Usually, there is not a lot of action around here where I live, but today we've had a massive storm. It hit late last night, and it just progressed during the night, and this morning when I woke up, I felt like I was inside a washing machine and someone was shaking me really, really hard. Especially where I am in my house because it's so close to the seaside, and when the wind is right, or in this case wrong, it really hits the house. And yeah, I was okay with it until about 1pm, then I went outside to get the mail, and I took some pictures, some videos, and the wind caught me and nearly threw me in the sea, and I'm not even joking, because I just misjudged the wind completely.
It's, I have respect for the water, I have respect for the wind, I have respect for weather in general, especially because I grew up where I grew up, and because I've always been close to the seaside. But it was like a wind throw, it just came from nowhere, and it was like 10 times stronger than the average wind. I'm so glad it didn't throw me in the sea, because yeah, that would have been interesting. I wouldn't have been able to get up by myself, that's for sure.
But I get out of the place I was standing, and I just leaned against the wall, and the boat shed, and I just waited. And after a while, I grabbed myself to one of the trees standing there, and I leaned on the tree, and after that I was high enough up that I could just walk up. And when I came inside, I just thought, okay, this is the peak of the wind, it will not get stronger than this. Then the wind turned, and when we have winds coming from west in this location, it gets ugly.
It's not often we have it the western side when it's this type of weather. And when we have this type of weather with west winds, it can damage so many things. I just started to read the news, like, okay, we have this happening in town, and boats have having problems, glass broken, windows break, roof came out, and I'm like, okay, this is fairly bad, it's not horrible, but yeah, it's not fantastic either. And suddenly we lost all power.
That doesn't happen often around here. The last time I can recall the power being out for more than one minute, it's maybe five years ago, six years ago, it's not ordinary. And I just checked my Facebook because I have phone wifi, not just wifi in the house, and I just checked the internet, and I'm like, okay, the power is out everywhere. The whole town is blacked out.
And not only us, but so many places from here to north, it's all the coastline was blacked out, and the wind just grew stronger and stronger and stronger, and I'm like, okay, this will be lovely. I will not do anything today because I don't have a good boarding stove, the only means of power I have is from electricity, I don't have any possibility to boil anything or charge anything, or yeah, I don't prepare for these kind of conditions. It's probably something I should do, but no, I don't have a shelter, I don't have any of those things. The wind in my area, usually it will not break anything, or if it breaks something, it's minor.
But when the power went out, I felt it was really, really uncomfortable, because it becomes more real that this is a serious storm. This is not just a small thing, and maybe half an hour, 40 minutes later it was back on, so it's not a big drama, but definitely it's noticeable when you're so used to having electricity always, and yeah, it's kind of a wake up call, because you don't think about how dependent you are on those kind of things, if an emergency were to happen. My phone was charged, the house was not that cold, I have blankets, I have food, I could have survived, no problem. But in those kind of situations, if something extraordinary happened, you are, it's more tricky to handle.
It's not that easy to contact someone, it's not that easy to move anywhere, and in this kind of weather that has been today, I really don't want to take my car and drive. I have a very small car, and with this wind, I will feel it so well, and it will also maybe be a little bit risky for me if I cross in different paths where the wind really blows. We will see what will happen during the rest of the day, it's now 5.30pm here, and that means it should be calming down, but I don't think it's over yet, the lights are still blinking, the wind is still peaking, until this moment I don't dare to open any windows or doors if I don't have to, because I'm afraid it will just blow open and I'm not able to close it again. Yeah, but I managed to make some soup for dinner, and now I made myself a cup of tea, and that means that if the power goes out again, at least I'm warm, at least I've had some nice comfort.
So I think I'll be alright, just wanted to give you a live weather update, like, because truly this is as live as it will get from my small town in Norway. I'm interested more about the weather, but for some reason I just pressed the off button, so here's another segment of it, I really like stormy weather, and when I went down to get my mail, I also get the neighbour woman's mail, she's elderly and I brought it to her window, her kitchen window, where she always stands and takes it, and we're just talking about the weather and she's like, oh I like to stormy and I say, yeah I love it too, it's so nice to see the air is so fresh and everything becomes misty and yeah, it's kind of exciting, and also the sea is so foamy and you see the peaks of the waves and the colour of the sea completely changes. It gets almost turquoise, greyish, it's very weird, and it's so clear that it's a very windy day, and we were just talking like, okay, how do you feel about the weather she said, and I'm like, oh it's lovely, except if the power goes out, I really don't like it when the power goes out, because it makes me feel uncomfortable, and she's just like, no you know what, we have had much more wind than this before and the power has not gone out, so I think I'll be alright, and I say, yeah I hope so, and I say we better close this window because I don't want the window to blow, and she's like, yeah it's okay, and we say goodbye, and it was literally two hours later, or maybe even just one hour later, this happened, so yeah, talk about the devil and it happens, definitely, but I'm one of those people who usually like to curl up with a nice book and some hot chocolate or my cup of tea, and just watch the wind pound the windows and watch the rain, and I really love it, especially this time of year when it gets, yeah it changes character when you have bad weather, when it's late autumn and winter, but I'm very happy when it starts in the daytime, because when you have this starting in the nighttime, when everything is dark outside, it feels more disturbing, it feels more scary in a way, especially if you lose power in the nighttime, so all of this is, it's in a daytime, that means you have more control of it, it's easier if you need help, and you're able to see outside to see what's going on, so it's not the worst thing that could have been, and today I've spent most of my day actually in the kitchen, where I have a panoramic view of the seaside, from all the windows, I have a whole wall of windows, and the salt is like sticking to the windows, I can barely see outside, but I've just been following the wind and watching how the sea has shifted and the wind direction has shifted, yeah, maybe I should be a weather girl actually, I would love that job, because I love the weather, and this is something I have from both my father and from my mother, I grew up with two humans that were more into the weather than the ordinary person on the street, so if there was any weather news, my parents would know about it, and if it was anything to worry about, my parents would know about it, and the biggest memory I have of bad weather, it was in early 90s, maybe 91, yeah I think actually it was 1991, we had a huge storm hit this area of Norway, in the middle part of Norway, and it was so damaging, it broke so many houses, it broke so much stuff, and it damaged people, it was serious, and the reason why I remember this is because we were sleeping, and we woke up to this noise, it was something blowing from a different world, and my bedroom was next to my parents' bedroom, and I woke up with my father screaming, like what that is going on, he was not the screaming type, so when he like jumps from his bed screaming like this, it means it's a big one, my mother she's more laid back, when accidents happen, it's just she's more like okay, it will be okay, but even she got out of bed, and I got out of bed, and my whole city got out of bed because the emergency signal in town had blew out, the one they would use if we have a bombing, it was installed here during the war, and it's there, it will go off like a fire alarm basically if we are under attack, and that alarm blew off, and that alarm is not that far from our house, or my parents' house, the noise was yeah, it was without a doubt the loudest noise I've ever heard, and when you combine that with heavy wind, it was after hurricane, and it was winter, so it was white outside, it was so cold, and of course it was power, it's really really crazy weather day, and up until this day, this is something in people's memory, because the damages, and this sounds, and everything, it will stick to you, and I think the people who experienced it like their houses were damaged, or some people that knew were injured, they will always worry about this type of weather, because when something like that happens, you remember it, because of the noises, the smells, the feeling you get in your stomach, or when something is off, like this is not a normal situation, I need to say it myself, I need to say it to my people, I need to say the things I own, yeah it's a different story, so what we have here today, it's like just a baby version of it, it cannot even be compared, but that's my biggest weather memory ever, it's that night in 1991.