Hadlow Tower, which formed part of Hadlow Castle, was badly damaged in the great storm of 1987.
For two centuries, Chanctonbury was the best-known landmark of the South Downs, but in 1987 the Great Storm blew in and wrecked the Ring.
Snow storms on Jersey damaged power lines and left about 200 homes without power, and Jersey Electricity said the conditions were the worst it had experienced since the Great Storm of 1987.
As Holdren and Beddington note, the solar maximum, and increased possibility of a great geomagnetic storm, is fast approaching, now less than a year away.
The Canadian economy and Canada's banks weathered the great financial storm of 2007-08 in better shape than pretty much every other major developed economy, with the possible exception of Australia.
The last time a "great geomagnetic storm" unleashed such energy on the earth (thereafter known as a Carrington Event for the British scientist who first detected it) was September 1, 1859.
White House Science Advisor John Holdren and Sir John Beddington, Science Advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a recent joint article "Celestial Storm Warnings" published in the New York Times, warned that a solar flare from the Sun could cause a great geomagnetic storm, with catastrophic consequences for the United States and the world.
Many cities in the Northeast and Great Lakes region collect storm water to clean it in wastewater treatment centers.
Still, the Hurricane-cum tropical storm caused a great deal of damage, leaving 21 dead, thousands of destroyed houses, millions without electricity, and whole towns flooded.
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This evening, in Midland Beach, New York, on a street lined with houses and businesses devastated by the storm, a great big Christmas tree shines out of the darkness.
Most recently, two people died and eight were injured when a storm struck Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Thursday night, park officials said.
But tomorrow and the next day will bring more news of the full extent of death and destruction that the storm caused, and a great need for rebuilding, and preparation for the next disaster in a world of increasingly wild weather.
Storm surges have the potential to be dangerous because they involve a great upwelling of a stretch of ocean - intense low pressure at the heart of a storm literally tugs the sea surface above its normal level to create a massive bulge.
In the eye, one side of the storm has passed and there is great relief.
But severe storms are possible along a line from the southern Great Lakes to the Louisiana coast, the Storm Prediction Center said.
Alex Sosnowski, a meteorologist for Accuweather, said the storm will push off into the Great Lakes and central Appalachians, and freezing rain could make it as far east and south as North Carolina.
This summer, two of them merged to form a single oval, larger than the earth, making the second-biggest storm in the solar system after the Great Red Spot.
The collection contains data on about 900 bird species, some of which -- the Guadalupe storm-petrel, Labrador duck, Guadalupe caracara, great auk, Carolina parakeet and passenger pigeon -- have gone extinct.
However, Sandy is making a left turn inland, and the storm is now seen as stretching all the way to the Great Lakes.
For days the bullhorn of traditional media provided a great service and allowed us to make choices about how we faced the storm.
"This was a storm that obviously came upon us very quickly, without a great deal of notice, and the devastation that was caused is very significant, " New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said, noting there's a particular need for fuel, generators and communications equipment in light of the storms.
Monday's storm brought to mind the devastating twister outbreak that ripped through the Great Plains in May of 1999, killing at least 44 people.
That must be a great process they follow, or an outstanding manual they have for these post-storm situations.
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Nobody's worrying about another Great Depression like they were just a year ago, and the worst of the storm has passed.
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