached up to 165 mph (265 km/h) which resulted in closure of many roads, bridges, schools and businesses.
On 7 December, the Met Office issued a red weather warning—its highest warning—and said there would be significant risk of structural damage. Police advised the public not to travel, and the Tay, Forth and Erskine bridges were closed to all traffic. As a result of the weather, many universities, schools and nurseries were closed. Public transport was also affected; many trains were cancelled or switched to a limited service, with buses running in place of trains due to line problems.
Hundreds of schools have been closed and power lines have been affected.
The Met Office has said there is a high risk of structural damage as winds batter Strathclyde, the central belt, Tayside, Lothians and the borders areas of Scotland.
The gale reached 107mph over Aonach Mor, near Ben Nevis, and 102mph over Glen Ogle in the Trossachs, but the storm is expected to peak around noon in Glasgow and 3pm in the east of the central belt, although high winds will last into the evening.
The country also looks set for up to 12 inches of snow as a drop in temperatures to -3°C is expected to bring blizzards.
The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has issued 11 flood alerts for locations across Scotland.
As Soctland's residents took to Twitter, the storm was renamed Hurricane Bawbag.
American hurricane namers are lazy. They pick easy ones like "George" and "Kate". Only in Scotland
could they come up with #HurricaneBawbag," tweeted one person
"#scotstorm now officially renamed #HurricaneBawbag + trending. Infinitely more Scottish+ immediately less scary," said another.