January, The Start Of Hurricane Season In Sweden (?)
16 January 2007 in Root | Comments enabled
Sweden seems to have gotten their own hurricane season that seems to last for the month of January every second year.
In 2005 southern Sweden was hit with a amazingly powerful low pressure which generated hurricane force winds. Called “Gudrun” it oblitirated woods and power-lines leaving many without power, accessible roads and telephones.
Fast forward to today (or last weekend to be exact) and yet another storm — called “Per” — with hurricane force winds hits the same southern Sweden. This wasn’t as powerful storm as Gudrun, and most people are having a sense of déjà vu (not like in the movie with the same name, though). Power, phones, roads are down, but this time it seems to be easier to get things up and a-running than when the last hurricane came for a visit.
There’s one thing that’s interesting here and that is the way the Swedes are coordinating the rebuilding as soon as the storm has moved on where as the US government hasn’t done much for the New Orleans post-Katrina, even today. Sure, it isn’t the same case here (country size, GNP differences and such) but it is the thought-to-action-time that counts the points in my book.
I’m only hoping the swedish power companies would try to coordinate some power line buryings to prevent the trees from cutting off power when it blows a little. That would minimize the damage a little the next time they’re having a hurricane season.
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