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Fierce Storm Batters Europe
mvansand76:
Thanks for starting this thread, you are so sweet!
Well, here goes, another EuroBrokie report... :(
I decided to leave work early yesterday. I left at 3.00 and got home at around 6! It normally takes 45 minutes. When I arrived at Amsterdam Sloterdijk station there were already thousands of people waiting for the trains and there were no trains at all running because part of the roof of Amsterdam central station had collapsed an hour before. The train ride from Sloterdijk to where I live is only 5 minutes, but there is a waterway between Amsterdam and Zaandam and there are no bridges, only two tunnels, one for the trains and one for cars. So we were stuck. I ended up sitting on the platform freezing, then in a flash I decided to exit the station at the front and see if there were any buses to Zaandam. The moment I walked out of the station a bus arrived and about two hundred people stormed it. It really was a miracle, I ended up being one of the lucky few who were able to board the bus and it took us almost an hour to get to Zaandam, then I had to walk for half an hour and when I got home I told my boyfriend that I was so happy to be home, I couldn't stop laughing. Then I turned on the television and saw that thousands of people were stranded on the stations in Holland. It was terrible.
Kelda:
My goodness... you were lucky to get home in 3 hrs then!
Didn't hear about Amsterdam central station stations roof coming in... geesh!
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: kelda_shelton on January 19, 2007, 08:35:54 am ---My goodness... you were lucky to get home in 3 hrs then!
Didn't hear about Amsterdam central station stations roof coming in... geesh!
--- End quote ---
Yeah and I am usually very unlucky in these kinds of situations, making the wrong decisions and all.. The people that were stranded at the stations were taken to sports facilities where they could sleep on provisional beds...
isabelle:
Hi everyone!
I've been offline lately for health reasons, but nothing to do with the storm. I am in Brittany, which is not totally north, and we always seem to be safe from really bad weather (on the other hand, we keep getting oil on our shores!!). Some say that the weather is going to get worse and worse worldwide, but the ancient Celtic world (of which Brittany is a part, like Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Galicia in northern Spain!)is safe and will be the only one to survive... and then King Arthur will come back and it will be the start of the reign of Keltia :P :-\ :laugh: :laugh:
So anyway, thanks for the good thoughts, and I'll be around more I hope :)
Front-Ranger:
Thanks to the Eurobrokies for staying in touch. Anyone heard from James??
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