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Great Storms of the British Isles

Gales and high tides at Blackpool in September 2011. (John Giles, PA Wire/AP Images)

It doesn’t seem quite fair. The UK gets Skyfall. We get Hurricane Sandy.

But then again, Brits have weathered their share of perfect storms, and, seeing as the weather is stereotypically a favorite topic of the English, we here at Anglophenia thought we’d take a look at some of those instances when it’s ...