When the Hurricane hit East Dulwich

[Saffron]

Hmm interesting. Hurricanes have a tropical origin. I thought the '87 storm was extratropical (but reached cyclone speeds?)?

[jrpfinch]

It generated hurricane force winds, but (in insurance at least) it would be classed as an extra tropical cyclone (ETC). A serious winter ETC generally appears every 2-3 years starting in the Bay Of Biscay. They usually pass over Central Europe rather than the UK. The last big one was Xynthia in 2010. They are sparsely reported in the UK media, as they are generally not interested in continental European news!

[Google]

I think we are getting hurricane Lorenzo according to hurricane pro app I phone, I keeping an eye on it it was currently at 35 mph , judging the 4 day track of it it was 35 mph each day , but if I'm right or wrong the distance looks the same to uk being 4 days so to get here in about a day , must be getting faster papers could be right and the 200 mile radius of it more or less covers the width of uk, but at least we are aware after m.fisher mistake 1987.

[maxxi]

In '87 I was living in Ling Rd, Canning Town. Had just put a new roof on a shed attached to the bottom of the stairs of our first floor maisonette - corrugated plastic sheeting. During the storm I went down and stood under it, it went up and down like a fecking trampoline but stayed on.

[NewWave]

In the storm of '87 I was living noth of the river in Chelsea, and I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit I slept through it.

But I woke up the next morning to discover a tree had just missed crashing through my bedroom window, and was at such a weird angle it had to be chopped down.

And the street ouside was a sea of fallen branches-that evening I went to see Bob Dylan at Wembley and was deeply dissapointed that he didn't sing Hurracaine

[maritap]

I remember the roof of my garden shed blew off. Have no idea where it ended up as I never saw it again. And cars crushed by fallen trees

[fernado]

I was at school in Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex. Much local devastation, but the oddest sight was seeing most of the light aeroplanes at Shoreham Airport flipped over and lying upside down.

[puwetter]

I was living in dog kennel hill loads of trees were down but loads of people took pics ( anyone)

[a fish]

I was under the influence of a major acid trip in Hackney, so it was a very strange night indeed! I remember seeing a sheet of corrugated iron fly past the window, and wondering if I was hallucinating or not...

[Otta]

Saffron Wrote:

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> Hmm interesting. Hurricanes have a tropical

> origin. I thought the '87 storm was extratropical

> (but reached cyclone speeds?)?

Maybe. I always thought it was just down to classification based on wind speeds.

And for the record, they have downgraded tonight's forcast from hurricane to strong winds. Think we're looking at 30-40mph as opposed to pushing 100.

[Serena2012]

According to Sky News, Southern have already announced that there will be no train services before 9am tomorrow morning because of potential storm debris on the tracks. The Southern website is a little more vague re: the timings of any amended services. I guess we'll just have to wait and see...

[DulwichFox]

Twitter reports indicate that there are already Strong Winds in the Brighton Area. South Coast

With Trees down and Power lost. Train time tables revised.

DulwichFox

[Saila]

Are we in the eye of the storm?

[LillyD]

Don't know but as I was saying what storm it's not that bad, a tree just went down in our street!

[The Minkey]

Panel from the roof of my next door neighbour's extension just ripped off and flew away.

[muffins78]

Same here, roof of neighbour in our garden! And this is only early part of storm :S

[annabel42]

I am surrounded by woodland. The only tree that seems to have fallen so far is the single tree in my minute garden which has fallen on to a private footpath.

[shuntman]

These are from Dulwich Park and the childrens' Playground which is part of the Estate next to it.

Be careful EDers????and after

[shuntman]

Be careful EDers this is the children's' Playground on the Estate which is next to the park.

[pebbles]

Ha ha ungleglen - we must have been in the same class together as I was also coming back from Rippledown that day with Dulwich Hamlet - I've pm'd you :)

[mrure26]

There was a lot of build up to the storm, but this area seems to have done not too badly and the wind was nothing to write home about. Other areas, South West etc are not so well off.

[EDOldie]

I was living in Court Lane and remember, opps, sorry.

[Saffron]

This was an interesting comparison: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24708614

[4eyes]

i was a med student at kings, first year clinical, living in Holly grove peckham. i cycled to kings the morning after to find loads of trees over on camberwell grove, all crushing cars.