I think that may be the freak storm I was thinking of - I've read accounts here and there, and there was a book about a National Heritage house I read that lost a lot of trees in it, IIRC.

My biggest acquaintance with freak UK weather was the three weeks I spent in Shropshire working with teh Shropshire Archives for an internship. Mom came along, because she's an Anglophile, and we spent the week afterwards traveling. We were all excited that we were going to get out of Texas heat during the month of ... August 2003. *twitch* *twitch* *twitch*