We've had a hurricane!
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:59 am
We had a hurricane here yesterday! 
We can have pretty bad weather around here, but rarely as strong as a real hurricane. It's been some years since we had one as bad as this. Luckily we weren't badly hit, here at my parent's, but I know it was a lot worse along the coast. Here there were mostly trees that were torn up, all though my father had to get up at 1 a.m. to check, as he was afraid the wind would blow the windows in, and that it would take the little house we have out in the garden. I worried mostly about my car. But we didn't lose anything. It was worse with the indoor soccer field not far from here. It broke down completely! We had to go there to look today, and it was just gone! You can see a pic of it here (the text is in Norwegian though). They are really unlucky there. Two years ago the same soccer field broke down because of lots and lots of heavy snow on the roof. If they have to rebuild it every other year, it will get expensive for them in the long run... 
And here is something else to watch. I must admit I am fascinated by it all, but I am chewing my nails off when I think about what it's like at home (I am at my parent's for the vacation). I know the weather was pretty bad there too, all though not exactly a hurricane. I don't know if there's a power outage (we had two of them last night here), and I worry about all my fishes and tanks. 
I have nobody who can check it out for me before the 29th. And there are some trees that can get uprooted and hit my house too... I hate not being at home when really bad weather hits! I can't see for myself what has happened, and fix things that needs fixing at once. There's a new storm coming in tonight, but not as bad as last night. Wow, this is some kind of Christmas weather! Keep your fingers crossed for my dear fishes back home!
We can have pretty bad weather around here, but rarely as strong as a real hurricane. It's been some years since we had one as bad as this. Luckily we weren't badly hit, here at my parent's, but I know it was a lot worse along the coast. Here there were mostly trees that were torn up, all though my father had to get up at 1 a.m. to check, as he was afraid the wind would blow the windows in, and that it would take the little house we have out in the garden. I worried mostly about my car. But we didn't lose anything. It was worse with the indoor soccer field not far from here. It broke down completely! We had to go there to look today, and it was just gone! You can see a pic of it here (the text is in Norwegian though). They are really unlucky there. Two years ago the same soccer field broke down because of lots and lots of heavy snow on the roof. If they have to rebuild it every other year, it will get expensive for them in the long run... And here is something else to watch. I must admit I am fascinated by it all, but I am chewing my nails off when I think about what it's like at home (I am at my parent's for the vacation). I know the weather was pretty bad there too, all though not exactly a hurricane. I don't know if there's a power outage (we had two of them last night here), and I worry about all my fishes and tanks. I have nobody who can check it out for me before the 29th. And there are some trees that can get uprooted and hit my house too... I hate not being at home when really bad weather hits! I can't see for myself what has happened, and fix things that needs fixing at once. There's a new storm coming in tonight, but not as bad as last night. Wow, this is some kind of Christmas weather! Keep your fingers crossed for my dear fishes back home!
