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So remarkable and signal a judgment of God on this nation, no history either foreign or domestic can parallel.

A matter of this important consequence must and will stand as a monument of the anger of heaven

just poured down upon this kingdom to all posterity. The tempest of which we are now about to speak, both by sea and land,

was universal, destructive, terrible, and amazing. That's from the opening pages of a pamphlet

that was published anonymously in 1704 in London, titled An Exact Relation of the Late Dreadful Tempest.

And the judgment sent by God, according to the author of this pamphlet, was the Great Storm

of 1703, the most devastating natural disaster ever to strike England and Wales.

I'm Sarah Churchwell.

Welcome to Journey Through Time.

And I'm David Olusiogger, and this is the second of our two episodes on the Great Storm. In the first episode, we used dramatic accounts written at the time, the most important of them by the great Daniel Defoe, to reveal what happened on the night of the storm, to paint a picture of that catastrophe. But we wanted in the second episode to paint a different picture, the picture of what England

and Wales looked like the morning after.

When the wind speeds dropped and the sun rose on the morning of the 27th of November, the day

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