The Great Storm Of 1987

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P100 Pick-up.

 

 

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[Junkman]

Aye, it was carnage here:

 

 

OMG, what a disaster! I hope no one got hurt.

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So THAT's how Pogwiesel died!

[retrogeezer]

I remember reading that Sevenoaks in Kent lost 'six' of the seven oaks..

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http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/ ... storm.aspx

[Ben_L]

Aye, it was carnage here:

 

 

 

I take it the Coffee and Croissants were a gonna then??

 

It was a sad day for Breakfast...

[explosive-cabbage]

You Scottish are funny

 

This has to be the best pic:

 

I was -3 at the time, but I do remember my gran (who lived in Hastings) telling me about ''The Great Storm'', and that half of the forest in Hastings got flattened. I remember walking through the woods down there when I was a kid, 10 years later, and seeing massive Beech trees still laying where they had fallen.

[Shep Shepherd]

 

That's Sutton Road in Southend-on-Sea. Kenbro Carpets is still operating from the same building

 

In the village in east Kent I grew up in, the only car of note to be damaged was a brand new Fiesta 1.4 Ghia, which had a mature beech tree go right through it. I bet that really made the owner's day.

 

I suspect that my father would have been quite pleased if his 1981 Metro had copped a tree or some masonry on its roof, but it survived unscathed.

[ayrshirelad]

I was 15 at teh time and i remember that very well. We were coming back from a school trip to Holland that nite. Whne the boat left Dunkirk harbour wall all hell broke loose. We went up down side to side side, then a mixture of both! I remember having somthing to eat and my plate literally sliding form one side of the table to the other!. Some of us being stupid and brave decided it would be a good idea to go outside on to the deck and see how windy it was! ? Well it took 4 of us just to open the door to the deck. Then when we were oot it was like something from a film spray and foam everywhere. The teachers very quickly got us all back inside. We had to go to the car deck early to get on to the coach, however it seemed to take an age for us to get into Ramsgate. What we found out was that the boat couldnt get into the harbour at one point and we were lucky toget in at all. It looked as if we were not going to get in. However said captain waited his chance then basically went for a gap in the waves!. Otherwise he story would have been very difernt. I woke up the next day to see a ferry beached on the sand!. Thankfully we exsaped the worst up here in Scotlandshire for a change!

[ShiteRider]

I'm prepared for OMGSTORMKAOS .........i have a V-reg cortina parked by the house, under my slightly dodgey chimney stack.

[Tetleysmooth]

I'm prepared for OMGSTORMKAOS .........i have a V-reg cortina parked by the house, under my slightly dodgey chimney stack.

Same here. I keep looking at my Grand Voyager in the front garden, then up at the chimney stack and thinking, 'I wonder what that would look like on my bonnet'?

[chris1991]

I didn't grace this earth back in 1987 but I know a tree fell through my Auntie and Uncles bungalow on the Isle of Wight. My parents were also on a plane the night it happened, they said that was 'interesting'. 

 

Here's a photo I've just found

 

[Negative Creep]

I was only 4 so don't remember much aside from the big oak trees in the nearby park being ripped up. Our street, and my Dad's car survived unscathed. INTERESTING

[ShiteRider]

I didn't grace this earth back in 1987 but I know a tree fell through my Auntie and Uncles bungalow on the Isle of Wight. My parents were also on a plane the night it happened, they said that was 'interesting'. 

 

Here's a photo I've just found

 

Fuck me! rat look herbie "hit with the stick", half the internet must be circle jerking into their beanie hats.

[greengartside]

I was three in 1987, and living in Norwich at the time in a three-storey flat. All I can remember was that the window panes had blown in and covered mum and dad's bed in glass. Luckily they hadn't been hurt but we were all very shook up. There were a lot of fallen trees along the main road as well. My dad was working for Eastern Counties buses at the time and managed to get to work okay. As he was standing in a sort of wind shelter thing (ironically), a metal newspaper headline stand flew past him at head height. Had he been two feet forward then it would have probably killed him.

