The Great Bletsoe Storm

The Great Bletsoe Storm was a large storm which happened on 26th December 2000, and which was destructive in parts of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Hertfordshire, in England. The storm was a combination of a large thunderstorm, gail force winds, and heavy rain. The village of Bletsoe in Bedfordshire was the worst hit settlement anywhere in the strom's path, and four people who lived in the village were killed. There were no deaths anywhere else but Bletsoe. The disaster is still known as The Great Bletsoe Storm by many people who lived there that witnessed it. Many buildings in Bletsoe were badly damaged, and a couple even collapsed. There was a christmas social party at the village hall on the same night, and one person was kiiled, and many were injured, when the roof fell through after being severley struck by lightning. Many tress all over the village, and the County, were knocked down by both lightning and winds, and even by both in Bletsoe itself. Three street lamps in Bletsoe were knocked down. A married couple who lived in Bletsoe at the time, Mr and Mrs Buttons, were driving back from a relatives when they crashed their car into a ditch, after swerving to avoid a falling tree. The ditch they crashed into was on Coplowe Lane, a country lane just outside the village that leads into it. They were trapped in their car for the night, and were found the following morning when the storm had died down. When they were discovered, Mr Buttons had already died from blood loss through his legs. The village hall was rebuilt, and the disater became a fixed point in Bletsoe history. The storm happened nearly 20 years after the 1981 Bletsoe Plane Crash, which killed fourteen people.

See Also
*Bletsoe
*Bedfordshire
*Storm
*List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom

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