Hello Spain! Are you still there?
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Bombast the Blue
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Hello Spain! Are you still there?
Here in Portugal most of us are still here but this damned wind has sure shaken us almost to the point we get airborne and fly over you on our way to France...
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LuisGuzman
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Re: Hello Spain! Are you still there?
Yikes ... Then those UFOS detected over Spain are actually our friends from Portugal, right ?
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Bombast the Blue
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Re: Hello Spain! Are you still there?
People probably didn't fly as much as reaching Spain.
But maybe some pieces of roof did.
In some places roofs became scattered over hundreds of meters.
Districts of Leiria and Coimbra look like those reports we get from the States, of post hurricane days.
Countless thousands of trees ripped off the ground or in other places snapped in half by the wind.
Particularly a great number of pines were simply snapped in half by the height of their lower branches.
Many roads and fields are covered with hundreds of pine top halves while the lower half of the trunks remain in vertical position. Eerie...
Private houses, businesses or enterprises, vehicles; many were completely destroyed, many more severely damaged.
By the way, a big thank you for the electric generators sent by the Spanish Red Cross.
But the thing didn't end with the wind wednesday.
In the days since we've had flooding in various locations, even way outside the regions that caught the worst of the wind.
Landslides due to soil being saturated with water have cut several additional roads that had escaped fallen trees.
And another one is arriving this night; hopefully weather predictions will be correct and this one will be weaker...
Few figures:
Highest wind speed registered: 208km\h in location of Soure.
Second one: 177km\h in location of Marinha Grande.
Number of electricity clients cut off from supply on storm impact: 1 million.
Number of high and medium tension posts broken: 450.
Number of electricity clients still cut off from supply after 4 days: 159 thousand.
Estimated time to solve all the electricity situation: 2 weeks.
In many cases electricity failure was accompanied with water and communications failure.
5 deaths on impact, 1 a few hours later, 2 three days later and 1 occurred today, 4 days later, maybe will be counted.
Over 500 injured, most of them not on impact; most got injured while dealing with the wreckage the days after.
Leiria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lea3POEXtvY
General:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Ruv-Kv-vE
This short one from a Portuguese Radio Station:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThZCTw3RQQY
Flooding more to the south, in my own District, not same city though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cIsHI3MYgo
Last one, including a chunk of roof that landed on the opposite building in Figueira da Foz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOpVNj2k4A
But maybe some pieces of roof did.
In some places roofs became scattered over hundreds of meters.
Districts of Leiria and Coimbra look like those reports we get from the States, of post hurricane days.
Countless thousands of trees ripped off the ground or in other places snapped in half by the wind.
Particularly a great number of pines were simply snapped in half by the height of their lower branches.
Many roads and fields are covered with hundreds of pine top halves while the lower half of the trunks remain in vertical position. Eerie...
Private houses, businesses or enterprises, vehicles; many were completely destroyed, many more severely damaged.
By the way, a big thank you for the electric generators sent by the Spanish Red Cross.
But the thing didn't end with the wind wednesday.
In the days since we've had flooding in various locations, even way outside the regions that caught the worst of the wind.
Landslides due to soil being saturated with water have cut several additional roads that had escaped fallen trees.
And another one is arriving this night; hopefully weather predictions will be correct and this one will be weaker...
Few figures:
Highest wind speed registered: 208km\h in location of Soure.
Second one: 177km\h in location of Marinha Grande.
Number of electricity clients cut off from supply on storm impact: 1 million.
Number of high and medium tension posts broken: 450.
Number of electricity clients still cut off from supply after 4 days: 159 thousand.
Estimated time to solve all the electricity situation: 2 weeks.
In many cases electricity failure was accompanied with water and communications failure.
5 deaths on impact, 1 a few hours later, 2 three days later and 1 occurred today, 4 days later, maybe will be counted.
Over 500 injured, most of them not on impact; most got injured while dealing with the wreckage the days after.
Leiria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lea3POEXtvY
General:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Ruv-Kv-vE
This short one from a Portuguese Radio Station:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThZCTw3RQQY
Flooding more to the south, in my own District, not same city though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cIsHI3MYgo
Last one, including a chunk of roof that landed on the opposite building in Figueira da Foz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOpVNj2k4A