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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / January 2005PING: Buropeans
Did you survive the wild winds, icy temepratures and blizzards? The news said that 12 people had died as a result of the wild weather in Northern Europe. Hopeing you & your masters are OK. That with the floods in the USA and the bushfires here in Oz (In South Australia, nowhere near any Aussie posters I know of), it seems the world's weather has truly gone mad. Yowie > Did you survive the wild winds, icy temepratures and blizzards? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Australia, nowhere near any Aussie posters I know of), it seems the world's > weather has truly gone mad. glad to hear you or anyone else we know are not near those bushfires. 7 were killed here in Sweden directly from the strong winds, trees falling on cars and other stuff, a couple of more lives lost in the aftermath. there are more trees down than ever at least in the last 100 years (Sweden has quite a lot of forest) After the winds hit during last weekend some train lines are still not opened but filled in with buses. Smaller roads and electric lines still not cleared (we still have a lot of electricity lines "in the air", with loss of power also phone services have been affected). They are evacuating elderly and sick that are without electricity, in some areas. Some places will be without electricity for weeks. The worst weather here hit the south of Sweden, where I live but I am still away for holidays up north so I didn't see it. Denmark also got it quite bad, Estonia and Letvia too were they also lost elecetricity supply for a majority of people. I know strong winds are expected again tomorrow, Norway to take the worst this time, not as strong winds as before but still storm. I think the UK had some flooding? and it's been coming down hard in Californa too? Not to mention in some of the tsunami stricken areas ... wild weather all around it seems ... purrs for all :: lewe ------------------------------------------------------------- lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi Purrs going out to all of you in Europe, Australia, California, et al. Christine > > Did you survive the wild winds, icy temepratures and blizzards? > > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------- > lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi There have been some mudslides in Southern California, due to heavy rains. It has been raining almost daily on an intermittent basis since December 26th, and it has been what passes for cold, around here. (Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and Danes, and people living near the Canadian border in the U.S. would all laugh hysterically at what Californians consider "cold", though.) Next to the Tsunami victims, we're fine. Except for people whose houses are somewhat farther downhill than they used to be. But it seems like the world weather is throwing fits at large numbers of people in different places. Kinda scary. Melissa Thanks for your concern. The next gale force winds (under 23 m/s)/storm winds (25 m/s) are expected in the Baltic Sea and Archipelago during this following night and tomorrow. The winds will be strong also over land, but not as severe as on the sea. Vantaa is about 30 km (abt 20 miles) inland, north of Helsinki. Here's the weather warnings of FMI http://www.fmi.fi/weather/warning.html  SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) yahoo (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 Yikes!! Does this go on very much during winter there or is it unusally fierce? Man, STAY INDOORS! Karen > Thanks for your concern. The next gale force winds (under 23 m/s)/storm > winds (25 m/s) are expected in the Baltic Sea and Archipelago during [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Here's the weather warnings of FMI > http://www.fmi.fi/weather/warning.html > Yikes!! Does this go on very much during winter there or is it unusally > fierce? Man, STAY INDOORS! > > Karen I think this is unusually fierce. And yes, I wish I could stay indoors, but my boss might disagree if I called her and told her I won't be coming to work due to the wind... :) The winds are actually not *that* fierce inland, like where I'm at, but still my extra pounds actually come in handy now, as they anchor me more firmly onto the ground. :D SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) yahoo (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 > > Yikes!! Does this go on very much during winter there or is it unusally > > fierce? Man, STAY INDOORS! [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > fierce inland, like where I'm at, but still my extra pounds actually > come in handy now, as they anchor me more firmly onto the ground. :D Hey! You have lots of new Nico pics!! >>>Yikes!! Does this go on very much during winter there or is it unusally >>>fierce? Man, STAY INDOORS! [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Hey! You have lots of new Nico pics!! Yep, a grey kitty is easier to photograph than a black one. Besides Laku doesn't like being photographed and Nico doesn't seem to mind that much. I've got quite a few I haven't uploaded yet too, of both kitties actually. Will do it as soon as I find the time. SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) yahoo (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 > Hey! You have lots of new Nico pics!! Hey! Yeah! Aww, he's a gorgeous little boy. LOL about the washbasin. What is it with cats and washbasins? Nikki likes to lie in them too. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > Did you survive the wild winds, icy temepratures and blizzards? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Yowie It was certainly a wild night, I thought at one point that the windows were going to blow in, but we escaped with nothing worse than a few tiles lost from the roof. Three people dead in Carlisle though, which was very badly flooded, and about 100 miles north of here. Jeanette |
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