The most famous flying wheelie bin on Leith Walk

Leith was battered by winds greater than 100mph today, leading the Police to call on people to avoid travelling and the MET office to declare a "red alert." Some roads were blocked in the area, with lot's of people on Twitter reporting damage to their property. 

Sandervdd, took this youtube video of a wheelie bin flying down Leith Walk:  

Within hours of it being posted, hundreds of people had viewed it.

Grant Mason also shared this photo of another flying wheelie bin, below, that took out a fence at Lambs House, just off the Shore. He also shared photos of structural damage to the Waterline pub, and damage to the signs on the Kirkgate branch of Boots.

A bus stop was uprooted out of the ground near Sainbury's at Meadowbank. Seumus took this photo. 

Concerns over debris getting blown off the old Co-operative building on Great Junction Street forced Police to close the road and divert all the traffic. Stephen took this photo. 

Local councillor Rob Munn, also spent the day surveying his ward and updating people on the storm damage he found. This included shop windows that had been blown in, downed traffic lights at Seafield Street, blown over fences in Western Harbour, blown over railings on Madeira Street and a fallen tree in Leith Links. He used the hashtag #leithstorm

Meanwhile there were countless other stories of advertising banners, rubbish, fences, sheds and roof slates being blown all over the place, with a few reports of cars being damaged by all the flying debris.

It will not be a happy new year for insurance companies. 

We put together a much more detailed review of the damage caused by the storm using Storify. You can find that here: 

http://www.greenerleith.org/greener-leith-news/2012/1/4/leith-takes-stock-of-the-storm-damage.html