Surprisingly, no.
Well, my aunt (this was the WW2 aunt), had been asking my mother to visit her for ages, (they hadn't met for a few years but were in constant touch by phone), and my mother - who had quite literally just returned from a foreign holiday a few days earlier - decided to pay a visit to her sister prior to returning to work, which would have kept her busy for the following months.
In fairness, they were both astonishingly blasé about it, - meanwhile, my father (safe at home) was having kittens with worry - but the pair of them - in a supercool, supremely casual way, just 'got on with it', and shrugged it all off. I suspect that there was a part of my mother that thought the whole thing hilarious - her timing really was quite extraordinary, but she rarely voiced that thought.
Meanwhile, and entirely understandably, my aunt's main concern was falling or unsafe trees; driving wasn't the issue - and, in normal conditions, my mother would simply have taken the train, but public transport had been cancelled. Anyway, I recall that my aunt had to take many detours, to avoid stuff such as fallen trees,- which delayed her further - before she arrived at Heathrow to pick up my mother.
