Storm Dennis was wetter than the previous weekend’s Storm Ciara, but it was not as windy or damaging.
The smaller tides meant that the island had a lucky miss from the sort of problems experienced in the UK.
Residents still battened down the hatches, sand bags were out along the east and west coasts.
A spokesman for the Guernsey Met Office said the weekend’s highest wind gust was around 46mph, recorded in the early hours of Sunday.
That was not as high as the wind gusts recorded during Storm Ciara, when high tides lined up with the worst of the conditions, compounding the problems.
At the airport yesterday flights were landing and taking off, but delays dominated the arrivals and departures board.
At the harbour, sailings were cancelled, including today’s Liberation sailings, but the Commodore Clipper and the Commodore Goodwill were forecast to be operating.
A tree came down in the Fosse Andre yesterday lunchtime and the road was blocked so the police closed it. It reopened during the afternoon.
The island’s situation was a lot different to that of England and Wales where flood warnings reached an all-time record, with 594 in place yesterday afternoon.
Evacuations took place across the country as flooding hit homes.
Rare, severe red warnings were in place in Worcester, Scotland and Wales, and the Met Office also issued amber alerts – meaning people had to be prepared to change plans and protect themselves and their family from the storm – for parts of Yorkshire, Wales, Devon, East Sussex and Kent.
The military was deployed yesterday to build flood defences in West Yorkshire in areas where people were still struggling to repair their homes after the floods caused by Storm Ciara.
Experts had warned that Storm Dennis would cause significant flooding damage because already saturated ground was meeting with a ‘perfect storm’ of heavy rain, melting snow and strong winds.
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