Debbie1986

This storm is most probably my earliest memory. I was 3 at the time, my younger sister was only just over 2 months old and my older sister had just started school. At the time my dad was working for a bank and he had gone into work that day but was finishing early because of the storm. We only had 1 car at the time so my mum had the car that day (I think she must have taken us with her to drop him off but that part I can't remember). We went to pick him up from work before going to collect my older sister from school, my younger sister was in the front passenger seat and I was sat behind the drivers seat. My mum always let my dad drive when he was in the car but usually she would move my sister into the back of the car but because of the weather she decided not to and she sat in the back with me which ended up being the best thing she could have done as whilst we were travelling along the main road to my older sister's school a tree fell and landed diagonally across the car above mine and my younger sisters heads missing us by no more that 2 inches, if my mum had been sat in the front she would have been killed but instead we all escaped with no injuries and just to make things even better the top of the tree landed in the carpark of the local doctors surgery and so within seconds we were surrounded by nurses and doctors who were able to verify that we were all completely uninjured which really put my parents mind at rest because they thought that my younger sister might have got shards of glass in her eyes. I can't remember anything else from that day though