colvic987
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no sailing, but based in colchester at the time, woken up at 6 am and given a list of farms to go to, to supply power for milking the cows, then to a nursing home until they got their power back..
20 years ago
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AndrewB
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My yacht was in Conyer Creek. The slate roof on the local pub was ripped off and the slates flew around like frisbees causing great damage to the boats in the mudberth. Mine was fortunate to be untouched.
It was three weeks before power was restored to my house, so we survived using the gas cooker and hurricane lamps off the yacht.
It was three weeks before power was restored to my house, so we survived using the gas cooker and hurricane lamps off the yacht.
DaveS
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It was three weeks before power was restored to my house, so we survived using the gas cooker and hurricane lamps off the yacht.
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The enormous effort to restore power supplies involved staff from all of the electricity boards. More engineers and linesmen were involved in that one operation than are now employed in the whole of the privatised (and severely downsized) industry. If we are ever hit by another event on this scale then expect the recovery time to be very long indeed.
It was three weeks before power was restored to my house, so we survived using the gas cooker and hurricane lamps off the yacht.
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The enormous effort to restore power supplies involved staff from all of the electricity boards. More engineers and linesmen were involved in that one operation than are now employed in the whole of the privatised (and severely downsized) industry. If we are ever hit by another event on this scale then expect the recovery time to be very long indeed.
Sans Bateau
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At the time I lived in the Ashdown Forrest in East Sussex. The following day it was more all down than Ashdown!
There was no route out of the village, every road was blocked and it took something like 3 days before a single route was cut through, everyone was out with chainsaws, dawn to dusk. It was lucky for me to get access as we were collecting a Spanish aupair from Gatwick. On the way home as we weaved in and out of the fallen trees she muttered something in Spanish, I suspect it might have been something along the lines of "Oh f****** Hell!"
Our house was without electricity for just short of 2 weeks.
There was no route out of the village, every road was blocked and it took something like 3 days before a single route was cut through, everyone was out with chainsaws, dawn to dusk. It was lucky for me to get access as we were collecting a Spanish aupair from Gatwick. On the way home as we weaved in and out of the fallen trees she muttered something in Spanish, I suspect it might have been something along the lines of "Oh f****** Hell!"
Our house was without electricity for just short of 2 weeks.
AlanPound
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Re: 20 years ago...
... and Michael Fish still hasn't recovered his reputation (I guess a day doesn't pass without someone reminding him!)
... and Michael Fish still hasn't recovered his reputation (I guess a day doesn't pass without someone reminding him!)
davidfox
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My business partner and I had just agreed to buy a plane. a TB10 for those that might know, luckily it was blown upside down and broken in half at Biggin Hill could have been an expensive mistake as the partnership broke up.
ShipsWoofy
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A large group of us where on the beach pushing the bilge keelers back upright as the tide was racing in. I then became a human anchor as a few of us held a boat that had broken her chains. The coasty arrived and we tied her to his landy, which was getting bounced toward the water, he was having kittens.
