Wild European Storm Has People, Objects Blowing Away In The Wind

People struggled with the winds in The Hague,
Netherlands this week as the worst storm in years swept through.

A severe storm battered much of Europe over the past couple of days, killing at least eight people amid hurricane-force wind gusts across the Netherlands, Germany and other nations in the region.

The storm was said to be the worst to strike Germany in 11 years. Train service was badly disrupted by trees falling on rail lines.

In the Netherlands, winds clocked as high as 90 mph sheared roofs from buildings, knocked over trucks on highways, pushed over stacks of containers at the port of Rotterdam and flung pedestrians across plazas in that city.

Insurers are already estimating about $110 million in damage in just the Netherlands from the storm.

Dramatic videos are below:

The first one is labeled "funny video" but I'm not sure it's funny that people were blown across this Netherlands plaza. (reports are the people weren't hurt, though.)



More storm footage:



Here's a German  news report of the storm. You likely don't understand German, but I'm sure you get the gist:



First half of this video shows a hair-raising plane landing during the storm at Dusseldorf's airport

Glad I Wasn't On This Flight To Netherlands Saturday

Big tree down in Amsterdam, The Netherlands after
worst summer storm on record Saturday. Photo
by Annemarje Heijerman via Instagram.  

The severest summer wind storm to hit the Netherlands at least since reliable records began in 1901 swept through Saturday, killing at least one person, injuring several others and causing widespread damage.

Winds gusted as high as 75 mph along the coast.  Tree damage was very bad in and around Amsterdam.

This wasn't a local thunderstorm. A strong low pressure system, very unusual for this time of year, blew across the region.

That storm did touch off a lot of severe thunderstorms ahead of its cold front in Poland and other countries.

One video that came out of the storm was a KLM flight trying to land in the storm. Spoiler: It did make it, and nobody got hurt, but I would have hated to be in this plane: