There Goes the Sun


Artykuł pochodzi z pisma "New Warsaw Express"

There Goes the Sun
Winter arrived with a tragic bang in Poland this week, with a windstorm on Thursday leaving trucks overturned, electricity lines down and at least seven people dead. At time of going to print, emergency forces were still battling with the effects - and the storm, which carried winds of up to 130 km per hour across the country, was still blowing.
Beginning on Wednesday night, meteorologists on the Baltic coast noted winds of 8-9 on the Beaufort scale and predicted it would grow to a rating of 11. Ships across the coast were confined to harbour, but the real chaos was further inland.
In Warsaw, one of hundreds of torn down tree-boughs fell on a six-month-old baby's pram as his mother walked home against the storm. The mother was unhurt, but the baby died later in hospital. Earlier a similar accident crushed two men to death in a car in the Pomorze coastal region. One of the region's senior firefighters, age 39, was also killed by a falling bough. Outside another northern town, Elblag, a farmer died when his tractor was blown over by the wind.
The other confirmed victims were a 68-year-old man who was blown off his bike and a woman whose car was crushed by a whole overturning tree, both in the Mazurian lakes district.
Electricity companies reported blackouts for almost 70,000 homes and businesses in the eastern region of Podlasie, and the areas around unemployment blackspots Slupsk and Bialystok.
Fallen trees littered roads across Warmia, Mazuria, Wielkopolska and along the coast. Police reported dozens of people injured in road accidents caused by the wind, with lorries reported overturned outside Poznan and Lodz. In Lublin the high winds were accompanied by battering torrential rain and hail, while rail connections from Warsaw to Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk were all halted by damage to traction lines. Police urged people not to travel if they didn't have to as meteorologists warned the storm would last into Friday.
"A very strong front is passing over Poland, bringing with it a large mass of cold air," a spokeswoman for the Meteorology Institute told reporters, adding that the whole country would experience a cold snap on Friday, with temperatures in Warsaw falling to just 2 degrees above freezing. They also see some chance of the first snow in the capital, after the winter's first falls paralysed the Tatra mountain region last weekend.
Steven Muller


bang – loud noise, something sudden and impressive
confined – shut in, not allowed out
pram – (British) baby carriage, stroller
blackouts – loss of electrical power in a larger area
lorries – (British) trucks
urged – strongly advised, asked

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