Mephisto
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What IS with the weather lately? I live in the SW U.S. and we were experiencing colder weather that the NE U.S. This is obviously no longer the case as the storm front has moved into the NW with frightening results leaving normally mild-weather areas like Texas blanketed with snow and ice.
I saw a video on CNN today about gale force winds in London and people were literally being blown off the streets. This article cites several deaths in the Netherlands attributed to weather-related accidents.
Whatever is happening, it appears that "Mother Nature" isn't very happy.
25 dead as storm batters Europe
POSTED: 5:09 p.m. EST, January 18, 2007
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Gale force winds and heavy downpours hammered northern Europe on Thursday, killing 25 people and disrupting travel for tens of thousands.
The storms were among the fiercest to batter northern Europe in years, ripping off part of the roof at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, toppling trucks on Europe's busiest highway and forcing trains in Germany and the Netherlands to a virtual standstill.
By evening, weather related accidents had killed 25 people, including a 2 year-old boy hit by falling brick from a crumpled wall in London.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's plane landed in gusts of up to 130 kph (77 mph).in London for a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair after she cut short a visit to Berlin to avoid the worsening weather.
"It's not often you get winds of that sort of strength that far inland," said John Hammond, the spokesman for Britain's weather office. "(Rice) did well to land there, I wouldn't have fancied doing that."
German meteorologists dubbed the storm "Cyril" and recorded gusts of up to 191 kph (118 mph), forcing dozens of flight cancellations, prompting the national railroad to suspend services and shutting schools.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/18/europe.storm.ap/index.html
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To all our European friends - bundle up and tie a heavy boulder to your ankle before venturing outdoors.
I saw a video on CNN today about gale force winds in London and people were literally being blown off the streets. This article cites several deaths in the Netherlands attributed to weather-related accidents.
Whatever is happening, it appears that "Mother Nature" isn't very happy.
25 dead as storm batters Europe
POSTED: 5:09 p.m. EST, January 18, 2007
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Gale force winds and heavy downpours hammered northern Europe on Thursday, killing 25 people and disrupting travel for tens of thousands.
The storms were among the fiercest to batter northern Europe in years, ripping off part of the roof at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, toppling trucks on Europe's busiest highway and forcing trains in Germany and the Netherlands to a virtual standstill.
By evening, weather related accidents had killed 25 people, including a 2 year-old boy hit by falling brick from a crumpled wall in London.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's plane landed in gusts of up to 130 kph (77 mph).in London for a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair after she cut short a visit to Berlin to avoid the worsening weather.
"It's not often you get winds of that sort of strength that far inland," said John Hammond, the spokesman for Britain's weather office. "(Rice) did well to land there, I wouldn't have fancied doing that."
German meteorologists dubbed the storm "Cyril" and recorded gusts of up to 191 kph (118 mph), forcing dozens of flight cancellations, prompting the national railroad to suspend services and shutting schools.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/18/europe.storm.ap/index.html
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To all our European friends - bundle up and tie a heavy boulder to your ankle before venturing outdoors.
Dude, it is winter time. That usually means . . . COLD. 
