Well 20 years ago i was living in central Brighton and our road ended by a big tree lined park called the level. Went to bed blissfully ignorant of what was going to happen overnight. I was woken up in the early hours to find part of the chimney stack on the end of my bed.
In the morning we went to the end of our road to find that it was impassable. Probably 1 in 3 of the great elms that lined the park had fallen. There were crushed cars and trees everywhere. I can still vividlly remember a bright yellow crushed TR7 under one tree. I spent the morning playing with chainsaws helping to clear the road. Great fun!
I then got a few weeks off of college as it had lost its roof and spent them working for my dads building company repairing roofs. We only did them for existing customers and you couldnt get roofing materials for love nor money. We used to do one roof and the little old ladys would come out and ask us to repair their roofs for them. Most of the time it was a few slipped tiles and we would simply put them back. Most of the time we just used to take a fiver for a drink for doing it as it only took ten minutes to do. Then the tossers came in and flooded the area ripping people off. They were charging them hundreds to do the smae job.
Anybody else got memories of the storm? (not you crafty you werent born then!)
Cant believe it was 20 years ago either
In the morning we went to the end of our road to find that it was impassable. Probably 1 in 3 of the great elms that lined the park had fallen. There were crushed cars and trees everywhere. I can still vividlly remember a bright yellow crushed TR7 under one tree. I spent the morning playing with chainsaws helping to clear the road. Great fun!
I then got a few weeks off of college as it had lost its roof and spent them working for my dads building company repairing roofs. We only did them for existing customers and you couldnt get roofing materials for love nor money. We used to do one roof and the little old ladys would come out and ask us to repair their roofs for them. Most of the time it was a few slipped tiles and we would simply put them back. Most of the time we just used to take a fiver for a drink for doing it as it only took ten minutes to do. Then the tossers came in and flooded the area ripping people off. They were charging them hundreds to do the smae job.
Anybody else got memories of the storm? (not you crafty you werent born then!)
Cant believe it was 20 years ago either