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Huge storm in northern Europe....
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Matokin Lemant
#1 - 2013-10-29 01:21:07 UTC
Don't know if this was posted or not but I Just saw the news about that massive storm that hit northern Europe Shocked and I know there are allot of eve players the effected area(s) so I wanted to just give a shout out to everyone who is/was affected by the storm and hope that you and your families are ok.

Given the size of the eve community I am sure we have flown with or know someone from the effected areas.

News link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24705734
Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#2 - 2013-10-29 01:42:59 UTC
I am in Scania (the southern part of Sweden) and last I heard, 73,000 households that had affected by blackouts. The coastal province of Halland is the one that supposedly got hit the hardest.

No casualties known so far.

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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-10-29 01:53:29 UTC
3 dead from it here in the UK ...
2 by falling trees, 1 swept out to sea ..




dunno if the gas explosion deaths are storm related ... so it may be 5
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2013-10-29 01:53:50 UTC
Blew across the UK. Nothing like the storm of 87 but not a nice one.

Mind you up in the north east we got nothing, not even a rustled leaf.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-10-29 01:57:14 UTC
76 was fun too.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#6 - 2013-10-29 03:03:43 UTC
Storm carnage in Dalston

Kensington was not spared either

Never Forget !

Lol

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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-10-29 11:58:41 UTC
Krixtal

this is where a 17yr old girl was sleeping


was ... being the key world
Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#8 - 2013-10-29 12:02:33 UTC
It cause alot of trouble in most of Denmark. Just not here in the north where the winds weren't that strong. I was hardly affected by it other than having a nice tailwind on the way home.

Most of the larger bridges (we have alot of them) were closed for the day. 2 Person died (RIP) and alot of damage to structures.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#9 - 2013-10-29 12:08:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Kitty Bear wrote:
Krixtal

this is where a 17yr old girl was sleeping


was ... being the key world


I was posting humorous pictures that were posted by Brits on twitter.

It is called humor you know.

Yes, it's sad that some people died. Yes. It indeed is. We know this. I'm a 48 yo male. I know this.

I guess Quentin Tarantino should have never made "Inglourious Basterds" since tens of millions of people were killed during that little world-wide escapade. We should all just only feel bad about it all for all eternity I guess, as you imply by default.

Let's get our priorities straight here.

Also, my posts were hardly "laughing at dead people". Puh-leaze Roll

Try living in America where it is not unusual to have 1,388 people dead from these things, as in Katrina. Happens all the time.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#10 - 2013-10-29 12:21:01 UTC
Actually in central europe weather is now windy and the air is really warm. 17, 18 degrees of celsius. 13 at night. I remember that year ago we had snow!

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Gothikia
Fraternity.
#11 - 2013-10-29 14:33:02 UTC
You lot down south suck. When we got hit by it in Scotland a couple of years ago, we called it Hurricane Bawbag. You lot didn't even give it a cool name! (Google it)

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Faenir Antollare
For Ever And Ever
#12 - 2013-10-29 15:43:58 UTC
I fished through it on the river Ribble, was a wild night of that there can be no doubt but not in the same league as the `87 storm mentioned above, as well as the usual trees and garden furniture detritus you tend to see coming down the flow at such times I was amazed to watch one of those large metal sealed containers, of the type used in shipping and for storage, sail past me at a fair rate of knots.

For anybody of an interest..4 Barbel to 11.03 lb and a really quite large (unweighed) Eel.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#13 - 2013-10-29 17:06:28 UTC
Faenir Antollare wrote:
I fished through it on the river Ribble, was a wild night of that there can be no doubt but not in the same league as the `87 storm mentioned above,


A few years ago I actually sat down to read Christopher Tolkien's 13-volume series on "The History of Middle Earth" analysis of all his father's writings and drafts.

Late in the series, it gets to a fascinating part when opening a box of papers, Christopher discovered a manuscript 150-pages long that was the start of a science fiction novel that all these years he absolutely had no idea his father was working on.

The story is about a group of intellectuals in a private discussion club (The Inklings allusion, anyone?) in the 21st century talking about a bunch of stuff, the primary of which was a great storm that had devastated England in the past.

The date given in that manuscript for this storm is the exact date that storm actually did happen in England in real life !

Christopher was of course astonished, as was I reading it. It's just absolutely uncanny.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#14 - 2013-10-29 18:14:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Tollen Gallen
Kitty Bear wrote:
5 dead from it here in the UK ...
2 by falling trees, 2 from gas main explosion due to fallen tree on house,1 swept out to sea ..



fixed that for you. Smile

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