A Swansea man found his neighbours' concrete wall blown over during Storm Eunice.
Matthew Higgs, who lives in the Mount Pleasant area of Swansea, had taken his dog out into the garden when he was confronted by his neighbour’s concrete wall having blown over in the wind - thankfully missing his car.
“I turned the corner and there was just no fence there,” Matthew told WalesOnline.
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Matthew, 25, initially thought his neighbours had decided to take out the wall, which was topped by a wooden fence.
“I looked again and it was on the floor,” he said.
“The concrete block had collapsed and just completely fallen apart, the wooden fence was thrown all over the place. I don’t even know how that’s possible, but apparently it is.
“A concrete wall has just collapsed under wind and I can’t believe that’s possible.”
The zoology student went into his garden at about 9.45am on Friday morning and says he is unsure when the wall, which he remembers being built two years ago, came down.
“I’m surprised I didn’t hear it - my bedroom is right next to where it happened,” he said.
“I felt thankful it didn’t collapse onto my car to be honest, because my car is about five feet away."
He said that, had the wall blown the other way into his garden, it could have damaged the car.
“I also feel sorry for the neighbours, because now they have to deal with fixing it and paying out money for something that wasn’t their fault.”
Matthew, who lives in the house on his own, described what the storm had been like in his area of Swansea.
“The trees are bending in ways I didn’t know they could bend,” he said.
“My dogs did not like it because they were barking at the wind thinking that something was happening.”
Matthew says he will need to go out later on in the day to run errands, but is “not looking forward” to it.
“I suspect that I’ll be thrown across the town centre,” he said.
“Vulnerable people who can barely walk as it is - maybe they don’t have transport and they have to walk with maybe walking frames and crutches - they’re not going to have a good time, are they? They’re going to be all over the place.”
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