October 15Th / 16Th 1987.

[LeonBlank1995]

The big storm that Michael Fish said wasn't going to happen.

Where were you and did it affect you?

[mushroom25]

i had been despatch to a job in Nuneaton, but when i got there i found the machinery for the job had been unable to arrive because the sidings were full of sleeping car trains from the north that could go no further. lots of bemused souls wandering about.....

[mallyh]

in the south ,all our new 6ft fence broke to pieces and conservatory roof smashed to bits but we were all uninjured

[Canary42]

I was living in Staines at the time and commuting by car to Fulham. The day before night of the storm I had to go from Fulham up to Newcastle (by rail) for a meeting and on getting back to Kings Cross very late I decided for expedience to get a train straight home and leave my car at work overnight. The next day after the overnight storm mayhem, all phone lines were down and no public transport running so I had no means of alerting work regarding my absence. I spent the weekend carless and went in to work by rail on the Monday, and retrieved it.

[Bobbisox1]

I was working for BT and a whole load of engineers were seconded down south , they loved it and I remember them all getting sweatshirts with the date and location on

[DTCwordfan]

Flying in from Muscat to Gatwick - friends picked me up and the demolition etc was remarkable. We had a lovely evening near Box Hill in a pub still open but lit by candle-light, the kitchen cooking on gas, so an excellent meal. I caught a limo back on Monday morning to Gatwick and we went down the back road to Dorking, Wotton and Norwood Hill and 'Jeez' - no wonder places like Sevenoaks were re-christened 'One Oaks'.

[pastafreak]

We were flying back home to NY. Instead, our flight was detoured to Paris where we stayed in a horrid little hotel on the outskirts. The food provided was vile.
We learned why when we got the news reports on American tv.

[horseshoes]

Our local swimming club was hosting an exchange visit from London, Willesden if I remember correctly, and I spent the day and evening helping to ferry kids from the station because the train was terribly late and there were no buses. We were all like drowned rats!

[237SJ]

I can't remember. I was either sleeping off a long working day or a party.

[tiggerblue10]

I remember it well. I had rain coming through my bedroom wall near the window and I was scared of the howling wind. Nothing major happened to us but I remember a few lives sadly being lost.

[New Judge]

We were woken in the night by the howling wind and heard a bit of glass shatter. Went back to sleep. In the morning we surveyed the garden. Neighbour's fence had taken a hammering and our (then) young apple tree had been uprooted. The glass we heard was one pane of the greenhouse shattering. It seemed nothing had hit it so must have just been the force of the wind. After rucking and moaning along the lines of "why was it us that suffered all the damage?" I realised how lucky we were when I set off the glass shop. I didn't make it and he wasn't open anyway. I replanted the tree with a strong prop and it is still healthy today.