Conference turris::scandia

498.0. "Storm with highest wind speeds ever recorded in Norway" by TLE::SAVAGE () Fri Jan 03 1992 09:30

    From: [email protected] (Erik Boman)
    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    Date: 2 Jan 92 11:59:48 GMT
    Sender: [email protected] (Bergen University Newsaccount)
    Organization: Institute of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway
 
    A [storm with hurricane-force winds] swept over Northwestern Norway
    yesterday (New Year Day) with wind [gusts] up to 100 knots !
 
    There have been severe damages, especially in the M�re og Romsdal
    district. Roofs were blown off the houses, cars turned around, trees
    fell down, small boats were crushed against the shore, even a large
    fishing ship was carried far up on land by the waves and the wind.
 
    In Aalesund people were adviced by radio messages not to leave their
    house. Most large windows were broken in the town centre. In Molde
    parts of the hospital had to be evacuated because the building nearly
    fell apart.
 
    But fortunately, nobody was killed ! Almost unbelievable when you see
    the destroyed houses. Even seamen on boats that sunk were rescued by
    helicopter.
 
    Insurance companies estimate that the damages will cost about $100
    million dollars. This storm is one of the worst in this century,
    probably worse than the great storm in fall 1987.
 
   -- 
   Erik Boman 
   University of Bergen
   email: [email protected]                          

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   From: [email protected] (Cindy Kandolf)
   Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
   Subject: Re: Hurricane strikes Norway !
   Date: 2 Jan 92 12:44:36 GMT
   Sender: [email protected] (NetNews Administrator)
   Organization: Flodnak, Inc., Trondheim, Norway
 
 
    ...the winds were the highest ever recorded in Norway. That's saying
    something; parts of coastal Norway are damned windy.
 
    Trondheim got lucky.  There was damage here, but nothing serious, and
    we even had electrical power the whole time.  Large sections of Moere
    og Romsdal lost theirs, not too far to the south....
 
   -Cindy Kandolf
    [email protected]
    Trondheim, Norway