Southern England’s hurricane 16 Oct 1987 (BBC)

BBC 9 o'Clock News & BBC Newsroom South-East reports on the hurricane that hit Southern England overnight on 15-16 October 1987.
The weather event in which Sevenoaks in Kent became One-oak, an English Channel ferry ran aground and Shanklin’s pier on the Isle of Wight was no more.

[@SolarSpaces]

Wait it is 16th of October today and in 1987 it was on 16th of October OMG

[@paulkenney700]

back then the weather people tried not to panic you nowadays they over panic you

[@MjkeG]

I lived in Ipswich Suffolk this morning was surreal. I was USAF enlisted, couldn't make it to the base (RAF Woodbridge) because of the felled trees. Thought my car was going to be blown off the road that morning. Blew out the side glass. Surreal memory. I didn't know it was the worst storm in history.

[@paulkenney700]

7:40 lol it was the tories remember