The day after Kyrill

Watching the news and talking to friends and family, we found how very lucky we had been in the hurricane, one of many more to come due to the climate changing.
Thommy had been called in the middle of the night from his collegues at Wasserwerk Flehe, providing water for the area, he's responsible for everything out there, workers, supplies, the lot. He left at once and spent half the night there. We were worried about him and glad when he was safely back home. The storm had damaged the buildings, but luckily noone of his men was injured. But more than hundred trees blown onto the streets and into the small river Düssel. The men were working hard to clear the area. Until then almost all roads through the woods are closed, it's too dangerous to cross.
All over Germany Kyrill had hit. In some places, only a few roads are open, schools still closed, people asked to stay at home. Stations and airports had been filled for long hours all through the night with stranded passengers waiting to get on. I might have been one of them.
Otherwise it was a fine day. At around 11 pm Marius, my great-nephew, came home from school with the results of his schoolyear so far (not bad at all, but he could do better if he only felt like it). As a special treat to celebrate a bit, we went to IKEA by bus (only 5 minutes to go, wow!), had some köttbullar, and looked for frames and lamps. No frames, but a nice lamp for my Berlin flat, at a reduced prize because of winter sales "Knut". Knut is celebrated in Sweden on January 13, as the traditonal day to remove the xmas tree, and throw it out the house. Talking of falling trees...
In the evening Helen and her boyfriend Felix joined us for a quiet family evening watching tv, wondering who might win the dance contest. I went to bed early with a book and an ibu-ratiopharm like I always do when I feel a cold approaching. My sister talked me into reading the crime series on the lower rhine region north of Düsseldorf, great stories, the first almost won the Glauser prize in 1992. Check them out here, buy at your local dealer and enjoy!