By mid afternoon frontier spirit was palpably waning, along with everyone's phone batteries. By early evening there wasn't much to do except agree that obviously we have it easy compared with Ukraine.
Emma Pinchbeck, the chief executive of the independent Climate Change Committee, warns that Britain is nowhere near ready for the chaos that shifting weather patterns could bring.
The novelty of lighting candles, chopping firewood and making coffee on a sputtering camping stove carried everyone through the first few hours.
Too much of our essential infrastructure wasn't built to withstand the conditions seen last weekend, which implies more power outages and more disrupted travel.
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