Mark A wrote:

On 30/01/2013 22:24, MCC wrote:

I was a 13 year old boy growing up in Orkney at the time and remember it
very well.

What are your recollections from Orkney please?

Mark

Of that particular phenomenon - in no particular order - seeing turnips in
the fields with pieces of felt, torn from shed and henhouse roofs, buried
in them. Every fence festooned with hay and straw (no silage or combine
harvesters then).
Seeing the top half of a telephone pole suspended between those either side
of it, having been sliced in half by a piece of corrugated iron - maybe the
pole was muck rotten and needed replacement anyway.
Stromness Auction Mart being blown down.
The concern for the crew and passengers on the inter-island ferry Earl
Thorfinn which was forced to run before the gale and ended up off Aberdeen
instead of the island of Westray - she had no radiotelephone.
Wooden huts, left over from the War and being used as emergency Council
housing, having their roofs blown off and the occupants being sheltered in
a manse.
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MCC
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