Great Storm of 1987 - Footage of Devastation Caused by Historic Hurricane (1987)
On the night of 15-16 October 1987, Britain was hit by one of the most severe hurricanes in recorded history. Remembered not only for the devastation wrought across England's south east but for the erroneous weather predicitions that preceded it, the storm saw ome 15 million trees brought down and tens of thousands of citizens lose access to power. Thye following day, ITN's cameras recorded the damage, and asked quentions of the government as well as the Met Office as to why the violent gales were not foreseen, and how methods of weather forecasting might be improved in the future.
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I was ten and lived in a house on Folkestone cliff ruined by that hurricane, a friend was killed and a lot of people my dad knew were working on that ship, it ran aground just below our house. He cycled back from Dover do ma at 2am that night to Folkestone, got blown off his bike on the a 20. Found out the next morning that his best friends house had collapsed, the roof flew off and the floor fell through with his 12 year old daughter srill in bed. Her bed fell through the floor into the room below and she survived. It was frightening and noisy at the time but far more frightening two years later when we had another one and knew what we could reasonably expect
I lived in Brighton when this happened. Slept right through it. Tried to leave the house to go to work in the morning and a tree was blocking the door
Storm surge at sea
Cover up noncesense