Hi, Saturday, August 28, 2004, 2:51:08 AM, Paul wrote:
> I was in London during a hurricane that hit with considerable force. > The weather bureau failed to post any kind of warning. I guess the > storm gained strength right before it came out of the Atlantic. I think > it was 1987. I was in a room on about the 20th floor of a hotel. i [...] That was the 'Great Storm' of October 1987. An embarrassing failure of our Meteorological Office. Our best-loved and most famous weatherman of recent years, one Michael Fish, said just before the storm broke "Apparently a woman phoned the Met Office earlier today to say she�d heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, if you�re watching don�t worry, there isn�t. It is going to be pretty windy though". The most upsetting aspect of it for me was the destruction it caused in Kew Gardens. They have recovered now though. http://www.bbc.co.uk/paintingtheweather/csv/painting/distant.shtml -- Cheers, Bob
