En orkan har igjen feid inn over Vesteuropa, med seriøs dekning i stort sett
alle lands viktigste medier unntatt de norske (som vanlig).
Som det går fram av artikkelen under (fra BBC), har Sveits opplevd
vindhastigheter på opp til 250 km/t, som er særdeles uvanlig over land
(rekorden i Norge sies å være 60 m/sek svarende til 216 km/t målt på
Fanaråken, og da sprakk vindmåleren, men dette var tilbake på syttitallet,
så det er vel mulig målerne klarer mer nå).
Overskriften "in eye of storm" viser igjen journalisters bevisstløse billed-
bruk, for i stormens "øye" (lavtrykkets senter) er det vindstille. "Øyet"
er selvfølgelig også mye mindre i utstrekning enn hele stormen og det er
utenkelig at hele Vesteuropa samtidig skulle befinne seg her.
Karsten Johansen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1010000/1010394.stm
Tuesday, 7 November, 2000, 01:41 GMT
Western Europe in eye of storm
Genoa: Italians fear a repeat of last month's floods Fierce wind and
torrential rain have lashed western Europe, severing transport links and
wreaking more havoc in waterlogged areas of northern Italy and southern
France.
The UK and Ireland have been the worst affected by the huge depression
battering western Europe, with widespread floods and two people killed when
a tree toppled onto a car in central England.
Three people died in the deluge in north-western Italy. Two of them were
elderly people who drowned in flooded basements, and one was a 34-year-old
man whose bulldozer was swept away by a mudslide in a quarry.
Mudslides claimed two lives in southern France - one in Nice and the other
in Gap.
Flights cancelled
Dozens of flights were cancelled in northern Spain, Italy and France.
Roads and railways running along the Italian Riviera were cut and the
authorities urged local residents not to use their cars.
San Remo was in danger of being cut off, with some road and rail links
flooded, while flights to Genoa were diverted east to Milan because of
strong winds.
In Switzerland, winds gusting at speeds in excess of 250 km/h (155mph) were
reported. Heavy snow halted traffic through the Swiss Alps, and the winds
damaged buildings and toppled trees and electricity pylons.
Sea rescue
An Italian navy vessel was towing a stranded ship carrying some 1,200
illegal immigrants towards the south-eastern port of Otranto.
The Italian authorities said the immigrants appeared to be Turkish Kurds.
Another sea rescue was underway off France's Atlantic coast, where the
French and Spanish navies were called to save the 18-strong crew of a UK
yacht in distress off Brest.
Off the south coast of Ireland, UK navy helicopters were called in to rescue
the crew of a Spanish fishing trawler which was drifting in rough seas.
Ireland's transport system was badly hit by the storms. Flooding and fallen
trees meant the only rail service running normally was the Dublin-Belfast
line.
In northern Portugal the port of Douro was forced to shut down. Roads were
also closed, vehicles damaged by falling trees and homes flooded.
In Spain, the Iberia airline cancelled flights to the northern regions of
Galicia and Cantabria because of high winds.
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