Laut melanda jalan2 Harbour banjir di Helsingborg, selatan Sweden, pada 6 Disember 2013 sebagai ribut Xaver melanda selatan Sweden pada malam Khamis. (The sea hits the flooded Harbour Road in Helsingborg, southern Sweden, on December 6, 2013 as storm Xaver hit southern Sweden on Thursday night (AFP Photo/TT News Agency/Johan Nilsson/Sweden out – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
JohnnyAdam – Beratus-ratus ribu orang telah ditinggalkan tanpa kuasa atau terdampar oleh huru-hara pengangkutan sebagai ribut Xaver melanda seluruh Eropah utara. Sekurang-kurangnya 9 orang terbunuh dalam bencana itu.
Perkhidmatan kecemasan di seluruh rantau ini berjuang semalaman untuk memaksakan daik kurang tajam, mengosongkan kawasan pelabuhan banjir dan membaiki kerosakan daripada pokok-pokok digulingkan yang terhempas ke rumah-rumah, jalan raya dan talian kuasa.
Ribut Atlantik Xaver melanda ke utara Eropah lewat hari Khamis selepas mengganggu pengangkutan dan kuasa di utara Britain di mana 2 orang telah mati. Angin sehingga 158 kilometer sejam berlaras di seluruh Jerman, Belanda, Poland dan bahagian selatan Scandinavia.
Blackouts melanda 400,000 rumah di Poland dan terjejas 50,000 orang di Sweden, manakala beribu-ribu penumpang udara terkandas sebagai penerbangan dibatalkan di Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Gdansk dan lapangan terbang lain, AFP melaporkan.
9 dead, thousands affected as Storm Xaver Sweeps
East Across Europe . . .
Hundreds of thousands have been left without power or stranded by transportation chaos as the storm Xaver is sweeping across northern Europe. At least nine people have died in the disaster.
Emergency services across the region battled overnight to sandbag sodden dykes, evacuate flooded harbor areas and repair damage from toppled trees that crashed onto houses, roads and power lines.
Atlantic storm Xaver swept into northern Europe late Thursday after disrupting transport and power in northern Britain where two people have died. The winds of up to 158 kilometers per hour barreled across Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and southern parts of Scandinavia.
Blackouts hit 400,000 homes in Poland and affected 50,000 people in Sweden, while thousands of air passengers were stranded as flights were canceled at Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Gdansk and other airports, AFP reports.
Kereta terkandas di dalam kesesakan lalu lintas semasa salji berat turun di Olpe, Jerman, pada 6 Disember 2013. (Cars stand in a traffic jam during heavy snow falls in Olpe, Germany, on December 6, 2013. (AFP Photo/DPA/Marius Becker/Germany out – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Di bandar Poland Poraj, dahan pokok yang besar telah tumbang ke kereta2 dengan angin yang kuat Jumaat. 3 orang terbunuh dan satu cedera dalam kemalangan itu, Reuters melaporkan. Bencana, dianggap ribut paling teruk untuk memukul benua dalam beberapa dekad, juga membunuh dua orang dan mencederakan berpuluh-puluh di UK sebagai angin mencapai kelajuan maksimum 225 kilometer sejam.
Seorang pemandu lori mati apabila kenderaannya terbalik, dengan lelaki lain yang terbunuh oleh pokok yang tumbang. Kira-kira 10,000 rakyat Britain telah dipindahkan dari rumah mereka di kawasan pantai timur rendah pada hari Khamis, dengan pihak berkuasa memberi amaran bahawa bahaya masih belum berlalu lagi.
UK sedang menghadapi lonjakan pasang surut yang paling serius untuk lebih daripada 60 tahun sebagai paras laut di beberapa kawasan melebihi mereka semasa banjir dahsyat tahun 1953, yang menyaksikan lebih 300 terbunuh.
In the Polish town of Poraj, the branch of a huge tree was thrown into a car by a strong wind Friday. Three people were killed and one injured in the accident, Reuters reports. The disaster, considered the worst storm to hit the continent in decades, also killed two people and injured dozens in the UK as winds reached maximum speeds of 225 kilometers per hour.
A truck driver died when his vehicle overturned, with another man being killed by a falling tree. Around 10,000 Britons were evacuated from their homes in low-lying east coast areas on Thursday, with the authorities warning that the danger hasn’t passed yet.
The UK is facing the most serious tidal surge for more than 60 years as sea levels in some areas exceed those during the devastating floods of 1953, which saw over 300 killed.
