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    Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
    Several deaths were reported, Denmark I believe, at least according to our newsies.
    Is this the difference between European and US media? What I got from the news was a bunch of delayed flights, trains and some injuries, while the US media seems to dig for the deaths...

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    Is this the difference between European and US media? What I got from the news was a bunch of delayed flights, trains and some injuries, while the US media seems to dig for the deaths...

    Anyway, I missed this one.
    You do see the odd pop-up of how people lost some fences or similar.
    The article on the BBC was this.

    It is what we Brits call "A little breezy".

    Though, in Seamus' defense, it affected the Dutchies and those along the coast far worse.
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    I was a bit disappointed. I live in a city but I still expected more than two strong breezes.

    Yes, some areas were affected more, some trains stopped and so on, but in the end it was a relatively normal strong storm, the kind we get once in a while and it's not the end of the world. As for the victims, tragic, but maybe if you account for people who didn't die in normal everyday traffic accidents because some people stayed at home due to the storm warnings, it may even out again.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiaexz View Post
    You do see the odd pop-up of how people lost some fences or similar.
    The article on the BBC was this.

    It is what we Brits call "A little breezy".

    Though, in Seamus' defense, it affected the Dutchies and those along the coast far worse.
    A few fallen trees, nothing serious. Like Hussie I was a little dissapointed, storms are awesome.

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    Fortunately this time the mediastorm was bigger than the windstorm.

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    Well, Russia got hit hard.

    16 deaths (if I heard it correctly, could have been 6) and 11,000 people were left without electricity.

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    So The Happening is happening?

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    In Sweden, a very unlucky moose got killed by, like, the only tree to fall in the vicinity...

    As long as that tops the news...

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    Removed :)

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    Four deaths in the UK - that's pretty bad by our standards - largely the fault of Highways not felling old trees, though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    Is this the difference between European and US media?

    No the english telly was shouting across all channels about how something we call an Irish summer was on its way for ages.


    On a more serious note I believe there was a lot of power disruption and trees knocked in the south of england.
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    I found the wind pretty annoying. I have this one window without something that can keep it shut so I usually keep it shut with a 'leitz folder'(Not sure what this is called in other countries; Basically something to collect papers in). This time it didn't keep the window shut so I had to barricade the window with 2 stacks of books.

    The greater annoyance was the thunder around 1-2 am that was really loud.
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    The power went out for 2 minutes! :D Exciting stuff for Europe XD

    Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
    No the english telly was shouting across all channels about how something we call an Irish summer was on its way for ages.


    On a more serious note I believe there was a lot of power disruption and trees knocked in the south of england.
    We had a few knocked over trees, a road blocked here and there but I don't think it was very severe. The only funny thing was the power going out, which caused all the house alarms to go off at the same time around this area.
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