{"id":49,"date":"2006-12-02T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T21:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/?p=49"},"modified":"2013-02-26T09:47:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T09:47:34","slug":"anniversary-of-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of Devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image45\" src=\"http:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/snowstorm2_s.jpg\" alt=\"snowstorm2_s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the night of 25th to 26th of November 2005, the area of Western Muensterland was hit by a heavy snowstorm.  Within minutes power poles cracked like matches and their steel cables tore to tatters. Electricity, traffic and the whole communication system &#8211; including mobil phones &#8211; were interrupted. All of a sudden, time stood still and the whole area &#8211; covered by snow &#8211; was separated from the rest of the world for several days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image44\" src=\"http:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/snowstorm1_s.jpg\" alt=\"snowstorm1_s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Officials say it was nothing but an extraordinary weather condition, a normal incident &#8211; but if you listen to people who witnessed the storm, they will report very weird stories:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; wind blew from continously changing directions.<br \/>\n&#8211; the temperature sank within minutes under zero degrees (32\u00b0 F)<br \/>\n&#8211; snow and ice fell horizontally, some say it was like sitting under a rotating ventilator<br \/>\n&#8211; some could even hear strange noises &#8211; describing it like the fly past of a giant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vacuum_cleaner#How_it_works\">vakuum cleaner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m not very much surprised hearing rumours in that area it might have been a comet, a UFO or whatever kind of energy from outer space. Fact is: everything happened within a few hours, the snow spread fast on a small strip of land of just a few kilometers. It appeared to arrive from the Netherlands and stopped &#8211; like a big stranded whale &#8211; at the westside of Schoeppinger Berg.<\/p>\n<p>How can a heavy storm leave such destruction &#8211; and not overcome such a small obstacle? The hill is neither very high (just 150m of altitude), nor very wide (2kms). to its left and right the landscape is flat like a pancake.<\/p>\n<p>Was it a coincidence that the storm stopped and rotated in front of a former Dutch Nike Radar? I&#8217;m curious if you academics out there can answer this &#8211; or are you having the same difficulty explaining such issues.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image51\" src=\"http:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/snowstorm5_s.jpg\" alt=\"snowstorm5_s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image50\" src=\"http:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/snowstorm4_s.jpg\" alt=\"snowstorm4_s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of 25th to 26th of November 2005, the area of Western Muensterland was hit by a heavy snowstorm. Within minutes power poles cracked like matches and their steel cables tore to tatters. Electricity, traffic and the whole communication system &#8211; including mobil phones &#8211; were interrupted. All of a sudden, time stood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-john.de\/lostplaces\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}