Hit by a tornado (trombi)

This morning, about an hour ago, we noticed that light stuff like leaves and paper were flying around in the backyard in distinctive circular and upward pattern. Soon heavier stuff like big branches followed – and after some 30 seconds or so, it was gone. There didn’t initally appear to be a lot of damage – until we look out the other windows; there are multiple big fallen trees, one blocking the road. Of course this warranted an outdoors excursion, which revealed that more than a dozen trees had fallen down in our local small park alone!

The phenomenon is called trombi in Finnish, a sort of a local variant of tornadoes – although they are usually less much destructive, they can lift roofs and create flying cars and other interesting stuff. Nothing that big here this time, but I’ve never seen that strong a wind this close. Exciting.

It apparently came from the direction of Tali, where some people were even hurt.

Update: clearing

Surprisingly soon the fire department came to clear up the tree blocking the road. Efficiently and fast they cleared up enough so that cars could pass:

But then some hapless semis came in and it turned out they couldn’t quite get through, so some heavier equipment was needed to further clear the way:

Update 2: Sarita also took a couple photos of the damage, available here.