#hurricane87

‪My family had a very narrow escape in this. My thoughts with the families of those who were lost. I found this interesting "Thirtieth anniversary of the 1987 Great Storm – in pictures" @guardian #hurricane87 #hurricane1987 #thegreatstormof1987 #thegreatstorm #greatstormof1987

Ahhh 1987 and I was all of 9 years old. #michaelfish and his team famously failed to predict one of the biggest storms the UK had experienced for 100's of years by saying live on tv "Earlier a woman rang the BBC and asked if there would be a Hurricane. The answer is NO" or something to that effect. Just a few short hours later.... What terrible timing. There was absoloutely no warning. We were living literaly by the beach at that time with nothing breaking the full force of the hurricane powering down on us and our local weather reading station was reading 120 miles per hour BUT, and here is the kicker, it was full of micro tornados tearing things up all over the place with a whole power level of their own. Thats what really did the damage. I remember waking up in the night to what sounded like either a steam train shooting past the house or maybe a jet taking off. There is no other sound like it. #TheGreatStorm was quite the thing. It destroyed swathes of Queen Elizabeth Country Park. Just threw trees around like they were matchsticks. I remember us looking out the window and seeing house roofs going past the moon, in fact we ended up with part of our neighbours roof on the front of our house, shingle in the air like it was snow. It was like a bad dream. The heavy glass skylight in our bathroom upstairs kept getting lifted by the wind and slammed back down. The power had gone out of course and all we had was the strangely comforting glow of Dads cigarette untile we found a candle. Its always argued that it wasnt a hurricane. A Hurricane has to happen over tropical waters. Yes, however as experts have said what hit us here in the UK was still of sustain hurrican level winds. So basicaly if we had been in the tropics it would have beem called a hurricane. Because it was Great British we quite classicaly understate it and call it a storm or an "an angry spell". 🌬🌟🌪🌟🌀🌟🌪🌟🌬 #thegreatstorm #stormof87 #michaelfish #highwinds #stormprediction #hurricane87 (at Hayling, Portsmouth, United Kingdom)