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Day 42

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On January 15th 1968 Scotland  awoke to a storm, that left over 2,000 people homeless and killed 20 across the country.

Homes, shops, cars and churches were all desolated by the strong gusts brought on by Hurricane Low Q, which first hit land on the night of 14 January 1968. With Glasgow and the Strathclyde area first in the line of fire, winds of over 100mph caused havoc by knocking over chimneys and punching holes into the roofs below them. Cars became entombed in stones, with winds so strong that even bootlids and body panels were torn loose.

By the end of the evening, nine Glaswegians had lost their lives, 69 tenements were now to be demolished and a thousand chimney heads had crumbled into buildings. A couple died in Edinburgh after a chimney stack came crashing through their ceiling.

It is said it was probably modern Scotland’s biggest natural disaster. And yet few people south of Carlisle seem to know of it. aboard a dredger that capsized off Greenock. At least another 100 were seriously injured and 1,800 made homeless. The wind tore down shipyard cranes and electricity pylons, church spires and school roofs, and ripped the glass from the big greenhouses of the upper Clyde valley, which then supplied Scotland with all of its tomatoes. Four per cent of Scotland’s commercial forests, equivalent to 18 months’ timber production, got flattened. A quarter of a million houses were damaged, more than 1,300 beyond repair.

And the death toll did not stop after the winds died - more than 30 others lost their lives repairing the damage, 11 of them while carrying out roof repairs.

In Glasgow alone, more than 300 homes were totally destroyed and around 70,000 were damaged, leaving nearly 2000 people homeless.

Overall, some 250,000 houses in Central Scotland were affected, many of the occupants being forced to live with make-shift tarpaulin roofs for a lengthy period.

Repair costs eventually rose to almost £30m.

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