Friday 22 June 2007

Stormy Weather: Tempest



4.54pm


5.02pm


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8.07pm


8.10pm


9.13pm

The storm reached gusts of around 130 km/h.
A crane operator whose crane crashed into the fire brigade building fell to his death, a man and a woman where killed by falling trees, near the Danube and the airport, respectively.
Traffic in the city came to a standstill,
with streets blocked by trees and at the Vienna airport airtraffic was suspended.
The Barbara Streisand concert at Schönbrunn Palace
was postponed because strong winds
had damaged the outdoor stage.

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous23 June, 2007

    I'm always imagining that you have such sunny, nice weather in the summer....

    It is warm here, though we have a slight rain today. Terje and I packed our lunches in a backpack and hiked the hills behind our house.

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  2. My God, that is scary! I am glad you are ok.

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  3. BRITT-ARNHILD:
    We do have one sunny day after the next, this was only a temporal interruption of 30 degree sunny summer days, albeit one with tragic consequences.

    PG:
    I had not been aware of the severeness of the storm til I talked to my neighbor down in the garden afterwards, she had listened to the news. I had turned off the computer when the thunder started rolling and proceeded to clean up my desk.

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  4. Woah! That is frightening. I too am glad that you survived o.k.

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  5. ANN:
    I was at home and safe and was never in any danger.
    I am very sad for the persons who had to die during this freak storm, and wasn't able to post yesterday, escpecially after I happened to walk by the crane accident. I cross that beautiful square frequently, and was walking to the post office, when the devastation was all of a sudden in front of me. I loved looking up at those sculptures, and it's hard to believe that a human being lost his life in the midst of such beauty.

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  6. Wow.... Sad to hear that the storm was deadly for some (generally I *love* extreme weather).

    That sunset is gorgeous!

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