CHAT: The Big Storm [was: Re: conlang servey]

At 4:51 PM +0100 10/28/02, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:
>
>> 2.
>> we've been having a bit of wind here today ( the sun
>> newspaper described it in typical tabloid hyperbole as
>> a 'horror hurricane' . . . a few felled branches and
>> the odd dislodged slate )
>
>Here the storm was a bit stronger than that :)) . Windforce 11, the Netherlands
>didn't have that for 12 years! Hundreds of tree have fallen, the train traffic
>has been stopped all night for reparations, and still didn't work well this
>morning (I was supposed to go to a conference, but there was no train to the
>town I had to be :((( ), and quite a few buildings have suffered. The roof of
>the Province House of Zuid Holland fell, and the police had to put a car on it
>to prevent it to fly down the road! (and even then, it was just, the car was
>nearly taken away by the roof!) And unfortunately a few people died...
It was my luck to be an exchange student in the Netherlands (University of
Tilburg) 12 years ago. I remember that storm; I was on my bike coming home from
class trying to dodge the roof tiles. At one point I couldn't go forward
anymore, and I had to get off my bike and walk. After a few minutes I couldn't
walk anymore so I ducked into a doorway until the storm eased a bit.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                               Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

"It is important not to let one's aesthetics interfere with the appreciation of
fact." - Stephen Anderson

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