The big storm of 1987 hits Southern England

[freddielaker2]

It took me 4 hours to get to work - only work 6 miles away, I almost lost a 1.5m satellite dish too

[LegendsOf2011]

I wasn't born when this happened.....

[missginns]

was really scary - I woke up at 4 am and a tree blew down the road!

[pabsw]

I was 5 when this happened and our conservatory fell down and crushed my guinea pig.

[netleygirl]

this isnt fake

[netleygirl]

this isnt fake

[jogardner1]

Definitely NOT fake, I was there! Had a marine business in Essex at the time and almost the whole of Essex Marina came adrift and floated across to the other side of the river Crouch. Many boats sank. There was a massive amount of damage in the area.

[agloo87]

Doing this for school project, gd info

[evansc09]

8yrs before i was born lol

[1vasbec1]

This is disaster! It was hit London!

[cooltilz]

10 yrs before i was born :)

yEy

[sunkat76]

I was 11. I lived up a small hamlet on Herts and Essex border and we lost several apple trees in our orchard pulling up half the garden and top field and yet my brother and mum slept through it!?!!!

Powerlines and phone lines were down and the whole lane was blocked in by fallen trees.

At least we kept our roof.

[Bex1Bab1]

I was 6 months old and slept through it. My mum told me that her power got knocked out and she tried to drive to the other side of the town (30 min drive normally) to warm my bottle up but the debris was blocking all the roads so she ended up having to walk it.

[sunkat76]

aah bless :)

[brettc2727]

how bad was the storm in the midlands?

[0AndyC0]

I was living in Birmingham at the time and I don't remember it being bad at all, when I woke up I couldn't understand for a while why a lot of the London-based tv and radio stations were broadcasting 'emergency' programmes.

[Fasters2]

Very Bad the gales got upto 65 MPH

[MJFan281096]

Apperently when the storm had just approched the sea, you could feel the wind in Birmingham (if you don't know where that is, Shakespear lived a little while away from there). Apperently old ladies were gripping onto lamposts to stop the wind nocking them over! I live near Birmingham but I didn't get to see the storm 'cause I weren't alive!

[wizzboy76]

Look how young he is there, DAM. I was at school durring this bad day in Dorset near the coastline. I rember seeing the waves crashing on to the cliffs. We all hoped that the school would get destroyed so we could have a few months off. NO Chance. Yet it was at night when the winds really picked up. Scarey to sleep in bed, hearing the roof crack and rumble.

[matrix1234r]

i slept through the storm, had seventy tiles blown off my roof, we had a huge pine tree in our garden but in the morning it was in nextdoors garden. still went to work in the morning, just had to dodge a few trees on the way.

[Jojosparodys]

Were meant to have that again today!Ekk,

hope its not AS bad.

[blobcatuk]

I was nearly 3 when the storm hit but I remember it! I remember looking out the window seeing plenty of trash flying about outside. The following morning all the fences in the gardens had blown over and I was running about in everyones gardens, getting randomly picked up and dumped back in my own after trapling on their already squished plants.

[razzle27]

i was 7 when this happend and was woke to a roof tile coming through my landed window in brighton.next day my mum took me and my brother to queens park ,we got loads of pictures with us on the huge up rooted trees,i have still got the local newspaper the argus with an 8page special.

[M3nty]

This happened on my 4th birthday. I was living in Brighton. I remember it very well. House was fine though... The damage of felled trees is still obvious today in Brighton.

[RowanAthikson]

Stork Special Blend Margarine

Nicest thing of Stork

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[paul2v2007]

this happened on my first birthday! lol

[nafe42]

it wasn't that bad...lived on the seafront in brighton and slept through it all..my mum even made me go to school (3 children 1 teacher that day)

[Mellywelly29]

A bit of our roof fell off and loadsa tree's fell down in the road near us.

[artstudent07]

We still don't no what the weather is going to do next, because of the so called globalwaring.

[keefybaby2007]

HAHAHA.....they didn't warn the people who were gonna crash!.....besides.......what was the driver looking at?........

[Busher50]

yeh cause they didnt have the technology to find out wat exactly was gonna hapen then now we do

[straydoggio]

Alastair Stewart - looking back at this now, what a plummy accent he was putting on.

Also.. rofl... lets set up our camera here in the dark behind this huge tree that's fallen in the middle of the road and hope a motorist drives in to it.

[PaulRoberts]

You're right about Alastair Stewart's naff accent. And he doesn't look comfortable there at all - it's as if he's unintentionally sat on a cucumber.

[Jemeela]

it's 1987 they don't smile because it's informal.