‘Dad’s taped the bins to the wall!’ Social media is flooded with hilarious memes as Brits batten down the hatches for Storm Eowyn [Video]

02:55 EST 24 Jan 2025, updated 07:13 EST 24 Jan 2025

Hilarious photos of bins taped to the wall by an extra careful dad are one of hundreds of memes that have flooded social media as Storm Eowyn batters Britain.

A daughter took to X – formerly Twitter – to share the innovative solution amid some of the strongest gusts in Britain’s history.

Documenting the strategy, she went on to deem it a success, saying: ‘Haven’t slept till 3am and I keep getting up to look out the window … rubbish is flowing all over the road but not from our bins!!!’

It comes as the potentially deadly storm hit Britain with hurricane-force winds at 6am, with millions of receiving an emergency phone alert warning treacherous conditions pose an ‘extreme and real’ threat to life.

One person, John McCullough, responded to the post by saying: ‘This coming storm will blow bins about.’

But the daughter replied: ‘Not these ones obviously.’

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