Millions of homes were without power after the 87 storm, and I imagine the damages were pretty high.
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Huge storms you've been caught up in
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October 2013 saw a huge storm across the South Coast, Channel and northern France. I was on holiday with my ex in Normandy and we had to transfer to Le Havre to catch a ferry as the Dieppe to Newhaven had been cancelled because it was unsafe for the smaller ferry. I've never ever experienced anything like that before. The boat tilting at what appeared to be 45 degrees and more for the entire journey and the noise from the waves hitting the boat. Goodness knows what it must be like down at the Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope.
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Insane weather - working in a factory with a tin roof - sounded like a plane crashing on us as it approached. Balls of ice like grapefruits smashing through the roof and torrents of water. Huge spiders from the rafters descending the walls to escape. The brick walls were the only safe places to stand against!!
Insane weather - working in a factory with a tin roof - sounded like a plane crashing on us as it approached. Balls of ice like grapefruits smashing through the roof and torrents of water. Huge spiders from the rafters descending the walls to escape. The brick walls were the only safe places to stand against!!
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Got caught up in the tail end of a hurricane when in Barbados and lived through a cyclone here a few years ago.
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Actually that reminds me of a time we were going to take a Sally Line from Ramsgate but they closed the port due to a force 10 storm warning, could see a ferry anchored off the coast as it was to stormy to come into port, so we went down to Dover and caught a ferry from there, I have to say it was probably the scariest trip across the channel ever.
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was living in a flat on Botany Bay back then .....we heard that storm coming in from the south , it sounded like a jumbo jet coming in , a friend who lived in Surry Hills got a 170k insurance pay out....his roof literally caved in after being smashed by hail stones like the ones in that picture.....there was a story about a guy who was out in a tin dinghy on the bay fishing alone....what a way to go...!!!
another time in Perth was driving up the coast when some rather evil looking clouds turned daylight into relative darkness....140mm of rain in less than an hour and over 3000 lightning strikes , one of which was my car...!!
sydney
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was living in a flat on Botany Bay back then .....we heard that storm coming in from the south , it sounded like a jumbo jet coming in , a friend who lived in Surry Hills got a 170k insurance pay out....his roof literally caved in after being smashed by hail stones like the ones in that picture.....there was a story about a guy who was out in a tin dinghy on the bay fishing alone....what a way to go...!!!
another time in Perth was driving up the coast when some rather evil looking clouds turned daylight into relative darkness....140mm of rain in less than an hour and over 3000 lightning strikes , one of which was my car...!!
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I remember one summers day, June, July time, probably back in the 80s when at midday the sky turned so black it looked like night time, the news even featured Gatwick airport in this 'black out', never seen anything like it.
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Another vote for Florida.
Ive seen some corkers in Australia and on the equator in Africa, but got caught in a thunderstorm outside Tampa that was biblical.I never thought so much rain could fall so heavily in one spot. To make matters worse i was on the interstate and all the traffic was clearly panicking including the truck drivers who continued to drive full pelt in the fast lane. The final straw was when my windscreen wipers packed in and i had to lean out the window and wipe down with my arm as i followed a line of barely visible red lights into what turned out to be a rest area.
Complete gibbering wreck.
You could set the clock by Floridian thunderstorms.
I was driving south on I-95 in Miami when it hit around 2pm.
The only thing to do was exit at the nearest point and that's what I did in North Miami and ended up on a shopping mall parking lot.
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Turned up at my sisters a soaked wreck and she said "oh yeah,forgot to say stay off the roads in the afternoon......it can get a bit wet"
About 10 years ago on a family trip to Jersey - we went on the catamaran from Poole and it was so rough that going outside was banned, the ship was going up and down like a tart's knickers and you could hear the bottles of perfume and alcohol flying off the shelves and smashing in the gift shop - I dread to think of the mess and smell when they opened that up.
It didn't help that we were held outside the harbour for an hour waiting for a berth when we did eventually get to Jersey.
It didn't help that we were held outside the harbour for an hour waiting for a berth when we did eventually get to Jersey.
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Travelling through storms. I remember a few more. First time I ever flew we were descending straight into an electrical storm, that was seriously scary, unfortunately, two weeks later coming home we flew through another one. I was never going to fly again after those experiences.
Another time flying from GSP to Atlanta, a 20 minute flight, so the plane never gets above the clouds, the storm was enormous and I seriously didn't think we'd make it. I was at the front so I could hear all the instruments going off in the cockpit. We dipped so many times I thought I'd shit myself. The woman sitting next to me actually grabbed me at one point where she thought we were going to our death.
Another time flying from GSP to Atlanta, a 20 minute flight, so the plane never gets above the clouds, the storm was enormous and I seriously didn't think we'd make it. I was at the front so I could hear all the instruments going off in the cockpit. We dipped so many times I thought I'd shit myself. The woman sitting next to me actually grabbed me at one point where she thought we were going to our death.
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Precisely! Sounded exactly like a low flying jumbo jet as the storm approached. I was working the evening shift in a junk mail factory out East in Sydenham/St Peters suburbs (Junkyville). Despite the drone of the machines all the workers dropped tools thinking a plane was crashing on us - then the skies opened! Truly apocalyptic - walking out after it had past felt a bit like that scene in 24 hours later - devastation.
Terrible wind in Robertsbridge last winter caused this!!
Winter 77-78ish,a two week blow in the Iceland gap, doing secret stuff, roughest sea I saw in 15 years at sea, no hot food, strapped into your bed to sleep, numerous injuries to the crew from being thrown about.
We got back to Rosyth, anything not actually welded to the ships superstructure had gone, the breakwaters on the forecastle(the sharp end) had been bent flat, and, the best bit, the barrels on both our 4.5 inch guns, the big ones on the front, were bent out of true. We had to have a six week mini re-fit.
We got back to Rosyth, anything not actually welded to the ships superstructure had gone, the breakwaters on the forecastle(the sharp end) had been bent flat, and, the best bit, the barrels on both our 4.5 inch guns, the big ones on the front, were bent out of true. We had to have a six week mini re-fit.
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I can see the lamps swinging, right now.
We were staying in Sile, Turkey on the Black sea coast (what a god forsaken place) ! There was this electric storm. We were in a hotel by the lighthouse. Only god knows what provisions had been made re evacuation of the building in the event of a fire. I remember wondering what use the bucket of sand on our landing would be in the event of an apocalyptic scenario. The fact the power went out was inconsequential. The forked lightning lit up the sky for what seemed like an eternity. I was scared shitless and had to consume the duty frees, using them as a sort of reality escape kit.