Worst storm since Gudrun coming my way

[Chemical Ollie]

Some Finns I know claim SAAB is a Finnish car, as the assemble of a few cabriolets used to be outsourced to the Valmet tractor plant 1-2 decades ago.

Anyway, time for bed. When I wake up tomorrow, Gudrun II will be outside my windows, threatening to put my Cheney on her collection string... I just hope my dock won't be damaged this time. I could take some broken tree branches, but my dock was both expensive and required lots of hard manual labour to construct.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie


It was 5 years old, Juntti! You think I'm stupid enough to buy a brand new car? A brand new SAAB of similar standards would be 2-3 times that price. A 5 year old with 100 kkm under its belt is perfect.

Five year old, a 100 kkm - well, just multiply with 3-4 to get such one here - if that is even possible

Got a 8 year old 200 kkm Mondeo this summer for 5 K euro

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by BlackCat


Five year old, a 100 kkm - well, just multiply with 3-4 to get such one here - if that is even possible ---

Somehow I don't believe you. Who would pay 13*3-4 = 50-60 k€ for a used car, even if it's a good one? That's what you pay for a new car with highest possible standards, even higher class than the car I have. A high-end Mercedes or something.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by BlackCat
a 100 kkm

OMG, they've gone metric on us. Okay, okay, okay, I can handle this. 100 kkm means...um...100 kilo kilometers. That is 100 x 100 kilometers...which is 10,000 kilometers...which is..er...7,142 miles. That doesn't seem right.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


OMG, they've gone metric on us. Okay, okay, okay, I can handle this. 100 kkm means...um...100 kilo kilometers. That is 100 x 100 kilometers...which is 10,000 kilometers...which is..er...7,142 miles. That doesn't seem right.

Crazy yanks - 1k is 1.000

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie


Somehow I don't believe you. Who would pay 13*3-4 = 50-60 k€ for a used car, even if it's a good one? That's what you pay for a new car with highest possible standards, even higher class than the car I have. A high-end Mercedes or something.

You don't belive me ? Take a tour on http://www.bilbasen.dk/ - just remember to take your traquilizers before you enter.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by BlackCat


Crazy yanks - 1k is 1.000

Dammit, I knew that!

[Chemical Ollie]

Compared to Gudrun, this storm is just a baby so far. But it's still a couple of hours until the worst part will reach my area.

[Adalbertus]

There is no such thing as kkm. It's Mm.

[Chemical Ollie]

4 people reported dead, hit by falling trees.

But I was outside for a while in the afternoon and I saw no damage whatsoever in my town. Windy alright, but not even close to Gudrun.

[Zoid]

The tarpaulin covering my boat has probably been blown to bits by the storm. I'm going down to check now. At least I have enough slack in the moorings not to damage the bollards (I think ) During Gudrun the water level was almost 4 meters above normal...

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Many still without power after storm

Published: 15th January 2007 10:09 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/6094/

On Monday morning 226,000 Swedish households were still without electricity after Sunday's storm.

Power company Eon sent 1,500 of its workers into forests hit by the strom to begin work repairing cables.

Meteorological agency SMHI is forecasting more strong winds in mountainous areas and at sea. But the worst of the storm, labelled Per by Norwegian meteorologists, is now deemed to be over.

Only 50,000 of the households that suffered power cuts in the storm had got their electricity supply back by Monday morning.

"This is really severe. We are very, very distressed," said Eon's spokesman Mattias Hennius.

Of the power companies affected by the storms, Eon has been hit hardest.

At 6 a.m. on Monday the company sent 1,500 workers and around a hundred vehicles into the forests affected by the storm to clear trees and repair damaged cables. Eight helicopters have been sent out to locate the affected areas.

The southern half of the country, primarily Skåne, Västra Götaland and Svealand, bore the brunt of the storm. It is not yet certain when customers in these regions will get their power back.

"But it will take quite a few days before everybody has electricity again," said Hennius.

By Monday morning the storm had finally dissipated in most of the country.

On Sunday rail traffic came to a practical standstill but now trains are running again between Stockholm and Gothenburg.

"But passengers can expect delays," said Susanne Alemyr, spokeswoman for Banverket, the company that control's Sweden's rail network.

Trains have also begun running again on the Gothenburg to Malmö route, though with significant delays.

All trains in the Småland and Blekinge regions have been cancelled until further notice.

Although many rail routes out of Gothenburg have not yet resumed service, public transport in the city is back on track, as are air and ferry services.

A number of schools and pre-schools in Kronoberg County will remain closed on Monday as a result of destruction caused by the storm, Sveriges Radio reports.

Three people died as a result of hurricane winds that battered southern Sweden on Sunday.

One man in his 60s died when the car he was travelling in was hit by a falling tree near Forserum, said police in Jönköping county. A woman who was travelling with him was slightly injured in the accident, which happened at around 1pm.

In Motala a nine year old boy died after a tree fell on him at around midday. The boy was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

During the afternoon a man aged 25 was badly injured when the light van he was driving on a road near Ullared in Halland was hit by a falling tree. The man, who was alone in the truck, died later in hospital in Varberg.

The storm hit Sweden from the west on Sunday morning. On Hanö, an island off the coast of Blekinge, the wind speed reached a peak of 40 metres per second, or 144 kilometres per hour, at around 2pm.

"That's very unusual in Sweden. I don't think we've had such high figures since 'Gudrun' in January 2005," said meteorologist Jonas Höglund at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).

On the west coast a top wind speed of 39m/s was measured on Måseskär, outside Orust. However, the storm had started to weaken there by 2pm.

In eastern Sweden the storm reach its peak on Sunday evening.

TT/The Local

[Kropotkin]

Swedes are really a bunch of pansies. It was a little windy outside, so what?

[Pekka]

CO, claiming Saab to be Finnish is pretty stupid, even for Finns. I mean, it's pretty easy to know it isn't, because we don't have any cars of our own! So it's not like 'is that a Finnish car?'. No! There are no Finnish cars.. they were probably very stupid, that is definitely not the normal claim or common myth in here.