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"Bjørn Sørheim" wrote in
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Actually to be precise 305.28 kph.
I'm a bit surprised this hurricane raise no interest on this ng?
It has been the top story in Norway since it happened on the 25th.
In Sweden 170 000 customers lost power, Norway 100 000, and
in Finland 130 000 was without power as late as Wedensday.
So far at least 460 million NOK in insurance claims have
been filed in Norway alone. 3000 are still without phone
in Norway, most have got the power back, but some linger still.

Bjorn

I have followed it quite closely for my work. In insurance terms, I'm
assuming it still pales into insignificance compared to the New Years
Day
Storm of 1992? I think if this would happen again today - in today's
money that would be around 10bn NOK of insurance claims - at least.

I'm guessing that Oslo was (relatively) spared, too?

Richard

Was this in the news in the UK? I checked BBC but didn't see any.
I also took down my satellite dish in advance, so didn't watch any
international
TV stations (or domestic TV as the signals disappeared from here).
I saw a few days ago here that the damage cost of the New Years Day
Hurricane
of 1992 was estimated in todays value at 2.6 billion NOK.
Oslo (I don't live there) had some fallen trees, and some damage at a
boat haven.
But actually a lot of tree damage (and downed power lines) occured in the
area between Elverum and Kongsvinger northeast of Oslo which is not far
away.
Most of the damage was at northern Vestlandet(western fjords) of course,
also quite a bit in the mountains. I wouldn't be surprised if the damage
claims
doubles (or more) from where they stand currently.

Interesting stories like this get very little coverage. Editors are more
concerned with wars and giving airtime to those predicting doom in the
economy. Having said that if the freak weather had happened in the US
they'd have been all over it.

I definitely would second that last sentence. Even though Norway is much
closer,
and this hurricane could have hit you too, actually it did - northernmost
Scotland.

Bjørn