Kakitangan perkhidmatan kecemasan berdiri di pantai berhampiran rumah chalet yang ditarik ke dalam ke laut semasa lonjakan pasang surut di Hemsby, di timur England, pada 6 Disember 2013. (Emergency services personnel stand on the beach near a chalet home that was drawn into th sea during a tidal surge at Hemsby, in the east of England, on December 6, 2013. (AFP Photo/Justin Tallis – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Beberapa rumah tepi pantai, pondok bot penyelamat dan kafe jatuh ke dalam laut yang berikut ribut di Norfolk, Daily Mail melaporkan. “Ia hanya berlaku dengan begitu pantas semalam. Satu minit ia adalah selamat dan minit seterusnya ia telah hilang,” Steven Connelly, pemilik rumah tepi pantai terjejas akibat ribut itu, memberitahu akhbar itu.
Pertahanan banjir didirikan di Britain selepas 1953 acara telah dilindungi lebih daripada 800,000 rumah, Owen Paterson, Setiausaha Alam Sekitar di UK, berkata selepas mesyuarat kerajaan darurat Jumaat. Di Denmark , seorang penumpang wanita berusia 72 tahun trak berkubur apabila kenderaan terbalik di lolongan angin.
Pengawal pantai Sweden sedang mencari laut selama 2 kelasi yang telah dibersihkan dari dek kargo kapal Belanda 22 kilometer, Laporan laman web tempatan.
Several beachside houses, a lifeboat hut and a cafe fell into the sea following the storm in Norfolk, the Daily Mail reports. “It just happened so fast yesterday. One minute it was safe and the next minute it was gone,” Steven Connelly, a beachside house owner affected by the storm, told the paper.
The flood defenses erected in Britain after the 1953 events had protected more than 800,000 homes, Owen Paterson, the UK’s Environment Secretary, said after an emergency government meeting Friday. In Denmark, a 72-year-old female passenger of a truck died when the vehicle overturned in howling winds.
Sweden’s coast guards are searching the sea for two sailors who were washed off the deck of a Dutch cargo ship 22 kilometers, The Local website reports.
Gelombang melanda depan laut pada 6 Disember 2013 di Raageleje, utara Copenhagen, sebagai ribut Haver melanda Denmark. (Waves hit the sea front on December 6, 2013 in Raageleje, north of Copenhagen, as storm Haver hits Denmark. (AFP Photo/Scanpix Denmark/Keld Navntoft/Denmark out – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Beberapa lintasan feri ke dan dari Sweden telah dibatalkan, dengan keputusan yang dibuat untuk menghentikan kereta api di selatan negara ini. “Kami tidak mahu menghadapi risiko terhempas ke dalam terbang pokok di 160 kilometer sejam,” Linus Eriksson daripada Swedish perkhidmatan kereta api SJ memberitahu agensi berita TT. Sekurang-kurangnya satu orang telah mati di selatan negara ini selepas pokok jatuh dalam angin kencang.
Kira-kira 4,000 orang kekal tanpa kuasa di utara Jerman, dengan sekolah-sekolah ditutup dan kira-kira 70 penerbangan di lapangan terbang Hamburg dibatalkan. Pengendali kereta api di negara ini, Deutsche Bahn, berkata serpihan yang tersumbat garis kelajuan tinggi antara bandar-bandar terbesar di negara ini, Hamburg dan Berlin.
Air banjir di pelabuhan Hamburg meningkat kepada 6 meter di atas paras normal awal Jumaat, yang paling tinggi dalam beberapa dekad, kata pegawai-pegawai. Sementara itu, Xaver terus bergerak ke arah timur, dengan ribut amaran diisytiharkan di Kaliningrad, Rusia wilayah barat di pantai Laut Baltik.
Several ferry crossings to and from Sweden were canceled, with a decision made to halt trains in the south of the country. “We did not want to run the risk of crashing into a tree flying at 160 kilometers an hour,” Linus Eriksson from Swedish rail service SJ told the TT news agency. At least one person has already died in the south of the country after a tree fell in the fierce gusts of wind.
About 4,000 people remain without power in northern Germany, with schools closed and about 70 flights at Hamburg airport canceled. The country’s rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, said that the debris blocked a high-speed line between the country’s largest cities, Hamburg and Berlin.
Floodwaters in the port of Hamburg rose to 6 meters above normal levels early Friday, the highest in decades, the officials said. Meanwhile, Xaver continues moving eastward, with storm alert declared in Kaliningrad, the western Russian enclave on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Sebuah bot terbaring sebelah, pada 6 Disember 2013 di Thorsminde Harbour, di pantai barat iin Jutland sebagai ribut Haver melanda Denmark. (A boat lying on the side, on December 6, 2013 in Thorsminde Harbour, on the west coast iin Jutland as storm Haver hits Denmark. (AFP Photo/Scanpix Denmark/Keld Navntoft/Denmark out – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
RIBUT Xaver dilaporkan adalah Malapetaka yang
BERBAHAYA di Seluruh EROPAH . . .
