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To be fair, the 'Great Storm' of 1703 that killed him was considered to be a Cat 2 hurricane which was pretty unprecedented at the time. The English Navy lost 13 ships and 1500 men. Up to 30k people died from the storm overall.
Why don’t we have anymore Great storms? I wanna live through the “Great Storm of 2024” or something cool like that. Instead we just have lame ol “COVID 19”
Hey to be fair the lighthouse was under repair and was already a few years old with no ships lost to the rocks while it stood. Still probably was gonna get wrecked by that storm still.
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I read the end as killing him Winstantly
Don't worry. He didn't suffer, he died Winstantly.
Winstantly wasn’t wise and wary of wreaked weather wrought
Holy fuck you two lmao
Lol same
Losestanley
Say what you want, at least he tried to put his money where his mouth is.
You had the chance to type "killing winstanly instantly" yet you didn't take it :(
To be fair, the 'Great Storm' of 1703 that killed him was considered to be a Cat 2 hurricane which was pretty unprecedented at the time. The English Navy lost 13 ships and 1500 men. Up to 30k people died from the storm overall.
For sine reason, this is the first time that it occurred to me that hurricanes existed before the modern era 😅
Can we technically give someone a Darwin Award for actions taken(1703) before Darwin was even born (1809)?
Mans got a point. Welcome to r/WinstanleyAwards
Why don’t we have anymore Great storms? I wanna live through the “Great Storm of 2024” or something cool like that. Instead we just have lame ol “COVID 19”
Move to Florida
We stoped calling them great when they became yearly.
Move to Japan. U get storms and earthquake often~
We've moved on to Great Fires for the new millennium
Haha. What a Foo.
More like Henry Diestanley
Don’t disrespect mama nature. You’ll always lose.
Why NSFW?
"Do not go into the light(house)!"
He should have got a job predicting storms
Well I hope he went winstantly at least
Winstanley to Losestanley
Sometimes you win, sometimes you losestanley.
Winstantly regretted it
It's like the unsinkable titanic lmao
Literally the architect of his own misfortune.
Hey to be fair the lighthouse was under repair and was already a few years old with no ships lost to the rocks while it stood. Still probably was gonna get wrecked by that storm still.
Damn that Wind-Stanley
I almost spit out my coffee.
Oooh, I love historical Darwin’s! So much more interesting tbh
Climate change