[purplebargeken]

I was 23 then and was living in the old Colindale Hospital nurses home. They were building something to do with the blood transfusion service just across the way and I remember looking out in the early hours at a crane that was literally just spinning around and around. I had a Volvo 244DL at the time and drove back to my main hospital in London Colney, next thing one of the big heavy fence panels surrounding the grounds broke loose and just sailed past the front of my car as I was driving up the road. It was blown around like a bit of paper. Sadly one of Mrs. PBK's friends was blown under the wheels of a lorry and was killed instantly. There was quite a bit of building damage around the locality.

[warren t claim]

Although Oop North we escaped the worst of the bad weather and economic revival back in 1987.

 

I can remember Xmas 1997 we had terrible gales in the North West and I was forced to take a longish journey in a 1970 Morris Minor Traveller, an epic trip I won't forget in a hurry! I was constantly having to juggle whatever pathetic number of amps that the dynamo was putting out between lights and wipers to see the road ahead and the heater to keep the car demisted. At one point I looked up to see a massive tree branch get torn off and blow accross the front of the poor little Minor. Fortunately we both survived the journey and the Minor is now in a fully restored state and lives with a doting owner in Liverpool.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

In 87 I was a chauffeur for the chairman of a large retail group,my usual car ,an Daimler XJ40 was in having warranty work(surprise,surprise) so I had a loan SD1. The early morning journey from my house in Milton Keynes to my bosses house in Tring usually took 25/30 mins,that morning I must have had to divert around about a dozen fallen trees,not to mention all the floods. When I eventually picked up the boss he was so pissed off about been late he encouraged me to go up a steep verge to get round a tree,I managed to slide sideways into a drain and he had to push ! He gave the transport manager such a bollocking,as he reckoned the Daimler wouldn't have got stuck,whenever we had bad weather after that I got a hire RangeRover- result.

[Lord Sterling]

Don't remember much about the "Great Storm of '87" other than some fallen trees and few flying fence panels. I was about 4 then. There was a Flickr group under some council name that had pictures of fallen trees, one had missed a very early E-reg Rover 820i of which I naturally saved the pic of.

 

A few years ago I took a MG6 out for a proper razz (as the salesman wasn't with me) I did pass by somewhere on the outskirts of Birmingham (possibly Dorridge or summat) and saw a few tress that had been blown over again.

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[Mr Lobster]

In 1987 I was 12. And I had a paper-round as was often the case back in the day.

 

The morning of the Great Storm found me doing my paper round as usual despite it being a bit lively weatherwise. And anyway, I wasn't going to skip a day because it was a bit windy as that would mean I wouldn't get paid. 

 

So I'm delivering to the last house on the round and I stick the paper in the door and set off down the path when something hits me on the back of the head. Only a glancing blow mind but I still knew about it. Looked around and theres some tiles on the floor. 

 

Got home, dad took me to hospital and I was checked over and ok. He told the newsagent who told the local paper who in good time sent a reporter round. Now until this point I'd quite fancied being a journalist when I got older so when said reporter arrived and got out of a tatty blue Skoda Estelle it rather disappointed me.

 

Still, got my picture in the paper and ma_lobs still has the newspaper clipping somewhere.

[HillmanImp]

I am sure I have posted this story before but cant find it on this thread so will do so again. 

 

Back in 1987 I went to Angmering secondary school on the south coast. I had slept through the storm and was glad to find out the following day that I did not have school.

 

Whilst the puplis did not have to go in, the teachers who could were asked to in order to clean up the mess. One of the teachers, MR WALKER WHO WAS A VERY LOUD TALKER, was with a few others outside cutting some of the trees into more manageable pieces with chainsaws. 

 

Suddenly Mr Walker was lying on the floor screaming and was covered in blood. Some other teachers went running over to him.

 

'Where are you cut'

 

'I DON'T KNOW'

 

'Where is the pain?'

 

'I CANT FEEL ANY PAIN!'

 

'None at all?'

 

'NO, HAVE I LOST A LIMB? HOW BAD IS IT? OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?'

 

What he had done was chainsaw straight through a squirrel. 

 

 

[ShiteRider]

When woollarding goes wrong.