What do you remember from 15th October 1987????? The night of the great storm in SE ENGLAND.

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I was working in NW London as a nanny and the bins and stuff was thrown about outside

my parents in East Sussex lost fence panels and roof tiles

All the trees on the railway in East Sussex and Kent

What do you remember?

Where were you?

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I walked to work (Fleet Street) past loads of fallen trees and ruined buildings and cars. People en route were very chatty and friendly - a blitz mentality perhaps?

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My mother was in hospital with viral enchephalitis and we had to drive 50 mile round trip to see her. We had to eat at the hospital as we had no electric in our village for 7 days. I remember trying to use the wood burner to make a cup of tea. We all went to the pub in the evening by candle light and played cards and when we came home we had to go to bed as it was dark and there was nothing to do!

Oh, and I singed my hair on a candle after leaning over it to get something.

I was due to fly to Paris from Heathrow the next day. I was so looking forward to it... and so frightened I wasn't going to make it. But I did.

And that trip changed my life

The wall in the alleyway next door to us fell down. That's all I remember.

..do tell anna

oh, muppetgirl, all that I meant was that because of that trip, which was to visit a girlfriend, I decided to come to Paris on my year abroad from University... and on the basis of that year abroad in Paris I got my first proper job after University and came to live here - and ended up staying and making my life here

That's so great to have a 'moment' that changed your life or mapped out your destiny...

Well, there are few more than just that one . Like the night I met my DP... very memorable...

I remember sitting in a portacabin type temporary classroom watching the huges trees swaying hoping that they were strong enough to stay standing! The teacher wouldn't let us move across to the main building.

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wow posey you did a long stint. I left straight after training so was there 1986 - 1989. I'm struggling to remember the name of the home I started in, it was next to the laundry (not the one with the dodgy wiring I left to become a practice nurse then went travelling. Are you still nursing?

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telly broken. Maybe you can all look at this when you're done watching.

I remember being 7 years old, and a tree in my garden falling into my bedroom, and where normally I would look and see my sister on the other side of the room, I could instead see the top of a tree. We were both fine, and my dad spent about 6 months chopping the tree with a chain saw to use as logs for our fire, until one day, he chopped too far, cut off half his thumb, and had to DRIVE HIMSELF (action man) to hospital where they sticthed it back on again.

So just a run of the mill rainy day really!

I remember walking out of my flat in Bethnal Green in the morning and there were fallen trees blocking either end of the alleyway - went to BF's (now ex) house in Farnborough the next day and I don't think we saw a tree standing. Remember being gutted that I was still able to get to work

I was in hospital in Oxford & waiting to move from our first flat into a house (Reading)! I was terrified that the trees in our new garden had gone through the roof!

DH had a hell of a drive to visit me..

I was still in junior school! Got a week off because the roof of the swimming pool was blown off and landed, in more or less one piece, on the field!

Sibble - it would've been Luckes, Cavell or Alex home (I've a great memory for such minutiae!) I staffed down at Mile End from qualifying in 1990 until dd was born in 1997. Then stopped and have never gone back.

I was a student in Brighton and lived in a camper van at the time. I remember the van rocking about and listening to bins bouncing down the street. The dog was terrified. I think we were quite lucky a tree didn't fall on us or something - a load came down where we had been parked a week previously

Luckes, that was it. I had the room next to the telephone which rang at all hours day and night, particularly great when on nights. How strange.

I was living in crawley down west suseex and I was 9 at the time.

I remember being woken by the awful wind, then the power going off and my mum dad and me getting up and making cups of tea.

Then We could hear the sounds of trees falling, watching my neighbours shed blow away and my parents and neighbours struggling to save a fence that was adjacent to our property( My mum got a black eye).

Myu dad also went out to rescue my rabbit whose hutch was attached to the side of the shed....

Then one of the worst things I remember was this awful roaring ripping sound which made all of us look at each other in fear (we were in next door for the remainder of the night by then).

We found out the next morning that this sound was the top of about 8 garage roofs that had lifted off all together like a tin can and had landed on top of another neighbours car completely flattening it.

Our village was cut off for a few days. i also remember seeing the pilons arcing.

My dad was a post office engineer back then and he was on overtime for weeks afterwards.