We've had weather warnings over the weekend telling us to expect strong with damaging gusts in the early hours of Monday. The main problems are going to be coastal regions, where it also comes at the same time as high spring tides and they're expecting flooding.
But, I thought it was better not to take the chance, so last night at around 7pm, I dropped my turbine down, took off the tail and secured the blades. This isn't as big a job as it sounds. My turbine is on top of some scafold pole and that pole is secure to its mount by two U bolts, undoing 4 nuts drops the height by about 6 feet and takes it out of the wind (no, its very high up). Undoing 2 screw clamps lets me take the tail out. The whole thing took less than ten minutes working in the dark.
This morning it didn't seem half as bad as they said it might be, and I feel as if I chickened out a little. I suppose it's best to look like you're acting responsibly when you're running something like that in a built up area that to take the risk.
