And in terms of human casualties - the Burns day storm of 1990 was a far
greater disaster.

You may be right about the other events Alex, but I can assure you this
wasn't just another big storm. I've certainly never experienced winds well
in excess of 100 mph before.There would have probably been hundreds of
fatalities if this hadn't occurred in the early hours of the morning. Given
the density of traffic and people movements in this area I hate to think
what the thousands of trees that fell and masonry falling would have done!

Dave. 2.6C 18.50Z