20 years on - The Great Storm of 1987

[osymandus]

I seem to remember broken Fence Panles , and a very muddy garden :D

 

[MK Shrimper]

I seem to remember broken Fence Panles , and a very muddy garden :D

Enough about saturday night, what about 1987?

I'm here all week you know.....

 

[Firestorm]

I had booked the Friday off work for some reason , so I didn't get a gratia day off bexause the trains were not running. I remember being woken up by the neighbours greenhouse disintegrating, but we escaped unscathed other than a few lifted tiles. I went for a run at lunchtime and the devastation allong Southchurch Blvd I reckon only 1 tree in 3 was still standing. Coming back along the seafront there was a small rowing boat on top of the hedge which surrounds the tennis club at thorpe bay.

A bloke I worked with lived just South of the River and used to walk to work, he told me that he overslept that day hurried to work without listening to the news or getting a paper, he wondered why there appeared to be less people around and then got in to a deserted office....

 

[Birri]

I seem to remember broken Fence Panles , and a very muddy garden :D

I remember doing our paper rounds along ashingdon road and then getting back helping Dad get the fence panels out of all the gardens round us !

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

I slept through it all, but took the opportunity to saunter into work at half ten and use the storm as an excuse.. however unbeknown to me one of the managers lived 50 yards round the corner and was in at half seven as i should have been, plenty of people didn't make it in at all yet i got a major bollocking for taking the p!ss :o

 

[The General]

I was 1!

:)

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Just had a read of the wiki page about the 1987 storm and it mentioned the one in 1703 as a "perfect hurricane". Right then eco-warriors & stealth tax-collectors, can you please justify if that one was caused by global warming? I can't imagine the Spanish Armada had a terrible problem with their carbon footprint!

Wiki - 1703 Great Storm

 

[canveyshrimper]

I wasn't woken by the storm, but by people shouting in the street. There were neighbours trying to hold on to dustbins and garden furniture. I thought sod that for a lark and went back to sleep in the hope that there would be no trains. Luckily there wasn't and I seem to remember that one of the cockle sheds at Leigh was on the line.

Had a great lay in and a few pints in The Cricketers at lunchtime.:D

 

[Cricko]

Just had a read of the wiki page about the 1987 storm and it mentioned the one in 1703 as a "perfect hurricane". Right then eco-warriors & stealth tax-collectors, can you please justify if that one was caused by global warming? I can't imagine the Spanish Armada had a terrible problem with their carbon footprint!

Wiki - 1703 Great Storm

Harry would remember that one Rich...:p

 

[Southend_Lady]

I was 1!

:)

I was only 2! So cant say I remember it, although my brother was born a few days before meaning the midwife couldnt get out to my mum for a visit as a tree had fallen on her car!

 

[The General]

I was only 2! So cant say I remember it, although my brother was born a few days before meaning the midwife couldnt get out to my mum for a visit as a tree had fallen on her car!

For the record, i apparenty slept through the whole thing too! I was a baby that liked me sleep. 20 years later, and im still no difference. Just a big baby that likes his sleep!

:rolleyes:

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Trees all over the roads and getting a lift to work by the old man cos it eas far too windy to on my old Honda MB50 moped!!

 

[callan]

I remember my girlfriend of the time struggling to park her car in the White horse car park, due to all the Debris.
Damn delayed my pint that night.