The German set his time in the second of the two sessions, the first having been affected by persistent drizzle – a possible portent of conditions for Sunday.
Steve Barry, Sussex police assistant chief constable, who is co-ordinating an emergency services group, stressed that the likelihood of people having been affected was "very small".
Having been affected by 19th-century pietism and revivalism, contemporary Holiness churches tend to stand closer, doctrinally speaking, to fundamentalism than to their Methodist antecedents.
"There are also reports of other businesses having been affected, including in the fresh produce, pharmaceutical, tourism and hospitality industries, not to mention the self-employed and holidaymakers.
The Pistorius family released a statement on Wednesday night saying that they were "not aware of any deletions having been affected by Oscar or effected on his instructions that could be relevant to this trial".
The Vanuatu lands minister, Ralph Regenvanu, said the government regarded the entire population of about 266,000 people as having been affected by the huge storm, which ripped through the South Pacific archipelago on Friday night and into Saturday.
