Preparing for the St Jude's Day storm? Take comfort from literature's greatest storm survivors

Stormy Sunday: Forecasters talk of heavy rains and strong winds in the South (PA)

With the great storm almost upon us, here is how some of literature's most famous creations reacted (in Twitter format, naturally) to the worst that weather could throw at them...

@RobinsonCrusoe: Such a dismal sight I never saw! The sea went mountains high, and broke upon us every three or four minutes

@RobinsonCrusoe: I was in tenfold more horror of mind....I can by no words describe it

@RobinsonCrusoe: In this agony of mind, I made many vows hat if it would please God to spare my life, I would go directly home to my father

@KingLear: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

@KingLear: Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!

@KingLear: You sulphrous and thought-executing fires, Singe my white head!

@Kent: @KingLear Things that love night Love not such nights as these

@Kent: @KingLear Since I was a man, such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder...I never remember to have heard

@Beowulfpoet: Winds bestir evil storms, and air grows dusk, and the heavens weep

@Gandalf: For behold! The storm comes and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed!

@Gandalf: Courage will be your best defence against the storm at hand

@Gimli: It was no ordinary storm. It was the ill will of Caradhras

@JaneEyre: Loud as the wind blew, near and deep as the thunder crashed, fierce and frequent as the lightning gleamed, I experienced no fear

@EllenDeanofWutheringHts: It was a very dark evening; the clouds appeared inclined to thunder, and I said we had better all sit down