was about two hours ago. i was here then and the wind was much calmer. people here were fearing that if there had been a combination of those 60 70mph winds and a high tide, a spring tide, overfive metres high, if those two things had happened at the same time there was concern on the seafront for properties here. there are sandbags out near front doors, trying to hopefully keep the worse of any water that would have got over to that side out of cellars. that didn t happen, thankfully. the wind has picked up maybe in the last half an hour or so, but it is still very strong. we are sheltering here by the bandstand out of the worst of the wind, but as i was walking across to get here earlier i was feeling the resistance from the very, very strong wind. that is a sense that this may not be as bad as people feared, that eunice may not be as bad as some other storms we ve had in aberystwyth over the years. storm barra just before christmas caused damage to the promenade just along the way t