Ophelia: First Deaths

Trees.

From the Irish Independent:

Storm Ophelia claims first victims as woman killed by falling tree; man killed using chainsaw

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Ophelia Nationwide: Fallen trees, flying debris and no electricity - regional updates

From yesterday's "As Hurricane Ophelia Continues On Track to Ireland and Scotland, A Quick Look Back At The Great Storm of October 15-16, 1987":

...Trees.
It seems that trees loom large in the collective memory.
Almost every account mentions the trees. Gorleston Norfolk had a 122 mph wind gust. Here's Norwich's Eastern Daily Press in 2012:

With an estimated 15 million trees blown down by gales of over 90mph in the south-east of England, the timber market was all of a sudden flushed with stock that threatened to see the trade’s worth plummet.

And those were just the words.
The pics are...amazing....