Do you remember "The Great Storm" of October 1987? Where were you and what were you doing when it hit?

Question

The storm hit the U.K. on the night of Thursday, October 15th 1987. 15 million trees were destroyed and many people were killed (for more information watch "Britain's BIggest Storm" on ITV on Tuesday night).

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Answer 1

i was ten years old. I was sleeping peacefully until my dad woke me and told me to come downstairs. When I opened my eyes, I realised that the roof to my bedroom had in fact disappeared!! We spent 3 days at my creepy grandparents, (they had gas) and school was cancelled for five days! Bonus.

We were in Berkshire, near where Gordon Kaye (Rene in allo allo) was hit by a falling tree.

my dad tells me a light aircraft had to do an emergency landing in our field, and he took them some coffee and pies.

Remember I was 10 and thought it was fab!! I have never since experienced such a storm.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I remember it vividly, I was living at home on the south coast of Cornwall and my Dad was still a Coastguard back then. He was a very busy boy that night and I was terrified. Our conservatory was smashed, the shed was destroyed, the garden was ripped apart, and we lost about 50 tiles off the roof. We had chickens at the time and we were filling up buckets and anything we could find with water in the pouring rain and howling wind to put on top of the chicken house to stop it blowing away.
My Mum got some fantastic photos of the sea crashing over the cliffs, the waves reached over the top of the light house at Mevagissey. Thankfully my Dad came home safe and there were no fatalities on his watch.

Answer 4

I remember..I was 18 and living with my parents.
We were having the house extended and at that time I had no bedroom so I was sleeping in a caravan down the side of the house.....I coped for a while but then the winds got too much and I had to sleep in the hallway of the half built house lol.
I also remember watching the greenhouse 'dancing' around the garden and my silly parents going out with their new camcorder to film the devastation.....

Answer 5

No, but you are in the right month but in 1962, the Pacific Northwest had what we call a great wind storm, winds at various locations were, Cape Blanco, 120, Portland, 116, Eugene 86, and there is a place in Northwest Washington that had winds of 160, the central pressure was 28.35

Answer 6

I was camping at Lands end! I was in a new tent and by morning it had been buffeted about all night and was letting rainwater in like a sieve. I was hacked off and determined to take it back to the shop, then I crawled out and saw it was in fact the only tent to have survived! Caravans and motor homes were scattered around on their sides or roofs, all the other tents were in rags! I decided it wasn't too bad a design after all!

Answer 7

I was in a club having a few beers,
when i came out .the butchers shop window had been smashed by the winds, when i got home half of the tiles had blown of my house roof. On the telly earlier the weather man had said
there was no need to worry as the weather was not going to be severe Michael Fish was his name, he has never been allowed to forget that Gaff.

Answer 8

I remember it well,we lived in Essex. We were at home in bed and we got up and watched it from our bedroom windows. The overhead electric cables on the railway line were blowing into each other and sparking off like lightning, and opposite us the lead on the roof of the supermarket was rolled up into neat rolls from the back towards the front and they were extremely heavy.There were trees down everywhere. Nowadays it is difficult to see where it all happened.

Answer 9

I was in it - got called to work coz the initial hit took the roof off of my workplace - so I had to go in and shut the alarms off - not pretty I can tell you - trees all over the gaff - crates flying around - the odd road sign flying thru the air -

Answer 10

i was in bed as it was between 2 6 am in the morning i remember i was under the duvay at its worst i thought the windows were going to blow in i was living in a crappy council house at the time with single glazed window,s with rotten wood surrounding them i also lived a long side a cut way with really tall tree,s and they were creaking along side the house just across the way one of those tree,s fell in someone garden and missed the house by inches that's my reselection of that night it was something else i can,t wait until that programme on tue night