Where were you for the storm of '87?

MissGull

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Apr 1, 2013

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• Oct 27, 2013

• #1

I was only small. Remember going out the next day and there was chaos everywhere - due to ill-preparation and a big tree had come down in the playground. They never removed it, and years later it was a log that everyone sat on/walked along. Such good fun.
I don't have any memory of the storm itself as I slept through it.

 

LamieRobertson

Not awoke

Feb 3, 2008

46,668

SHOREHAM BY SEA

• Oct 27, 2013

• #2

in bed asleep during the storm as it happened over night as i recall...bathroom window ended up in next doors garden...frame and all
...i was more interested in the house i was due to move into.....they lost a single ridge tile

 

Gregory2Smith1

J'les aurai!

Sep 21, 2011

5,476

Auch

• Oct 27, 2013

• #3

spent that night in Seaford,bit lively as they say

had a car crash next day,everyone assumed it was storm damage

 

Gazwag

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Mar 4, 2004

30,130

Bexhill-on-Sea

• Oct 27, 2013

• #4

I was in a hotel in London and slept through it - I turned on TV in the morning and thought it was strange that they were in a temporary studio and look out the window to see trees on top of cars. I didn't get home that day as there were no trains or tube so I had to spend another night up there.

 

Ernest

Stupid IDIOT

Nov 8, 2003

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LOONEY BIN

• Oct 27, 2013

• #5

I remember walking to work and a dustbin flew past me in the road and as a tree nearly fell on my head I thought it best to go back home

 

banjo

GOSBTS

Oct 25, 2011

13,243

Deep south

• Oct 27, 2013

• #6

Slept through it. Walked to work next day as trees down everywhere.

 

Goring-by-Seagull

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Jan 5, 2012

1,980

• Oct 27, 2013

• #7

I slept like a baby all the way through it.

I was 2.

 

Conkers

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Jan 11, 2006

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Haywards Heath

• Oct 27, 2013

• #8

In a cot taking a dump in my nappy, I imagine.

 

Miami Seagull

Grandad

Jul 12, 2003

1,463

Miami Florida, USA

• Oct 27, 2013

• #9

In the police on duty in littlehampton!

 

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Lenny Rider

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Sep 15, 2010

5,424

• Oct 27, 2013

• #10

Living at home with my parents, went to Bensons nightclub on the Thursday and whilst walking home in the small hours noticed it was getting a bit windy. Then managed to crash out at home and slep through it, the miraculous thing was that it happened at 2-3am rather than 2-3pm when there might have been some serious casualties.

 

Dick Head

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Jan 3, 2010

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Quaxxann

• Oct 27, 2013

• #11

St. George's Terrace, Brighton.

 

JamesAndTheGiantHead

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Sep 2, 2011

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Worthing

• Oct 27, 2013

• #12

Safely tucked away in my dad's left bollock. No idea where he was, mind.

 

SIMMO SAYS

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Jul 31, 2012

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Incommunicado

• Oct 27, 2013

• #13

Ernest said:

I remember walking to work and a dustbin flew past me in the road and as a tree nearly fell on my head I thought it best to go back home

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Lord Bracknell

On fire

Jul 5, 2003

39,499

104 Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair

• Oct 27, 2013

• #14

Exactly the same place I am now. Except the greenhouse has now gone and the roof on an outbuilding has been replaced. And the trees over the road that survived 1987 are much taller now than they were then.

 

KZNSeagull

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Nov 26, 2007

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Wolsingham, County Durham

• Oct 27, 2013

• #15

Haywards Heath, fast asleep. First i knew about it was when I got up to go to work, and couldn't, so that was a bonus.

 

Colossal Squid

Returning video tapes

Feb 11, 2010

4,906

Under the sea

• Oct 27, 2013

• #16

Dick Head said:

St. George's Terrace, Brighton.

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A mighty fine 'hood.

I myself was a child, living in rural Surrey. I slept through the storm and awoke to discover the school was closed (hooray) and we had no electricity (booo).

 

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willow147

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Mar 16, 2011

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Romney Marsh, Kent

• Oct 27, 2013

• #17

I was staying at a hotel just outside Heathrow Airport, slept through the whole thing. The biggest problem was getting back to Folkestone as all the trains were out. Fortunately we happened to bump into someone else from where I work (also on a course unbeknown to us) who had driven up and was able to offer us a lift home.

The first I knew of the storm was going into the hotel reception and seeing it full of leaves and other random junk.

All week we'd been watching someone erecting a fairly long fence only to see it gone the next morning.

 

Paskman

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May 9, 2008

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Chiddingly, United Kingdom

• Oct 27, 2013

• #18

Washington DC - balmy autumn day. Mind you the next day all the Yanks had seen Mr Fish............

 

upthealbion1970

bring on the trumpets....

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Jan 22, 2009

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Woodingdean

• Oct 27, 2013

• #19

Slept through it in hollingbury, panicked when I woke up late for work. Spent the next couple of days helping clear the road on top of ditchling beacon.

 

pipkin112

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Aug 10, 2011

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sompting

• Oct 27, 2013

• #20

I was living in Goldstone Villas at the time, I was another one who slept through it all.