Strong winds and heavy rainfall Motion inundated Filling streets , residences , and fields , and also toppled Destroying chimneys , fences , and cracked Destroying windows across the region .

The British response to guerilla warfare was to set up Reforming_a_system complex nets of block houses , strong points , and barbed wire fences , partitioning off the entire conquered Conquering territory .

The maximum permitted field of 40 runners ran Self_motion the last-ever of Aintree 's National Course featuring 30 fences , competing Competition for record prize money of £975,000 , making it Causation the highest-valued National Hunt race in the United Kingdom .

The changes Change included reducing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the severity of some of the fences , raising Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the minimum age of participating Participation horses from six to seven years old , and requiring all runners to have previously been placed Placing in a recognised steeplechase of at least three miles .

Elsewhere , Bobby knocked out Destroying power and water supplies , unroofed Destroying houses , tore Destroying off rain gutters , toppled Destroying fences , and smashed Destroying windows .