Storm Gerrit: Residents forced to leave homes after ‘tornado’ hits Greater Manchester

Right some of the neighbors houses are an absolute disaster the roofs missing Gable ends gone cars were squished with all the stone and that’s come off the houses for the fire service with police ambulance and they let us go in and get some toothbrushes and a couple of

Personal effects and that was it it was dark so we could see big piles of Dey and and people’s bits of houses missing and we’re not sure when we can get back in

A “localised tornado” damaged around 100 properties in Greater Manchester as Storm Gerrit swept the country, with thousands of homes remaining without power and travellers likely to face continued disruption.

The storm brought heavy snow across parts of Scotland which, along with high winds and heavy rain, damaged electricity networks in the country as fallen trees, branches and other debris brought down power lines.

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12 comments

  6. The weirdest tornado I have seen. Brick wall really??!! It only affected small area. I smell something fishy.

  8. Nothing to see here folks -its just more wind and rain as has happened throughout my 60 years of life and forever before that.

  9. Stop the stratospheric aerosol injection otherwise known as geo engineering & we will have less of this weather.
    & if you think this is a conspiracy then pull your head out yer arse cause it’s happening all over the world.

  11. The Lamestream media give the weather names like Katrina or Fred or whatever
    This is so it appears worse than it is
    People are starting to reject the nonsense
    As they have pushed it too hard blaming people for everything
    Merry Christmas everyone
    We’ll be under water this time next year (JOKE)

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