Hang on to your plants !

I miss living by the coast NE in my case. my childhood home was 5 mins walk from the door into the sea at high tide or on the sand at low tide.
used to go and watch the storms roll in off the sea, especially thunder storms. we'd sit in the Victorian promenade pavilions keeping safe and dry for hours. in fact as a child we were on the beach nearly every day, either playing or walking the dog.

my local pier Roker, was on Countryfile last Sunday. made me very nostalgic.

I grew up in the country, was very lucky. Best way with
containers is to group them all together and surround with old bricks or bits of broken concrete paving slab.

One of the advantages of terracotta pots is that they don't blow over so easily, even though they dry out faster!
We live far enough inland (4 miles) to miss the salt spray but still get the strong winds...Diane's suggestion for other types is really the only one that works here.

I love to see the sea when it's rough. I think it looks boring on a summer's day ...
I'm sorry the wind has blown things over for you.
We get a lot of winds here - it's very hilly and the wind gets funnelled up the valleys. I often have to put things the right way up after a windy day.

I don't live near the coast but have lost count of how many times I've had to clear the branches and twigs up this past few months, all my outside pots are back against the walls and g'house, all bunched up together for safety, we keep hearing warnings of branches on the roads, only today our local paper is reporting on a huge stack that has blown from one of the chimneys at the local Cement Works, luckily no-one was working below but it could have been very nasty.....

We are bracing for ridiculously icy cold temperatures this week that will freeze your eyelids shut.

Better keep your thermals handy Paul.....

Oh Bathgate that doesnt sound ideal....please do not send it over here, I have not got enough logs in lol

We get the 'polar vortex.' It dips down from the arctic. I'm not sure if you get them, but lot's of hot coffee, tea, chocolate is on order. It's so brutal, the City advised everybody to stay indoors until Monday.

Oh that does sound serious.... We have a cold snap on the way....but nothing like your weather....