Hundreds of Homeless People Spend Night of Terror London, Feb, 14.
The bursting of coast defences and extensive damage to coastal resorts were some of the consequences of a gale which battered the east coast of England all day and night yesterday.
The storm, which caused fifty ves sels to mass at Folkestone for shelter, was the worst experienced for forty years.
Hundreds of people, made homeless by the sea, spent a night of terror.
Many bathing huts were smashed at imsgate, while Margate's ten-mile sea front was strewn with the wreckage of numerous small boats.
Several Royal Air Force planes, pegged down outside their hangars at Manston aerodrome, were badly damaged by the gale.
One hundred and fifty villagers at Horsey, Norfolk, were forced to eva-enate when the sea forced a gap three miles wide and rushed five miles inland.
Many cattle were drowned at Winterton, where twenty square miles were flooded by the sea.
London had a week-end of alarm. The Thames reached the highest level since the 1928 disaster, but there was no serious mishap, although there was much flooding at Twickenham, Rother-hithe and other suburbs.
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