Rene, glad your home safe. Set back and tie some Chile Peppers. I plan on staying in as well today. We are snowed and iced in here. GRHE and variants are on my list today. Stay warm. Jimi
Gang, usually we have not so bad weather here in Central Europe, but the night from Tuesday to Friday was very different. We had a major storm here with wind speed up to 100 miles. Lots of fallen trees, rising rivers and so on. The authorities did shut down most of the public transportation, trains and busses had to stop, because it was too dangarous for them. Some cars and trucks got blown away from motorways and bridges. My empoyer sent out emails encouraging us to leave early for home. I was on customer side, 300 km from home, and decided to drive home, even it was a bit difficult. I got words from home that the family had a bit of trouble with damages on the roof and some trees. The ride home was awkward. I have usually 3 options (motorways) to ride home, plus some variations. All 3 were shut down on some places, the biggest thing was a 50 miles closure due to trees and trucks which were damaged or blown to pieces. One interuption was cleaned up before I had to decide between 2 remaining options, therefor I was lucky to get home. But when I reached that point where they had just cleaned up, some more trees decides to fall down. Luckily they didn't hit me or my car, but that was a very uncomfortable new experience. I decided to stay outside to car, thout it woud help to discover new threads and run away. Finally reached home after 5 hours - usually I need 2 and a half. BTW: We had warnings to enter the Netherlands, because of the conditions there. Mart, Henk, Hans, and the others in the Lowlands - are you fine? The most worse consequence is, that the waterlevel of the Rhine is rising fast. No chance for fishing, my plan was to head out tomorrow for walleye. Therefore I have to ty flies. Rene
