. >> yeah, i mean storm hank okay, fine. it's a storm.ickly. get big winds, we quickly. we get big winds, we get that of itself, it get rain. that of itself, it seems to me, john, is not particularly unusual. what does seem me to be very unusual is seem to me to be very unusual is that, i mean, certainly talking from kent, where i was over the christmas holidays, it seemed we had a gale of 40 miles an hour virtually every single day, and heavy rain. just how exceptional has this period been? it just it sort of it feels that it's almost unending . almost unending. >> well, you're probably right. it does feel that way, but it isn't unprecedented by any means. i think we can go back into the second half of the 1990s in particular, round about to 2000, and it was just the same then round about the christmas period running up to new year's eve. we did see some heavy gales across many days for several of those years, so we did see that sort of pattern before. it just depends really, how the jet stream gets locked in across the country and what'