23/10/2026
⚠️ STORM SAFETY NOTICE PLEASE READ AND SHARE ⚠️
🌧️💨 SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED ACROSS SCOTLAND – ARE YOU PREPARED?
From everyone at Evolution Maintenance Services Ltd, we’re urging people across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Scotland to take a few minutes now to prepare for the severe weather heading our way.
The Met Office has issued yellow and amber weather warnings, with Storm Boelo expected to bring strong winds, heavy rain and the potential for fallen trees, dangerous driving conditions, damage to property and power cuts.
🕒 WHEN IS THE WORST WEATHER EXPECTED?
The latest forecast indicates that conditions could deteriorate from Saturday, with the strongest winds expected overnight into Sunday and continuing through much of Sunday, 25 October.
Please keep checking the latest Met Office weather warnings, as timings and local conditions can change.
🏠 10 THINGS TO DO BEFORE THE STORM HITS
✅ 1. Stock up on essentials. If it’s safe to do so, get drinking water, food that doesn’t require cooking, essential medication, baby supplies and pet food. Try to avoid unnecessary journeys once conditions worsen.
🔋 2. Charge everything now. Fully charge your mobile phones, power banks, torches and any essential battery-powered equipment. Keep charging cables handy.
🔦 3. Prepare for a power cut. Have torches, spare batteries and a battery-powered radio ready. Keep candles and matches or a lighter somewhere accessible if needed, but use candles only as a last resort, never leave them unattended, and keep them well away from curtains and other flammable materials.
🧣 4. Get warm clothing and blankets ready. Gather extra blankets, warm layers and bedding in case your heating stops working. Think about anyone in your household who may struggle in a cold home.
🌳 5. Secure your garden and outdoor belongings. If it is safe to do so before the winds strengthen, secure or bring in garden furniture, bins, trampolines and loose items that could become dangerous flying debris. Stay away from trees and branches during high winds.
🚗 6. Avoid unnecessary travel. Fallen trees, debris, flooding and dangerous gusts can make roads hazardous. Please don’t drive through floodwater, and never put yourself at risk to make a journey.
🏡 7. Check your home. Close windows and doors, check that you have essential supplies and make sure you know how to report a power cut. Keep emergency items somewhere you can reach them easily.
📱 8. Keep your phone and emergency contacts handy. Save important telephone numbers now. If mobile networks or internet services are disrupted, you may not be able to look them up when you need them.
❤️ 9. CHECK ON YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT.
Please take a moment to phone elderly relatives, vulnerable friends and neighbours BEFORE the worst of the weather arrives.
Ask them:
• Have they got enough food, drinking water and essential medication?
• Do they have blankets, warm clothing, a torch and a charged phone?
• Do they have someone they can contact if their electricity or heating goes off?
• Is there anything they need help arranging before conditions worsen?
If you have an elderly relative living alone, or a neighbour who may need extra support, please don’t assume someone else is checking on them.
10. MAKE A PLAN TO CHECK ON EACH OTHER. ❤️
Arrange with a trusted family member, friend or immediate neighbour to check in on anyone who may be vulnerable if the power goes out or telephone services become unavailable.
Exchange telephone numbers now, agree who will check on whom, and decide how you will make contact if phones and internet services fail.
If it becomes unsafe to drive, you may not be able to reach someone quickly. A simple plan made today could make a real difference tomorrow.
⚡ IMPORTANT: DOWNED POWER LINES AND FALLEN TREES
Following severe weather, please remember:
❌ NEVER approach or touch a fallen power line, even if it looks harmless or isn’t moving.
❌ NEVER attempt to move a fallen tree or branch that is touching, or may be near, electrical wires.
❌ NEVER assume a damaged cable is safe.
✅ Keep well away, warn others to stay clear if you can do so safely, and report dangerous electrical hazards to 105 – the UK power cut and emergency electricity number.
☎️ If there is an immediate threat to life, call 999.
🌊 PLEASE ALSO BE FLOOD AWARE. Avoid flooded roads, paths and underpasses, and follow local authority and emergency service advice.
🤝 LET’S LOOK AFTER OUR COMMUNITIES.
Storms can cause more than property damage. For someone who is elderly, living alone, disabled or reliant on electricity for essential equipment, a power cut can be particularly difficult.
Please share this post with your family, friends and local community. Check on the people around you, prepare your home and help anyone who may need a little extra support.
A quick phone call, a few extra supplies or an agreed welfare check could make all the difference.
From all of us at Evolution Maintenance Services Ltd, please stay safe, stay prepared and look after one another. ❤️
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