huh? fishy organ storm

The storm “Kyrill” hit Germany Thursday causing widespread damage and disruption with wind speeds
of up to 191 km/h (118 mph). source: Der SpiegelThe heating and water meter reader came by for our annual reading. As he took the tubes from each heater and replaced them with new ones, he received a call from the base station. I thought he told me someone else was coming to take more measurements at 8 o’clock. Finally he told me it’s only a storm.

My confusion last night or at least what it felt like:
Kyrill is coming. Who? Not who, but what. You mean the little fish that whales eat? No, the massive orkan that will make it’s way to Munich by 8pm tonight. There’s an organ coming to Munich? ugh! nevermind :doh:

I really should know better. Like with tropical storms and hurricanes, Kyrill isn’t a type of storm but the name of the low pressure area that evolved on my birthday into a huge-ass European windstorm storm, which in German is called a Orkan.

Since Alex now lives in Regensburg during the week I manned the house alone last night. Before 8 pm rolled by, I cleared the balcony and rolled down the outside window shutters and closed the windows shut. The winds gusts were crazy outside and hardly any rain. My experience with Hurricane Charlie, the closest I’ve been too the eye of a storm, was not as frightening as last night’s wind siege. I stayed up the entire night to what sounded like the twisting and stressing of metal and creaking from the outside. I jerked up several times to the sound of patio furniture slamming about in the neighboring balcony above my apartment. I’m pretty tired but things look alright outside, just those freaky noises were nerve wrecking. Other places in Europe were not too fortunate from the looks of it on the news. I’m thinking winters are pretty mild in Florida…