Plenty of damage was done by Storm Eunice in Bristol, with fallen trees, damaged power lines, roads closed and widespread disruption - but one person had a particularly lucky escape in the howling winds yesterday.
As the winds rushed through the city at upwards of 50mph, a towering tree in Redcliffe, near Temple Meads Station, became unstable. It came crashing down as employees who were working in the building opposite helplessly looked on.
As you can see in the photos, the tree was just "inches" from crushing the car parked right beneath it. Ben Paddy told Bristol Live that he was having a meeting with his colleagues in the boardroom of his office on Portwall Lane when, all of a sudden, someone caught a glimpse of the tree falling in their peripheral vision.
