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I used to work with an old boy who was down there for 5 years clearing up - he took his caravan and saws down came back for a weekend home after 2 years and couldnt work out why his wife had left him!

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I came home from school to find one Sycamore on the house and another being prevented from hitting the house by a large beam our neigbour had wedged between it and the corner of the house, each time the wind blow the beam bent like a bow.

 

The guy I first climbed with had worked (subbing) for Devon council after the storm. He had some very funny storys. The TO's were overwhelmed so they were told to just drive round looking for trees with storm damage, if they saw a group of fit birds near a tree in a park they just stopped and started dismantling it.

 

They were also banded from a country club as they kept blocking the filters on the Jacuzzi with wood chip.

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It was my first term at Writtle College and I slept right through it. Woke up the next morning walked across the quad to the dinner hall for breakfast and noticed a tree lying on its side - thought the Agric's had been having a laugh after a few beers. Then happened to notice half the trees around were horizontal :confused1:

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I was on a canal boat trip with school, stopped at Rickmansworth that night and remember waking up think the boat was bumping about a bit. In the morning there were trees down across the canal in both directions. Got the train back home (croydon) the day after. It wasnt just the odd tree down, they were everywhere. Every road, every park and woodland just looked so different.

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was this the first or the second big storm we had? there was two not far apart wasnt there

 

Re the second one; you probably mean the one on a Monday in January 1990. My abiding memory of that one was sheets of corrugated flying about central Croydon having been ripped off a tower block covered with it.

 

Jon

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