Second Globalwarming Awareness2007

Hurricane-Force Winds Hit North Europe

A new reason to take care about our global warming awareness. A hurricane-force winds and heavy downpours hammered northern Europe yesterday, and my Google Readers give me every hours new exemple of victims. At least 60 people ae already dead, and the hurricane force named Kyrild damaged buildings and disrupting travel for tens of thousands.

The storms were among the fiercest in years, for exemple, ripping off part of the roof at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London and a several-ton steel support on the facade of Berlin’s new central train station !

Helicopter rescuers winched 26 sailors to safety as their container ship began to sink in a stormy English Channel.

Traffic on the Eurostar, the train service connecting Britain with continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel, was suspended after an electrical cable holder fell onto the tracks near the northern French city of Lille, France’s national railway company said. Most ferries stayed in port.

London’s Heathrow Airport canceled 280 flights. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cut short her visit to Berlin to leave for London before winds worsened. Her plane circled for 15 minutes before landing at Heathrow in winds gusting to 77 mph !

Dozens of German flights were canceled, schools were shut, and the national railroad suspended much of its services.

Berlin’s new central train station, which opened 8 months ago, was evacuated after the steel facade support toppled, the fire brigade said. In Amsterdam, some bicyclists who ventured out despite warnings from the fire department were blown over or, in some cases, backward. In Utrecht, Netherlands, a construction crane toppled onto a university building, crumpling the roof and injuring six people.

Ten deaths were reported in Britain, and seven died in Germany, four in the Netherlands, three in the Czech Republic, two in Belgium and one in France.

I’m sorry to open this blog with such bad news, but most of European and American scientfics says than this strom coul be appear quiet often due to our climate change. I don’t want to scare you dear readers, but you have to considere a bit more about our global warming awareness.

I have to leave to go to Boston in few hours, will try to update my blog from there.