Big Wind Storm In Europe - Page 1

I know that this is not dog related, but I hope everyone, and your dogs too, are safe! Is this a tornado or a big thunderstorm? (An Orkan?) Dawn Bonome

The storm was actually a long trough of fast moving air. Some winds were clocked at greater than 120 mph. Reports are that 40 people were killed in several countries, including Germany. Winds of this magnitude are above hurricane force. There was a lot of damage and power lines, trees, train service, roads etc. were shut down. I spoke to a friend in Germany who was going to help her mother and it was very bad. The weather channel on TV actually showed radar of the storm. It was very large and covered many countries as it moved from west to east.

Oh yeah I had saw that somewhere. That really stinks! I live in FL and have been in 7 hurricanes and the recent tornados that came through here. Hope eveyone is ok over there!

I just left Germany and Czech a couple weeks ago. Luckily when we were there only rain, snow and wind, but nothing at this magnatude. You can look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_windstorm Interestong site regarding the European windstorms. Uwe

I just got of the phone with my relatives in Germany and England they all had a terrible storm and a lot of damage to there property,trees electric power lines down,it came so fast up on them. They have never had that kind of storm experienced it normally happens on the coastal area so they where totally surprised. Nature is playing a complete new act it is they say the greenhouse effect the icebergs are melting,and much more to come.No injuries to my people.The rest can be restored.

www.dw-world.de

The English version of Deutsche Welle: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2317752,00.html

It hit us hard on the south coast, even though I live in the Midlands, I was down there working. Ports and container ports were shut in Portsmouth, Southampton (where I had a very close call) and Bornemouth/Poole. As I drive for a living, the wind tried to turn me over a couple of times, but luckily never suceeded. Though apparently its going to get worse for us with the winds picking up again this weekend and then changing direction on us from a westerly to a notherly. Which means it looks like snow down here in the midlands and east anglia. I hope though that everyone with either relatives or that live here in the UK and Europe managed to get through the worst winds since 1990 without too much damage. Jeff Northcott (Rivancodex GSD)

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Here in the North West of England we had it bad, some folk in wales still without electricity and our water is very low pressure. One lady killed by falling wall 1 mile from me, a guy killed in Manchester, Lots of tree damage around here. Ariel came off roof, tree down and Wysteria blown off back of house bringing down three security lights and making a hole in the decking! Dogs all thought it was great and wanted to go walkies in it! Made them all stay indoors so they sat watching it through the french windows most of the day, until the Wysteria fell down! Wind speeds here were 99mph so we got off lightly with only seven killed and trains buses and planes delayed or stopped. Holland and Germany coped it bad too. Still extremely windy, with more storms forecasted, not expected to be as bad as that one though.