Hurricane warning for Germany (18-20.Jan.2007)

Was this a birch, or more a branch?
P.S. Still blowing a gale in Lohhof.

sorry my english is not so good as the native speakers. But I don't no the name of the tree that hit him, it was the big part of the twig!!! Stay inside, this will save your lives!!! This is a serious message!!! This is crazy!!!

sitting here with a helles and a twig victim, watching the reports on the telly, they are outside - lunes?? But they get loads of money, hopefully they survive. Stay indoors!!! This is mad, I've never seen anything like this ever, 185 kmph!!!

Dude, you're on drugs or something. Or maybe you need to be.

Yeah pass the pipe or take a lude man.

One of my LNBs has broken off my satellite dish Hope Grinner installed one of those hurricane-proof dishes
Shit - hope the thing don't break off!

erm so did anyone notice the lack of hurricane/wind/gale/weather at all or clouds in Berlin last night?

I am a little jealous of all you Munich people who got some extreme weather but im also happy nothing really serious (apart from the lack of satellite tv) happened.

I take it thats it then.. no more "hurricanes"?

Bah, hardly. Was gusty, but nothing serious and certainly no need for people to go home from work.

I've been in a minor hurricane, and last night was nothing. Probably just a strong gale not even a storm. Very dissapointing

I'm not disappointed, am glad it wasn't worse. some people weren't so lucky.
and I got to leave work early!

Must have been a big relief for all those overworked EPO people yaesterday to get a break.

Leeza, great explanation for tornadoes only you forgot one thing -

The sky turns a sickly dark grey-green and you can literally feel the pressure change if you're outside. The scent in the air changes and if you've been in/around a tornado before, the hair on your arms stands up because you can almost see the electrical current in the air change.

Having lived in Georgia, seen too many tornadoes to count (been stuck in / near 5 that did damage to neighbors houses and sheds - the worst of which was an f4 which ripped the roof off of the school I was in) you learn to listen to that feeling really quick.

Re was this a hurricane.. um.. well, last night was nothing compared to the rememants of hurricane Opal (3 on the hurricane scale) that helped encourage me to move to a non weather driven state (Utah). I will however say that for here, yes, the weather was bad. For where I've grown up, perspective wise - nope, it was just a little rain with some wind. aka Huff and Puff Big bad wolf - my house is built of brick.

Good Luck to y'all farther south getting the rest of it today.
~Rose

Anyone knows when are the (long distance) trains working again? I've been trying to call the DB hotline but can't get through.

We're overworked?

The main reasons people were let go early were:

• the threat of trains not running and a lot of people live outside the city centre and further afield, so rather than have them stranded and unable to get home, let them toddle off earlier
• the schools closing early and folk not being able to pick their children up on time - also the reason so many people will be working from home today

i left early because i knew DB would over exaggerate everything. sure enough, the regional trains (s-bahns) were all late going towards mannheim. going towards karlsruhe already 15 minutes late starting at 3.30 in the afternoon! friends wanted to go back to heidelberg from MA at 10 p.m. and they canceled all regional trains. they managed with the OEG (a s-bahn that serves the area b/t MA & HD, but used the old tracks), but they were nearly stranded.

what a farce.

however, one person near HD was killed when a big tree fell on their car. so...

go to their website if you can. at least they announced all trains being canceled last night. they started running them up again this morning. i got the(regional/s-bahn) train to work at 9 a.m. the regional trains before were all canceled.

ya, read their website and status unchanged for long distance trains just thot that perhaps someone has new news before their website administrator

Most peopel were killed in accidents involving flying objects. If there hadn't have been warnings it would have been worse. A twig flying at you at 130kmh does not tickle. Though why the bloody schools are shut I've no idea. Snow next week, and I guess the current weather in the US will shit over to us in a couple of weeks.

You scaremongerer Gids. Snow! Eeewww.
But on the whole we should be glad that it turned out a lot less serious than they told us. It also moved past more quickly than they forecast.

33 peeps dead so far

Just want to say that trains are running. I'm sitting on one going south now. It went very well until Hannover, we have to wait

Edit: and now, we're moving!

was this a typo?

Well spotted Elf. I now realise that I originally missed readling the "to" in that sentence. Made perfect sense.

From Sbahn Muenchen (sorry I cant be arsed at the mo to translate)

Guten Tag, sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir bedanken uns bei Ihnen für Ihre Geduld und die gute Kooperation gestern und heute. Wir wünschen Ihnen auch trotz der negativen Ereignisse noch ein schönes, erholsames Wochenende. Herzliche Grüße Ihr Service-Dialog

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Since when does the US shit over other people?