27 years ago today...

[Nicos]

We woke up to the damage following the famous 'Michael Fish' storm

I can can hardly believe it was that long ago!

We were living in our first house in Cheshire with our two young children...we were lucky to have no damage to the property but recall loads of roads closed due to fallen branches and trees.
There were tree stumps left by the side of some roads for years after that!

How were you affected?

[skeggijon]

Blimey was it really so long ago? I was in the process of moving to London from West Yorkshire when it happened and arrived to find half of the roof of my new place in the back garden.

[Guest]

It was my 7th birthday so kinda didn't get my birthday party still I got the day off school

My hubby was cycling college being blown into gorse

Yes there is a 10year difference and it only seems sscary when we talk about when we were young.

[cariann88]

Norfolkgrey my fella is 11 years older then me, he would of been 10 when that happened. I wasn't even born yet!!!

[Knight of Albion]

I remember it well. How our trees stayed up I'll never know.

Our neighbour lost two trees though. We saw them go down. Two 40 feet pines, the trunks as straight as a dye, just snapped like matchsticks.

[WendyC]

My sister and I were both at uni at the time but bizarrely we had both come home for a few days to stay with our dad. Our bedroom was a loft extension and predominantly wooden construction. We woke up as it was like being on a ship at sea. We got up, Dad was oblivious, being downstairs and a bit deaf.
In the morning I remember how the leaves on the trees were still green but desiccated as if the moisture had been blown out of them. Huge trees were snapped like matchsticks. Dad's power was back on after about a week but he had an extension lead from his house to next door for ages as hers was off even longer.
A few weeks later my now husband and I collected our first tandem and had a circuitous route home, as well as wobbly cycling, as many roads were still blocked.


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[veggiechicken]

I must be getting old............... I don't remember it affecting me or mine in any way. Maybe we were just lucky.

[tom_birmingham]

I remember sleeping in the living room, mom and dad were terrified.

[muddled]

I remember I walked seven miles the following morning to get to a job interview; climbing over trees and debris, crying at the sight of ancient uprooted oaks in Greenwich park.
When I got there the chap refused me the job saying he expected ladies to dress in a skirt and blouse for interviews.

Good old days eh? ;-)

[mrswadders]

Yes there is a 10year difference and it only seems scary when we talk about when we were young.

mine's 15 years older! not that you'd know it his a recyled teenager!!!

[mrswadders]

back to the storm I was on holiday in Ibiza, apparently one of the windows at Gatwick satellite had blown in where we'd flown from only a few hours before!

[Kristen]

I must be getting old............... I don't remember it affecting me or mine in any way. Maybe we were just lucky.

My recollection is that the "path" was relatively narrow, and diagonally across the SE, so you might well have escaped it in South Wales?

Tree destruction around here was significant Mrs K came up from NW Kent the following evening and was driving around fallen trees all the way up to central Suffolk ...



Surprised that there was much damage up in Cheshire as I had thought that folk in the North probably wondered what all the fuss that the Southerners were making was all about

[Nicos]

Mostly tree damage if I recall...dying trees/branches and the usual old chimney stack!
agreed...nothing like in the SE.
I was really saddened to hear of the loss of the trees at Severn Oaks....not that I'd ever seen them.
I felt dreadful for those badly affected.

[arpoet]

Our postman was on his jollies on the south coast, had a skin full, went to bed and never heard a sound. He got up the next morning, went down for his breakfast only to find the conservatory used for meals and the kitchen block all smashed up by fallen trees... he was most put out as there was no bacon and eggs.

[PyreneesPlot]

I was a student in West Wales - we had flooding but no wind damage. Walking along a lane I saw a ewe wedged under a wire fence with just her nose above water so rashly jumped in to rescue her. A full grown exhausted waterlogged sheep is very, very heavy and I remember having to shove her head underwater to get her out of the fence. When she was free she scrambled up the bank pulling me with her! We both then lay in the lane getting our breath back.
Stupid thing to do, as the farmer told me.