____ Britain is a place that rarely has extreme weather, there have been a few exceptions over the years. They include the great storm of October1987. Dozens of people were ____ killed or injured and billions of pounds of damage was caused to buildings ____ property. The bad weather began over the Bay of Biscay. ____ increasing in strengh for a few days, this became a huge storm which started to move north. ____, on the evening of 15 October it hit the English Channel. Neither the BBC nor the Meteorological Office had predicted the storm earlier. ____, when it arrived, nobody was prepared. Suddenly, in the middle of the night, hurricane winds ____ torrencial rain swept over southern England. London was badly affected ____ of the large number of tree-lined streets. The winds were ____ strong that thousends of trees were knocked over, falling on top of cars ____ buildings that were close to them.____ the torm there were power cuts as the high winds and falling trees destroyed electric cables. As a ____, many places were in complete darkness, which made things difficult for ____ the fire and the ambulance services. Surprisingly, even ____ there were hurricane force winds throughout the night, several people were completely unaware of what was happening. Not ____ did they sleep through the storm, they didn't even hear the falling trees crashing onto their cars on the street. Of course, as ____ as they woke up, they received a nasty shock!

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