They also had a few snapped/damaged electricity posts across parts of the road.
It was bad enough here and that's some 50 miles from the coast and quite sheltered, the northern bank of the river is about 200 ft high and quite steep, even so the bottom of the garden was littered with debris from the woods and some bits were quite large enough to give a very bad headache.
Anywhere exposed to the north would have got getting on for 90 mph gusts, I tried walking over the Carneddau plateau in 40/50mph and gave up because the collie couldn't keep her paws gripping the, admittedly snowy, ground.
I don't mind Tan hill milking it for a bit of PR but they almost certainly knew what was coming but still put the band and their customers at some risk, it probably would have been much less fun if the wind and snow had been a few hours earlier, driving in drifting snow is silly at the best of times, in darkness it's quite close to madness.
Jim