Snowstorms kaos today

Waiting for 3 hours for the bus, due to sudden snowstorms. Everyone´s still got summer tires on their cars, it has been summery mostly even with the autumn colors...and our first snow was Sunday, very light melting soon afterwards. It´s snowed heavily all last night, and this morning again with thick blustery snowstorms, hail and mostly snow. We´ve got nearly 5 inches of snow in our yard this morning by the time I walked out to catch the bus.

I waited. And waited. Yeah I figured ten or maybe even 15 minutes off schedule. Usually the buses run within 1-2 minutes of schedule, if not precisely on time. But rare delays from ice, snow, wrecks do happen of course. 3 hours later, after looking online from a phone at the local newspapers, when the Skyss didn´t answer about when or if a bus was coming, showed why.

Total kaos! Cars with summer tires going off the road, huge trucker tankers sliding off bridges and down embankments, traffic backed up chock-a-bloc for miles along the random winding island country roads, and even in the city, which is used to bad snowy weather. Wrecked cars abandoned in tunnels. Buses and cars from Steinrusten to Ravnanger, with wrecks, cars slipping on ice ended stuck in the air on the edge of a bridge barrier, ice or too much snow on the roads (which are furthest out, and hadn´t been able to have time to be plowed and iced yet enough to make a difference), all meant most of the buses hadn´t been able to arrive, or had been stuck somewhere along their route!

Just a few random links to local newspaper stories. One is from Voss, but same thing happened here, I just couldn´t find the exact link I was looking for.

I´m meeting friends later for supper, so selfishly I hope this gets sorted so I can actually get there, as now I´m stuck sat inside, blogging, looking out the window at the beautiful snowstorms and snow everywhere, hoping I can atleast get to town afore the Vinmonopoliet sp closes at 5pm. Was going to bring a bottle or 2 of wine to share:)

Will try again in a few hours, it´s too late to run errands in Bergen and surrounding islands, AND get back home to change & drop off stuff, AND then be back in Bergen to friends outside Bergen in opposite direction. So, a few hours to kill, will study, and eat:)

Last night´s supper still a few leftovers. Barely. And some pie left.

Was going to also get a new winter coat today, as the sales are half price for Helly Hansen. Well maybe I still have time for that, will just have to carry my old one and wear my new one to tonight´s supper!

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