{"id":686,"date":"2007-10-15T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T06:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=686"},"modified":"2007-10-15T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T06:20:15","slug":"remembering-the-great-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the great storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago this morning, Britain suffered the most ferocious storm since 1703. In the South-East of England, 19 people were killed and 15 million trees were uprooted and damage ran to \u00a31.5 billion.<br \/>\nI always sleep soundly and we had new double glazing, so I slept throughout the entire storm. However, when I rose, I found that we had lost all electricity, felt from the dorma roof and guttering from above one of the side windows had been ripped off, and the back garden was littered with branches snapped off from the spinney behind us.<br \/>\nMy line of the London Underground was not working and so I did not manage to reach my place of work until 10.30 am, only to be told that the building was being closed at lunchtime.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/topstories\/2007\/10\/15\/i-m-michael-fish-s-hurricane-lady-89520-19952339\/\">a story<\/a> in today&#8217;s &#8220;Mirror&#8221; newspaper about that infamous broadcast by weather man Michael Fish assuring us that all was well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago this morning, Britain suffered the most ferocious storm since 1703. In the South-East of England, 19 people were killed and 15 million trees were uprooted and damage ran to \u00a31.5 billion. I always sleep soundly and we had new double glazing, so I slept throughout the entire storm. However, when I rose, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}