A restaurant manager said he was worried for people’s safety after Storm Darragh caused the roof of a nearby building to partly detach.
Part of Knightstone Road in Weston Super Mare was closed off after pieces of an RNLI station were left flapping around.
Jimi, 33, who was working in the Il Michelangelo restaurant situated on the road, said: ‘If [the roof] does come off, God knows where it’s going to land. Hopefully it rips off smoothly and goes on the floor without causing any damage to anybody. We are worried for people more (than the restaurant).’
A number of local businesses in the town are closed today while others had signs in their windows stating they would open in the evening.
But Jimi said most of his bookings were looking ‘pretty positive’ despite the nearby hazard.
He added: ‘With the evening bookings, we have a couple of cancellations (but) a couple of other people wanted to come in at the moment, so nothing has changed.
‘I have big tables confirmed. Some of them have dropped the numbers but at the moment it doesn’t seem like a crazy change.’
