The Great Storm October 1987 Thames News 161087

[@angelacooper2661]

I remember the Great Storm of 1987 and was a 17 year old YTS trainee then. It also happened to be my brother's 20th birthday. Not living in Southern England, the damage was not widespread, unlike relatives who did live there were affected!

[@sararyan1255]

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[@maxasaurus3008]

This is so cool, I was 3 yrs. old and living in the American mid-west for this storm. Yet the Nostalgia is very strong for some reason.

[@dominewimbury9120]

our electricity was cut off till 11 am. So we were pretty lucky. I was only two and a half at the time but seem to have kept a very distant memory of trees down outside our flats in Charlton. I was probably more worried about missing Rainbow on Thames than anything else lol. That day would have had a showing of Rainbow cos it was on telly on Tuesday and Friday then

[@Ourjudd]

Do you not get copyright strikes for this? I always do

[@midlandsurbaneye588]

It was the storm that came from the ocean, not nowhere. A storm they knew was headed for the UK. "It came out of nowhere" does not make up for the complete journalism failure on this night

[@gaggymott9159]

0:18 'The storm was whipped-up in the Bay of BISKEE!' 😒 Bay of Biscay!

[@andrewdaley5480]

Its biscuit silly. 🇬🇧 👍

[@jamesrodwell8609]

Looks like Uncle (Jack) Scott got off lightly in comparison to Ian McCaskill who was publicly chastised by Michael Burke.

[@Mitjitsu]

Blaming the weathermen for the forecast is like blaming the newscaster for misreporting.

[@CARLIN4737]

@@Mitjitsu Whats wrong with that?

[@jimbo6059]

Michael Fish was the one that got the most ridicule as he was the 6pm forecaster. He stated that a woman called him and asked him if there was a storm happening

[@agfagaevart]

7:53 Look what happened the following Monday. Workers went into their jobs and faced a major disaster! Stupid Blitz Spirit. Hopefully nowadays it's dead!

[@MrDirkles]

The only day in my life that a school was closed and i still had to walk in to school to find out.

[@enigma1974]

@ 6.55 - seems that ol' bully boy gripper stebson from Grange hill survived the mighty storm....

[@SuzLa1]

The man at 6:59. Tories had made so many unemployed and taken away rights of people in work, he had to be fearful of being sacked because of extreme weather conditions

[@sarjim4381]

It was only the worst in the London area. These kinds of storms happen about once very 30 years in north England, Scotland , and the Bay of Biscay area of France. It became a big story because it mostly affected the heavily populated parts of the country. Uncle Jack doesn't understand statistics. The "Once in 500 Year Storm" doesn't mean it won't happen again until 500 years from 1987. It mean's there's a 1 in 500 chance of it occurring in any one year.

[@gollycom]

It actually means that giant queen ants will enslave humans by 2022 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐝🐝👸🏼👸🏼🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🥜🎃🎃🎄🎁🎁🤡🤡🤡🍌🥜🥜🍰🥡

[@adamknight7041]

110mph+ is exceptionally rare winds even for the places you just mentioned probably only once every 30 to 50 years, in the South-East of England more like once every 150-300 years saying that the Burns Day storm less then 3 years after this was almost as powerful and again hit southern England.

[@robertnixon8625]

It happened again with the Burns day storm in January 1990

[@jimbo6059]

Not just London, the whole south east was hit, from Hampshire to Kent, the Thames / LWT area went into the home counties as well.

[@kathyyoung1774]

Exactly! It could happen tomorrow. I feel bad for those killed and those with so much damage. Officials need to take some lessons from Florida policies and customs. Florida gets hit by 1-4 hurricanes per year, much stronger than this, has few deaths, and building codes are strong to withstand many strong winds. Trees need to be kept trimmed, and dead or dying trees cut down and replaced with trees that have strong tap roots. There are many things that can be done to minimize damage. Nothing can prevent all damage.

[@Gallowaywind]

Im surprised there never extended the news to at least 20mins? Of course what did the Six Oclock show talk about? Since it was LWT regional news magazine programme, it must have talked about the storm?

[@cjmillsnun]

They couldn't extend the news. There was a circuit breaker that automatically cut the feed from Thames at 6:15 and connected LWT.

[@MQsCues]

@@cjmillsnun this isn't really accurate. In fact, the switchover was at 5.15 (from 1982 onwards) and was done at British Telecom, since they operated the network broadcast infrastructure (until the end of 1992). LWT was required to show local news early evening on Fridays and it paid Thames to provide this (hence the "Thames Weekend News" branding). Thames could do it cheaper than LWT since they already had a news service up and running for the weekdays. The contract would only have been for a 15 minute bulletin, so that's all they would have gotten. The 6 o'clock show was designed on the premise that Londoners wanted something more cheery than just news on a Friday, so I'm sure the remaining 45 minutes of the programme would have been a light hearted attempt to distract everyone from the horrible day they'd had by looking at other topics...

[@MQsCues]

The 6 o'clock show was local entertainment, not news! For that they subcontracted out to Thames...

[@kevinlongman007]

Keith Mcdowall is a silly old fool. How were workers supposed to get into the City? That morning there were no trains running and few buses and many homes had no power. He probably had a big home in somewhere like Mayfair.

[@gollycom]

I had my bicycle and I got there..🤡🤡🍌👸🏼👸🏼🍰🍰🎃🎃🎃🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🧨🎈🎈🎈🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🛴

[@adamknight7041]

@@gollycom , how did you navigate around the trees on your bike? Practically every road in southern England was impassable lol

[@gollycom]

@@adamknight7041 I put some frogspawn on my head. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🎄🎄🎄🎄🐭👽👽

[@highpath4776]

I was out in the suburbs and I managed to drive out to where I was working, about three quarters of staff got in but we had no power. As I had come in with a van I drove down to the nearest hire centre and got a generator, but full grid electric was on about 330pm. An overall interesting day, and with no great news did not know- until today really- how much of Central London had got damaged.

[@adamlea6339]

Psychotic managers with little sense of reality, nothing new here.

[@iqraiqra9172]

I remember my mum had to pick us up early from junior school on that day. The cement was coming off the walls of some houses and bricks

[@nicolek.3614]

Here in Florida, we call this Thursday.

[@lizhumphries9100]

I remember this

[@robertnixon8625]

At 8:22 "The new Big Bang technology wasn't working anyway" - It certainly was the following 'Black' Monday 19th Oct when the FTSE 100 fell 23%

[@highpath4776]

Because Asia had dropped on their Friday Morning, and the UK could not catch up.

[@GerryMcGarry]

It was the calm before the storm

[@denelson83]

Wasn't the Thames/LWT handover at 5:15, not 6:15?

[@11carbuff19572011]

It had been at 5:15 from the beginning of 1982. Michael Aspel headed the then new "Six O'clock Show" with the kind of format that we as a nation have been lacking extensively since the mid to late 80s. Janet Street-Porter (of "Loose Women" fame) co-presented, as did Fred Housego, the 1980 Mastermind winner & erstwhile London cabbie.

[@gollycom]

It was a giant queen ant. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜👑👸🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜👵👵👵👵👵🎃🎃🎃🎃🐸🐸📺📺📺🐍🌙🌙🌙🌙🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜👸

[@denelson83]

"Thames Weekend News"…? No LWT?

[@christopherhulse8385]

I understand Thames provided the weekend news for LWT.

[@jimbo6059]

For a while. Then as the situation worsened between Thames amd LWT, they decided to do their own news. With Anna-Marie Ashe.

[@cosmicleo3671]

Just 4 years later, Thames’ license is set to expire and the station’s fate is sealed. Coincidence, maybe...

[@matimus100]

Blessings come from Africa Tv !

[@dpf2122]

00:36 putting the weatherman on notice damn

[@andysmith5997]

I wonder if Keith Mc Dowell was in pain when he died? Hmmmm?

[@antman5474]

he'd have dealt with the past two years better than most of the world.

[@13strange67]

Love the 80s hair-do Tricia !

[@scook2003]

Jack you bastard, WTF happened 🤣🤣🤣

[@VKTHECHANNEL2022]

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[@iqraiqra9172]

Allah commands the wind sea or anything he pleases it happens