Hurricane force winds like Sandy? - we get them here too they're just not called hurricanes!

Just as well this sort of depression doesn't hit the coast here too often - Hurricane Sandy's got nothing on this low which hit the west coast of the UK on the 9th January 1993 as seen in the surface analysis chart...

it was predicted to go much lower within 48 hours as this printout from the Fleet and Oceanographic Centre at Northwood shows...

luckily it never hit 911 - note the extreme winds given around the centre of the low.