Cruel Fate of a Family Who Were Looking for Safety As the Calm After the Storm Paints Islands in Their Best Light, Uists Mourn Tragedy of Three Lost Generations

The HeraldJanuary 14, 2005

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THERE was nothing of nature's violence yesterday. The Uists were bathed in winter sunshine. There was no breath of wind to turn the giant turbines at Liniclate. The seas were as still as they can be. The calm after the storm painted the islands in their best light.

It was perfect weather to begin the clear-up: shifting the tonnes of seaweed and stone that had spewed across the roads from the sea; relaying the tiles on every second house;

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Cruel Fate of a Family Who Were Looking for Safety As the Calm After the Storm Paints Islands in Their Best Light, Uists Mourn Tragedy of Three Lost Generations

straightening the fences which lay horizontal; encouraging the floodwaters to retreat.

But some things will not be so easily repaired. Three generations of one family had gone.

The deaths of Ar...

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