Just a request here, did anyone on this ng
experience this? If so what was it like where you lived?

After just a few hours sleep I awoke to the sound of the gales and lay there
waiting for the roof of the loft conversion to lift off (which it didn't!).
Set off for work a little earlier than usual that morning. Found first tree
down within 100 yards. Found another route and then , somewhat
optimistically , attempted to follow roads through Epping Forest but all
were blocked by fallen trees. Memories - slates and tiles on pavements,
roving roofers driving around 'available for business', telecom repairmen
drafted in from Ireland. There had been a lot of rain overnight and at 0700
the wind was still gusting strong enough to pick up these areas of standing
water and hurl the spray around. I recall that by 0900 conditions were much
calmer and people were emerging into the bright sunlight to survey the
scene - not unlike the reaction I had observed when finally driving into a
seriously snowbound Poole on a Sunday morning in February 1978.
You can see the Epping barograph trace here http://tinyurl.com/55s3h

Gavin, next time you are in Cambridge, try Galloway and Porter (bookshop)
which sells slightly damaged stock. I recently bought 'Eye on the
Hurricane - in the Eastern Counties' for £1.95.

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk