I cant remember, but can anyone remember when/if hail the size of golf balls rained down on old seven hills, or if a massive earthquake leveled the city ( ok, maybe not this) or any other `non-sheffield like weather occured` causing £xxxxx of damage or even life loss?

I cant remember, but can anyone remember when/if hail the size of golf balls rained down on old seven hills, or if a massive earthquake leveled the city ( ok, maybe not this) or any other `non-sheffield like weather occured` causing £xxxxx of damage or even life loss?
i remember when it used to snow so deep it came over your knees. also huge icicles on the front of houses.

if a massive earthquake leveled the city ( ok, maybe not this)
There was an earth tremor one night - about 4-5 years ago? It was strong enough for the bedroom walls to be visibly shaking.

There was an earth tremor one night - about 4-5 years ago? It was strong enough for the bedroom walls to be visibly shaking.

I remember that, I didn't feel anything - I sleep through anything!

But everybody at school was bragging how it was so bad there windows smashed and stuff.... :roll:

There was an earth tremor one night - about 4-5 years ago? It was strong enough for the bedroom walls to be visibly shaking.

This was actually located in the West Midlands. Wolverhampton?

But my bed lifted off the floor in Hillsborough. I was awake at the time. Think it was about 1 AM.
Edit:
here is a link to it (http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/macroseismics/dudley_macro.htm)

And another one (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2328911.stm)

Yeah, i was watching a film at the time, i wondered what the hell it was, all the ournaments in the house where shaking, i thought there had been an accident or something nearby, so went out to have a look, couldn't hear or see anything, so assumed it was an earthquake

It just doesn't snow like it used to as recently as about 15-20 years ago.

I remember we used to have deep, deep snowfalls which lasted for ages. Nowadays if we do get any snow it's usually a flurry which causes traffic hell but is gone in a few hours.

I even remember it snowing heavily at the end of April once, think it was 1981, which caused football matches to be called off.

I remember that, I didn't feel anything - I sleep through anything!

But everybody at school was bragging how it was so bad there windows smashed and stuff.... :roll:


same here, i slept through it all, went to school the next day and all my mates were like ' did you see things bouncing around?' lol :rolleyes:

There was an earth tremor one night - about 4-5 years ago? It was strong enough for the bedroom walls to be visibly shaking.

That's the only time my wife said that the earth really had moved for her !!

The last time we had real snow was the winter of 96/97 I remember is started snowing the day before NY Eve & just didn't stop - it was fabulous !

I remember the Sheffield Gale in the early 1960s. Lots of trees were brought down and our school was closed.
I was only 5 at the time but I remember dustbin lids and chimney pots flying past the window.

I remember a huge rainstorm about 7 or 8 years ago where is rained heavier than I have ever seen anywhere before. Real Monsoon-type rain. It only rained for about an hour but as my home is in one of the lower parts of Sheffield the rain flowed down off the surrounding hills, overwhelming the drainage system and causing a 10 foot fountain of water to shoot out of the manhole outside my house. By the time the rain stopped the road was under 3 foot of water and had caved in right down the middle.

I remember the tremmor, think it affected quite a stretch of the north

I remember a huge rainstorm about 7 or 8 years ago where is rained heavier than I have ever seen anywhere before. Real Monsoon-type rain. It only rained for about an hour but as my home is in one of the lower parts of Sheffield the rain flowed down off the surrounding hills, overwhelming the drainage system and causing a 10 foot fountain of water to shoot out of the manhole outside my house. By the time the rain stopped the road was under 3 foot of water and had caved in right down the middle.

:shocked: I think I remember that, the bottom of my road ended up like a shallow lake, but no where near that bad. I think we got lucky as our area is quite hilly. I also remember the tremor. I slept thru it, but I remember everyone talking about it the next day.

I remember the Sheffield Gale in the early 1960s. Lots of trees were brought down and our school was closed.
I was only 5 at the time but I remember dustbin lids and chimney pots flying past the window.
Yeah, and stacks of Prefabs got mullered !

This was actually located in the West Midlands. Wolverhampton?

But my bed lifted off the floor in Hillsborough. I was awake at the time. Think it was about 1 AM.
Edit:
here is a link to it (http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/macroseismics/dudley_macro.htm)

And another one (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2328911.stm)
It was Dudley actually but my wardrobe doors were clattering open and shut and thought a stray cat was hiding in there....after checking it was empty I told my wife it may have been a mini earthquake, and i found out I was right the next morning.

i remember that two years ago it was quite deep but about 11 years ago i went to me grans at lodge moor it was incredibley deep

yes the mini earth quake was strange i was in my bed and the house moved thought i was my imagination

I've been around with 3 earthquakes in the UK.

First that I remember was in Newport, Gwent in about 1990 and I was sat on my chair and really hungry (I remember I didn't have breakfast). The chair moved a bit and I thought "Jeez my sugar level is low"!!!

Second one was in my parents house near Melton Mowbray about 4 years ago and the noise was really loud. I was packing the kids clothes and they'd just come upstairs. My dad shouted at the kids for banging up the stairs. It was actually the pictures on their wall banging to and fro against the wall!

Then there was another, maybe before this one, I was living in Birmingham and it was about 1am. We had just "cough" finished the business and the wardrobe doors were banging together and I said to hubby "blimey, lets go again"!

I heard a right row outside and all the neighbours were out asking if everyone else had heard the row! I thought we'd been spectacular but obviously not!!! LOL

I remember a huge rainstorm about 7 or 8 years ago where is rained heavier than I have ever seen anywhere before. Real Monsoon-type rain. It only rained for about an hour but as my home is in one of the lower parts of Sheffield the rain flowed down off the surrounding hills, overwhelming the drainage system and causing a 10 foot fountain of water to shoot out of the manhole outside my house. By the time the rain stopped the road was under 3 foot of water and had caved in right down the middle.
Wise man say buy house at top of hill not bottom

I would recommend anyone getting hold of a copy of 'an inconvenient truth' and sitting and watching it.

It's one of the most thought provoking, and even scarier TRUE movies of all time and explains a lot about recent changes in weather and other things.

Sithee ere for stuff on't hurricane in 1962 .... http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=9475&highlight=gale