Eliot's Travels

Wind storm

Today was Jim's last day of work at Ensim. He spent the day talking with clients, his boss, and cleaning up his files and such. He was very happy to be finished!

It was rainy and quite windy, so I left Miles at home sleeping and headed to school via train at 11:45 to pick up Eliot from school. Eliot wanted to take the bus home, so we headed toward the new busline. I wasn't sure of the exact stop location, so we stopped to study the map. Bus 82 drove past us as I was folding up the map. I tried to run, but the bus stopped a block or 2 away. We had missed it, after all that husstling. Since the bus only comes every 30 minutes, we decided to walk to De Hoven Passage (a decent walk) to catch the tram.

The weather forecasters were calling for dangerously high winds all afternoon. As we walked along the path, the wind picked me up and carried me (carrying Eliot) 3 or 4 feet into a big tree. It was good that the tree was there, because I almost went into the road. We made it to teh stop and waited and waited for the tram going our direction, as we annoyingly watched 4 trams come and go the opposite direction. We watched a cardboard box fly above our heads and people trying to hold their ground as the wind gusts blew. Finally after 45 minutes, the tram came. I am sure it had problems with debris on the track. After 1.5 hours, we arrived at the apartment.

We decided to stay in that afternoon and get ready for our big trip on Friday. We were preparing for our last European vacation to southern Spain for a week. We had a nice dinner at home. In the evening, we packed for our trip. Gina called to tell us how to check for the flight information on the TV information pages. Apparently, the wind storm was quite intense, as predicted. The trains had been shut down across all of Holland around 5 pm because of debris on the tracks. It was too dangerous to send crews out to cleanup the tracks. This article is about the storm.
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=35648

posted by Whitney @ 9:47 AM