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    Jersey residents say Storm Ciaran is ‘worse than’ Great Storm of 1987



    Storm Ciaran has hit the island of Jersey, destroying homes and forcing residents to evacuate from their homes.

    The streets are strewn with bricks and tiles from surrounding buildings, and centuries-old trees have been destroyed by winds reaching speeds of up to 104mph.

    Many island residents have never experienced such a severe weather event, with one telling Sky’s Ashna Hurynag that Storm Ciaran is “worse than” the Great Storm of 1987.

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    9. Benjie's been better. on

      So many comments playing "Our storm was bigger than yours". That's no co solation to anyone with all their windows smashed and their roof gone. Since when did we lose our ability to just sympathise rather than make a crisis competition out of things?

    12. The Zerastora on

      Looks like the uk…. Why do we get so excited about these things. People behave like we don’t get the same weather 200miles away.

      We live on a small island, nothing exciting here.

    16. Lord Walsallian on

      Good God! Bless the people of Jersey and i'm not belittling the damage or severity of what happened but if the eye of that storm had been further north those winds could have hit major urban areas in the South and Central England. Imagine those winds and a potential tornado hitting the West Midlands County, Bristol, Cardiff or London. We dodged a bullet there. Where i live got off pretty much unscathed. Heart goes out to those in Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney. ❤

    17. Karl Howard on

      One word…….Terrifying……..I counted every minute I was safe……it was utterly devastating….my heart goes out to my not so lucky fellow islanders…..

    19. Storm Dennis on

      Both 1987 and Ciaran peaked with the same central pressure of 953mb and both likely managed to mix down similar winds to the bottom 10m level of the atmosphere – the difference between the two was that Ciaran took a slightly more southerly track than 1987 which is why the Channel Islands managed to get the worst of it.

    22. darren voysey on

      1987,…a storm is on its way…thankfully, most people heeded the warning of the met office supercomputer…ironically of all of the names from a-z the storm was named ciaran – especially when london experienced storm ciara – (when the years old tree fell onto the car)…irony!…it's weird how u have to get to beaufort scale 6, for it to become even troubling, let alone amber, yellow and red warnings…1.2 billion from the storm of 1953

    26. mostlykeith on

      1987 storm was much worse… I was out in it on La Collette reclamation site battling for three hours ‘at its hight’ to save the Colvic UFO 27 hull & deck yacht kit I’d just bought…

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