

At the Harbor full containers of 40 have been turned over according to TV News. Ive never seen it this bad here. Ive been on a ship a few times where the winds were 25 to 30 meters but never seen it here hit inland this bad.
Autumn gales cause damage across Southern Finland
Cross on Töölö Church buckles in the wind
More than 70,000 homes across Finland were without electricity on Monday evening after strong gale-force winds brought down power lines and caused structural damage.
The lights were out for around 38,000 Vattenfall customers, mainly in the Häme and Pirkanmaa regions, and for 33,000 Fortum clients in Southern and Southeastern Finland.
At around 22:30 on Monday night Fortum announced it had managed to repair around half of the damage caused by the storm, while Vattenfall reported that some of the broken connections would only be fixed in the course of Tuesday morning.
The storm began to die down in southern districts by around midnight, but before then emergency services had had hundreds of calls of fallen trees and damage to roofs, ripped away by the fierce winds.
In gusts the wind was in places well in excess of 20 metres a second, or more than 70 km/hour.
Around Orimattila, between Helsinki and Lahti, several mobile phone masts were damaged, reducing signal strength. The Häme emergency centre reported that calls in from Sonera numbers were not being received at all. The fault was fixed during the night.
There was structural damage caused in Helsinki, with among the most noticeable cases being the five-metre cross on top of the Töölö Church, which buckled in the wind and was left hanging precariously from the roof.
The structure, weighing several hundred kilos, was still dangling high above the street on Tuesday morning.
In Espoo, the wind caused damage to at least two sports halls. An inflatable hall housing a golf range and tennis courts in Perkkaa was blown down. Around 20 people were inside at the time, but there were no injuries.
The considerably more solid Espoo Arena also had to be shut briefly as a precaution when movement was seen in insulation panels in the roof.
A part of the Iso Omena shopping mall in Espoo had to be closed on Tuesday morning following the discovery that the storm had ripped away two panels of an exterior wall that were hanging dangerously.
The cause of all the trouble was a typical angry autumn depression that whipped across Southern and Central Finland during Monday evening and the early hours of Tuesday morning.
According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the winds in the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia were blowing at 26 metres/second at their strongest, with gusts up to 34m/s.
Even onshore, the gales reached dangerous levels: well over 20 metres a second in gusts. The deep area of low pressure moved away eastwards towards Russia overnight, but winds in the south of the country will remain strong during Tuesday, and the country is likely to be in for a little more of the driving rain that accompanied last night's storm.
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