Hamburg this morning.

[Old Crank]

Wave over a ferry bow.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/sulmf7/hamburg_germany_a_few_hours_ago/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x

[Phoenix61]

1. Yikes!!! nt

[secondwind]

2. WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!

[DFW]

3. Like I said in another post

The wind has been fierce today. Tonight it is supposed to taper off and then get even worse tomorrow afternoon. I'm supposed to run over to Holland tomorrow morning, and was supposed to stay the day. Instead, I think I'll run over at 7 AM, be there at 9, and get the hell back here to Germany two hours later. The Netherlands just announced they were shutting down their whole train system at 2 PM. I intend to be back here in Düsseldorf by then.

[chowder66]

4. Stay safe!

[DFW]

5. Tomorrow might be a bit of a challenge, but I intend to avoid/minimize risk

If the trains in NL are shutting down at 14:00, I definitely intend to be back across the border by then.

If the storm is faster-moving than announced, I will pack a set of clothes just in case, and spend the night in Utrecht. But that is definitely NOT the plan.

[chowder66]

9. While I don't envy dodging the storm I do envy the thought of spending the night in Utrecht.

[DFW]

10. I've done it several times, even though it's less than a 2 hour train ride from here

I prefer it when it's with my wife, and under more pleasant circumstances.

[DFW]

13. Well, this is starting out well

Before leaving the house, I checked the German train system site. My train to Holland isn't even running today.
To get to Utrecht, I have to take a series of local trains that get me there an hour later. I have to take the same series back, as the express trains in the other direction aren't running either.

[CaptainTruth]

6. Stay safe!!!

[DFW]

8. I intend to make every effort, thanks.

These wind storms are to be taken seriously here. Every year, a few idiots go out for a walk in the middle of one of these storms and get crushed into ground meat from some suddenly uprooted tree. I have not yet been one of them, and I am not about to change my status tomorrow, either. Reports said up to 120 kph is to be expected by tomorrow night. Not to be trifled with.

There will be an uptick in newborn babies here around late November, that's for sure.

[raccoon]

7. Watching it, wishing I was there, until it happened!

Watching it, wishing I was there, until it happened!I wonder if that had anything to do with climate change. I mean, rising sea levels. I know hamburg isn’t on the sea but maybe the rising seas raise the level of the river.

[DFW]

11. Not sure. It happens here almost every year, and has done so for decades

One year, it was so bad, it flattened a whole forest at the French-Swiss border. The Basel airport is actually in French territory, and the forest surrounding the airport had been turned into match sticks. This was over 20 years ago.

[Old Crank]

12. I'm in Munich

So we aren't getting it. We are only getting some edge winds from the storm, and rain. This link I got from friends in Hamburg. She had trouble walking to work.
Not much fun to be out in. Would hate to be driving a tractor trailer.