The Barcelona Council website runs a very useful RSS news service which updates you on what is going on in the city.
One feature is a Friday update on the weekend weather. Last Friday's called for some cloudy and mixed weather.
what we got on Saturday were hurricane force winds nearing 140kph which did huge damage to the city and region as a whole. Ben and I left the flat at 10am, saw a tree careering down the road and turned back. Huge pine trees were felled in our local park and on the main roads. Many of the suburbs in the hills still have no electricity.
Most tragically, four young baseball players, aged 9-12, were killed when the sports hall they were sheltering in collapsed and buried them. The photos of the boys, so smart in their outfits and caps, are too awful to look at in the papers.
But what on earth were they doing even going out to play on that morning? The winds had been wll signalled, having battered the Basque country on Friday and tracked down from there.
Why didn't the Generalitat cancel all sports as the Basque government had done?
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