howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#21
i slept through too, woke up to no electricity, drove to work and had to divert as trees were down in buckhurst hill.
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#22
I slept through it all, I woke up up to see our car surrounded by roof tiles, amazingly it was not stuck by any. My neighbour in Cheam Village where I lived at the time lived above his florist shop went to the window to see what the noise was had a lucky escape, as at that moment his chimney crashed through the ceiling on to the bed he had just vacated
I worked in Chelsea at the time and noticed that quite a few of the officers 'top of the range' cars were crushed by fallen trees in the barracks car park which they had left there overnight following on from a late night party.
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#23
We got up about 3am, could not sleep for the noise of the gales, and when we got down heard shattering glass almost continually, and looking out of the door saw the big greenhouse windows shattered or missing.
Later that morning, Bob anxious to get them repaired said we must get to Deal for glass, as the weather was cold. Trees had blocked all the roads out of Tilmanstone, and chain saws were all busy clearing. Cables were strewn over the roads, we managed to get through, with difficulty, tried several routes (Studdal etc), sometimes coming back and going another way, and finally got through to Deal but on hindsight should not have ventured out until roads were safer and cleared.
Neighbour, used to camping, parked his mobile caravan in the close and kept the kettle on the boil for everyone who depended on electricity, I think it was cut off for about 4 days - in the end the elec board put a heavy cable through our letter-box to give us all a supply until it was properly repaired.
Lots of the lovely beech trees were uprooted in the village and woodlands, a huge number of trees lost.
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#24
Our greenhouse the day after the storm.... 1987
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#25
Since the storm, one of the large beech trees in our bluebell woodland still grows... nature is a wonderful healer...
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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#26
Slept all through the night, woke up to no power.
Had a driving lesson that morning, drove to Folkestone via the old A20 through Capel. Loads of debris on the road especially near the Royal Oak including a fridge & a washing machine!
My instructor made me drive along Wear Bay Road to look at the Hengist marooned at the Warren.
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#27
I slept through the night and never even heard it!
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#28
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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#29
Re #26
Hengist aground on the toe-weighting apron at the Warren.
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#31
Great picture Ed. I missed all the news coverage as we had no power for two weeks so had to catch up with it at a later stage. Mindyou I didnt need a tv I just had to look out of the window.
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#32
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#33
great pictures all round of that night and the aftermath.
Brian Dixon
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#34
slept all the way through it,only to be told by the wife the next day that it ws a bit windy over night.
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#35
Andy Cooper what a small world we live in, I was living in East Grinstead at the time! I was young, but have always remembered the horrendous noise from outside, and seeing the massive oak tree swaying (!) outside our house! A few of our trees had to be cut the next day as they were leaning over the drive.
I loved reading the different memories on the Kent website. Ed, how did the ferry get out of that predicament?!
Keeps politics to myself
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#36
Helen, the Hengist was towed off after six days and went away for repair before reentering service. Another Sealink ferry, the St.Christopher, suffered severe damage and was in a very bad way. I shall put some hair-raising photos on later today after I have scanned them.
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#37
Photos of the damage sustained by the St.Christopher during the hurricane. I suspect that it was touch and go that she survived and did not become an even worse disaster than the Herald.
The forward garage door at the forward end of the upper cardeck was stoved in by a massive green sea being shipped over the forecastle. Meanwhile, trucks were overturning on the cardecks, shedding their loads and demolishing cars, and the Bosun and Chippy were given bravery awards for clearing the resultant debris from the scuppers, without which free surface water would have been flooding the cardeck.
The completely flattened white car in photo 8 was owned by a Swiss couple who came back onboard the next day to take photos as they said that their insurance company would never believe them!
The Master was Colin Roberts, seen in the final photo. I later sailed on the St.Christopher for three very happy years and Colin Roberts always said that it was the worst night that he had experienced in all his years at sea. A very nice guy who chainsmoked continuously.
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#38
Wow !!
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#39
Wow!! is right...they are amazing pictures Ed..amazing and alarming at the same time. Now that was a rough crossing
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#40
Amazing stuff Ed ! - Can you post them on the Dover History Facebook page?
Been nice knowing you :)
