Happy Hurricane Anniversary

[Trigger]

25 years...

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/category_id__1033_path__0p116p183p.aspx

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[The Large One]

Holy moly - 25 years...

 

[Stat Brother]

Slept right through it.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

25 years...

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/category_id__1033_path__0p116p183p.aspx

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was it classed as a hurricane

 

[SeagullSongs]

was it classed as a hurricane

It was only 11 on the Beaufort index wasn't it?

 

[The Spanish]

our shed lifted up and smashed through next doors fence into their garden, whole. like something out the f***ing wizard of oz.

 

[LE19]

Slept right through it.

As did my wife.

I spent the whole night listening to tiles coming off and waiting for the roof the cave in. As it happens, mine was the only house in the street that didn't lose any tiles!

 

[pornomagboy]

I was only 1

 

[Surrey Seagull]

Slept right through it.

I wish I could of slept through it! I was living in Wimbledon at the time and the houses in the street had a linked fire alarm system in them which could only be deactivated by the fire brigade. The alarms were so loud, you couldn't stay in the houses so we had to wait in the street for the fire brigade. Despite the fact the houses backed onto the fire station itself, it took them a long time to finally reach us with all the emergency call outs they had that night.

 

[Daffy Duck]

We lived at Fiveways at the time and we were lucky in that the only damage was our TV aerial blown down.
But when we looked up Ditchling Road, the damage was horrendous. Loads of huge trees blown down and it was the same down Preston drove.

I had to climb over massive tree trunks blown down across the road to get to work in Hove. The Level looked like the aftermath of a war zone. It was very sad to see all those beautiful old trees demolished all over the town.

Luckily it happened in the early hours of the morning otherwise there would have been loads of people killed or injured.

 

[The Large One]

Our next door neighbours - for whatever reason - had two sheets of corrugated iron tethered together in their back garden. They didn't fly away, but did spend the entire night banging against each other.

The worst damage to our house was some grubby windows.

I was working in an office in St Peter's Place in those days, and walked down the road, past the Level, to see... Hanover. There were no trees in the way. By the time I got to St Peter's Place, I saw that the big tree from the north garden of St Peter's Church had blown over - towards St Peter's Place. It had missed our office by about 20 feet. Hardly anyone made it into work.

The thing I also remember in the subsequent weeks was that the telephone networks were completely bollocksed up. We would get phone calls in our office, asking for the Head Quantity Surveyor at Leicestershire County Council...

 

[KZNSeagull]

Are you sure it wasn't the Great Storm?

 

[Brovion]

I listened to the tiles crashing off our roof all night, luckily that was the worst. At the time my dad was living in Sutton,Surrey in a very wooded street and there were trees crashing down all around him. He said it was the most scared he'd been since the Blitz.

 

[Gazwag]

Slept right through it.

As did I in a hotel in London as I was working up there. I was due to catch the train home to Bexhill the following lunchtime, but couldn't so I ended up spending the afternoon wandering round looking at all the damage and spent an extra night at the hotel.

 

[8ace]

was it classed as a hurricane

Hurricane force but not an actual hurricane.

 

[cloud]

Tried to drive into Poly that morning, but couldn't get past the Steine for all the trees

 

[Landgull]

Slept right through it.

I slept right through it also. We could form a club: The What Hurricane Club. LOL.

 

[Easy 10]

One of our neighbours aviaries got blown over, so the next morning we had the slightly surreal sight of numerous colourful exotic tropical parrots and parakeets sitting around on the roofs and telephone wires.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

My best friend got married on the Friday morning, and as is right and proper we had the Stag night on the Thursday night.

I remember talking to the taxi driver on the way home about how windy it was, but apart from waking up to no Electricity I don't remember much else.

The marriage lasted less than a year, so maybe the storm was some kind of omen!

 

[banjo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqs1YXfdtGE