Tornadoes leave northern Sweden reeling
Published: 5 Jun 11 10:41 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/34182/20110605/
Tornadoes and rough winds wreaked havoc yesterday in the north of Sweden on Saturday, tearing down a large number of trees.
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"The number of fallen trees is probably the worst I've experienced in several years," Zakarias Juto, traffic controller at the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket), told news agency TT.
The agency has received hundreds of calls reporting roads that are blocked due to fallen trees.
At worst, almost 15,000 of power company Vattenfall's customers in the provinces of Västerbotten and Norrbotten were without electricity.
On Sunday, thousands were still waiting for the power to return, including 2,400 of Vattenfall's customers, 425 of EON's customers and 2,280 of Skellefteå kraft's customers, reports regional newspaper Norran.
"In some areas our power lines are heavily damaged," Roger Lindmark, information officer at Vattenfall, said to TT.
"Poles have been tumbled over and trees have fallen on lines."
The thunderstorm was created as cold air from the west pushed out warmer air.
Tornadoes in connection with thunderstorms are not entirely unheard of in Sweden, according to meteorological institute SMHI.
"Several cases are observed every year, especially in the summer," confirmed Linnéa Rehn, meteorologist at SMHI.
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look up "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program"
this is the reason why you see all the birds falling from the sky and the dead fish floating up. They are very sensitive to micro wavelengths and a certain species is just falling out of the sky by the thousands.
Don't you guys see what is going on?
It's created disasters to "make money" so they can manipulate currencies and crash countries' demise and fall
it's pure EVIL!
it is so unfathomable that it is hard to convince the general population of what is really going on
the media is doing all they can to cover it up with lies and false propaganda
We are lucky northern Sweden is not chock-full of yoggoth or other monstrosities.
knowledge is cause and power!
do your own YouTube and Google search and find out what scientific evidence exist and is out there
by the way - tear that temple down and stop "praying" - it is 100% useless and ineffective.
Something's afoot. Maybe Mother Nature has run out of patience with humans, because no matter how much we are told to curb greenhouse gasses, we miss the mark.
@Dimetrodon61 - You ignorant fool! Leaving the acolytes in charge of the Temple?! We could have all been killed! Congrats on the big Five OH though.
Chased storms a lot in Minnesota but was only able to see funnels and not tomatoes (my daughter called them that). Then last year, here in Sweden, saw my first one and it was white because it was sucking water. Headed for my island but roped out before landfall.