Storm of 1703

I am the spirit of the great storm which swept over England in the year 1703. My dwelling was in the clouds, but my birth-place was in the earth. I rose out of the great Hartz forests, in Germany, and my first public manifestation was over the fair city of Magdeburg, in Prussia. There I shook down houses, and destroyed sixty of the inhabitants. I passed on to Hamburgh, and dealt similarly with that place. Then I crossed the sea, and alighted in London, where I continued to rage, until I was finally quenched, in the great storm of November. Since that time, I have been quiet, but not idle, for I have been busily engaged in instructing men to build houses, which shall stand firm, against me. My last charge