The storm....

[max_tranmere]

A major storm is due to hit our green and pleasant land tonight, the worst for many years. It is due to start in the west and then head east. On Sky News just now they had a correspondent in Sussex who said that area will get it at about 1.00am tonight. Batten down the hatches chaps, it's gonna be a big one...

[cockneygeezer2009]

It'll soon blow over hopefully. Hope it's not a wind up. Will it be a storm in a teacup?

[number 6]

Elvis is dead

[one eyed jack]

Took the lives of 4 people

I'd say it was bad enough for that

[videokim]

We lost a tree & four fences, the Helter skelter on the Clacton pier was blown down.

[Arginald Valleywater]

And nothing else happened in the whole of Britain according to the news.....

[max_tranmere]

Tragic that four people died, at least it wasn't as bad as the 1987 storm, this has been mentioned a lot during recent days on TV. I remember the night it happened, Kent and Sussex were wrecked, a lot of ancient woodland was brought down. Hampstead Heath in north London, which is London's highest point, lost numerous trees. I also recall some large ships being beached on the Kent and Sussex coasts. This storm was minor by comparison. Having left Britain it is now tearing through Europe. Apparently there have been some casualties on the Continent.

[william]

Interesting thing these storms - very organised winds something called a sting jet....

very deep indeed.