No Respite As Blizzards, Ice and Fog Give Way to Killer Hurricane and More Chaos ; As Anton Rippon Reaches the End of His Look Back at the Worst Winter in Living Memory, He Tells How the Weather Had One More Trick Up Its Sleeve to Add to the Chaos That Had Ravaged the County.

Derby Evening Telegraph › January 03, 2011

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AMAZINGLY, the weather had not finished its work just yet.

As if fog, blizzards, subzero temperatures and floods were not enough, on the night of Sunday, March 16, a 98mph hurricane left a trail of death and destruction across the country.

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No Respite As Blizzards, Ice and Fog Give Way to Killer Hurricane and More Chaos ; As Anton Rippon Reaches the End of His Look Back at the Worst Winter in Living Memory, He Tells How the Weather Had One More Trick Up Its Sleeve to Add to the Chaos That Had Ravaged the County.

Derby did not escape and, at Chellaston, 49-year-old electrician Thomas Harrison, of High Street, was killed after being hit on the head by a tree branch. Mr Harrison, who was unmarried and had spent 25 years in the Royal Navy,...

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