As some of you may know from the news, we've had quite a bit of wind in this area of Europe over the last few days. The worst here was on Thursday night, where we all moved downstairs where we felt safer, and where there wasn't quite as much noise as in our attic bedrooms. Power went out about 10:30 p.m., and didn't come back on until the next morning about 9 a.m. School was canceled on Friday.
Winds in the mountains reached 137 mph, although they weren't that strong where we live.
Except for spoiled food from the refrigerator and a few shingles off the kids' playhouse, we didn't have any damage. Quite a few trees are down in the woods around Hornà JelenÃ, some snapped in half at the trunks, some blown over with their roots exposed (its been very wet and unseasonably warm, so the ground is very soft).
The photo above is not from these winds, but from similar winds back in 2005. We took this picture near Kamenice, in South Bohemia. The damage from this last week's winds was not nearly so dramatic!
2 comments:
Hey Steven, we got some wind, too, just north of you all. I was riding my bike through the woods on Saturday with Fausta (in the kiddie seat) and I saw plenty of workers cleaning up the forest and hauling out felled trees. Needless to say they put some nasty ruts along the trails. Boo :(
In the piney woods or East Texas we have no understanding of the Winter you show us. Godspeed to you and your family!
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