In article ,
MCC writes:
On the night of 30/31 January 1953 there was a screaming gale of NW'ly wind
around the Northern Isles which caused a storm surge down the North Sea
causing serious flooding along the East Anglia and Kent coasts and across
into the mainland Europe low-lying coastal countries accompanied by
considerable loss of life.
I was a 13 year old boy growing up in Orkney at the time and remember it
very well.

The worst weather disaster of the 20th century in the UK, and maybe
since the Great Storm of 1703 or even longer. I was four, then as now
living in Surrey, and given my age and location it's not surprising that
I don't have any memory of it at all.
--
John Hall

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde