I was going to pretend that I was also too young to remember anything but then; you all know how old I am so that won't work
I was working in Newcastle that week and I remember waking up in my hotel room during the night and thinking it was a bit windy
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I got up in the morning and turned the TV on as usual to watch the breakfast news and I couldn't find anything on. Eventually, someone came on broadcasting from a cupboard somewhere (or that's what it seemed like) Anyway, I went to work as normal but couldn't fly home because all the airports were either shut or running a reduced service so I had to drive back down to the south (Andover)
Everything started off well but as we got closer to the south of England we encountered all sorts of carnage, trees and powerlines down, "dead" cars at the side of the road etc... It looked like a scene from a disaster movie. I don't think we had any electricity for at least a week but, as I remember it was a beautiful sunny day on the Saturday.
Ah... yes, I remember it well (wasn't that a song?)