JohnnyAdam – Angin taufan yang telah digulingkan pokok, koyak bumbung terbuka dan berbau malapetaka di seluruh Eropah utara. Di Poland, Ribut Xaver membunuh 3 orang dan mencederakan lain apabila cawangan terputus ditiupkan ke atas dan menghancurkan kereta.
Angin kencang juga menjatuhkan garis elektrik, meninggalkan lebih daripada 100,000 orang tanpa kuasa. Syarikat penerbangan LOT Poland juga terpaksa membatalkan bebe-rapa penerbangan domestik dan Eropah kerana apa yang digambarkan sebagai, “peruba-han cuaca yang tidak dijangka.”
Sementara itu di Jerman kira-kira 4,000 orang di bahagian utara negara adalah tanpa kuasa. Sekolah-sekolah dan beberapa jalan raya ditutup, manakala kira-kira 70 penerban-gan keluar dari Hamburg dibatalkan.
Satu barisan kereta api berkelajuan tinggi antara Hamburg dan Berlin telah ditutup selepas ia menghalang oleh sampah-sarap di trek. Di Britain, beribu-ribu telah dipindah-kan berikutan lonjakan pasang surut - yang paling teruk dalam tempoh 60 tahun - di sepanjang pantai timur negara itu.
Storm Xaver reeks deadly havoc across Europe
Its hurricane force winds have toppled trees, torn open roofs and reeked havoc across northern Europe. In Poland, Storm Xaver killed three people and injured another when a severed branch was blown onto and crushed a car.
High winds also downed electricity lines, leaving more than 100,000 people without power. The Polish airline LOT was also forced to cancel some domestic and European flights due to what was described as, "unexpected weather changes."
Meanwhile in Germany about 4,000 people in the north of country were without power. Schools and some roads were closed, while about 70 flights out of Hamburg were cancelled.
A high-speed rail line between Hamburg and Berlin was closed after it was blocked by falling debris on the tracks. In Britain, thousands were evacuated due to a tidal surge - the worst in 60 years - along the east coast of the country.
Lonjakan pasang surut paling teruk dalam tempoh 60 tahun
adunan pantai timur UK dan seret rumah ke laut . . .
JohnnyAdam – Rumah telah musnah sebagai lonjakan yang paling teruk pasang surut yang melanda UK dalam tempoh 60 tahun melanda pantai timur Britain pada hari Khamis. Agensi Alam Sekitar menganggarkan bahawa pertahanan laut dilindungi lebih daripada 800,000 rumah, tetapi apabila lonjakan digabungkan dengan pasang surut air dan angin yang kuat banyak halangan telah dilanggar.
Kerja-kerja pembaikan kini dijalankan dalam banyak komuniti. Dalam Hemsby di Norfolk tujuh syarikat itu digulingkan daripada jawatan cenuram dan runtuh ke dalam laut. Beribu-ribu rumah di sepanjang pantai timur telah dipindahkan sebagai Laut Utara men-capai tahap yang lebih tinggi daripada itu semasa banjir dahsyat tahun 1953.
2 orang mati pada ribut Khamis, tetapi cuaca kini dikatakan telah berkurangan, walau bagaimanapun, banjir dijangka berterusan sepanjang hari Jumaat.
Worst tidal surge in 60 years batters UK east coast
and drags homes into the sea
Homes were destroyed as the worst tidal surge to hit the UK in 60 years struck the east coast of Britain on Thursday. The Environmental Agency estimated that sea defences protected more than 800,000 homes, but when the surge combined with high tides and strong winds many barriers were breached.
Repair works are now underway in many communities. In Hemsby in Norfolk seven houses were toppled from their clifftop positions and collapsed into the sea. Thousands of homes along the east coast were evacuated as the North Sea reached higher levels than it did during the devastating floods of 1953.
Two people died in Thursday's storms, but the weather is now said to be easing, however, flooding is expected to continue throughout Friday. Report by Laurie Blake.
Pandangan udara: rumah jatuh ke dalam laut di Hemsby,
Norfolk selepas lonjakan pasang surut
MADAyuMadyan | JohnnyAdam – Rakaman helikopter menunjukkan kerosakan yang disebabkan kepada rumah di Hemsby, Norfolk, berikutan lonjakan air terbesar di pantai selama 60 tahun, dan gelombang pemukul pantai Lincolnshire (Aerial view: homes fall into sea in Hemsby, Norfolk after tidal surge. Helicopter footage shows the damage caused to homes in Hemsby, Norfolk, following the biggest water surge on the coast for 60 years, and waves battering the coast of Lincolnshire).
