tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19454955.post-45463832793203933722007-10-15T13:50:00.000Z2007-10-15T14:01:01.137Z2007-10-15T14:01:01.137ZCan you believe it is 20 years since Michael Fish calmly said "A woman has phoned the BBC this evening and said there is a hurricane on the way, but if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't". Within hours of having uttered these words, a huge storm battered the UK with the fiercest winds seen in nearly 300 years.<br /><br />16 people were killed and over 1.5 million trees were uprooted as the hurricane tore a path across the country.<br /><br />I wonder who that woman was who phoned the BBC and how did she know that a hurricane was coming? Does anyone know?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=5223">Share your memories of the Great Storm on DYR</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/dyr" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/dyr" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></div>Michael Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09847075712113836832noreply@blogger.com