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Well it seems that wooden villages in norway are burning down. Yes, villages, not houses, neighborhoods.
First Lærdal lost 20 or so buildings, now Håsavåg, Småværete and Flatanger are adding between 50-70 houses.
Still not a peep about open fire places, wood stoves and and insufficient fire department coverage in rural areas. Norway is burning.
Amusing considering the last thread about Norway I remember here was about that joy of wood burning TV show.
139 houses now, they are burning as we post
the coast guard with it's water cannons can't actually get close enough to the villages that are burning.
Finally karma strikes.
katmai is a bitch.
I went to look this up and there were many stories about this happening in another village earlier this month.
Is there a drought or something? Why is this suddenly happening now?
And Vikes, why are you of all people immediately resorting to the "OMG somebody ban something!!!111" response?
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on January 28, 2014, 01:40:10 PM
Is there a drought or something? Why is this suddenly happening now?
Have you seen Mississippi Burning?
Quote from: The Brain on January 28, 2014, 01:43:50 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on January 28, 2014, 01:40:10 PM
Is there a drought or something? Why is this suddenly happening now?
Have you seen Mississippi Burning?
Or Paris Is Burning?
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on January 28, 2014, 01:40:10 PM
Is there a drought or something? Why is this suddenly happening now?
Not a drought. Droughts don't happen in Norway. What is happening was a sudden cold spike starting mid january.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on January 28, 2014, 01:41:13 PM
And Vikes, why are you of all people immediately resorting to the "OMG somebody ban something!!!111" response?
Nobody in norwegian media has brought the cause up or speculated as to what it might have been yet. I am speculating that it is related to open fire places and wood burning stoves. This winter has been mild until mid january so I suspect that many of these fire places were being used for the first time this winter.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on January 28, 2014, 01:41:13 PM
And Vikes, why are you of all people immediately resorting to the "OMG somebody ban something!!!111" response?
I didn't read this right the first time. I'm not advocating a ban. I'd advocate education.
However, the municipal authorities in the nearby coastal counties have now instituted a ban on open flames in the outdoors. The wind coupled with the lack of snow on the ground is now being blamed for the fires.
First churches, now villages. :hmm:
Have they started looking for longships full of Irish monks yet?
Did it start with ceremonially torching a longboat?
I can imagine this is what it was like in earlier times, that fires were a more frequent problem before the advent of central heating and gas/electric stoves.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on January 28, 2014, 11:01:56 AM
Finally karma strikes.
In retrospect, I feel bad about making light of these misfortunes so flippantly. In my defense I was reading the chapter in Peter Heather's latest book that covers the Vikings so it leaped to mind.
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 29, 2014, 05:03:36 AM
First churches, now villages. :hmm:
Some new Metal cult?
Most likely, open fire places like Viking said. If they have been used only sporadically and not cleaned before intensive use, it is totally possible for problems to arise.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on January 29, 2014, 11:45:00 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on January 28, 2014, 11:01:56 AM
Finally karma strikes.
In retrospect, I feel bad about making light of these misfortunes so flippantly. In my defense I was reading the chapter in Peter Heather's latest book that covers the Vikings so it leaped to mind.
Nobody died, so it's still funny. Ok, not funny, merely not in bad taste.
In addtion to fire, now add flooding. A land-slide in Namdal fell into the fjord causing a 4-5 meter high tsunami in that fjord. Forces of nature are really having a go....