Whales and crazy wind. You can never be bored in Iceland :)

We have extremely stormy weather in Iceland this week. It started on Tuesday. Snow storm and a huge wind up to 20 m/s. We couldn't go out with kids. A lot of cars went off the road, 500 tourists stuck near Golden Circle.. Search and rescue teams were call out to helped troubled people. Tinni was in a main edition of TV news during Björgunarsveitir's action, just have a look as the weather looked like. Tinni in Tv

Friday afternoon. Going out of the museum Whales of Iceland in Grandi, very close to my wooden hose by the harbour. We went them with school kids. Can't believe my eyes. I couldn't walk up the street. The gusts of wind were so strong that I was almost blown in the air. I got home wet and stressed because the struggle with the wind wasn't easy at all.

Today is Saturday. The strongest storm and wind this winter, it hadn't happen since last year, up to 30 m/s in the town.. I was awaken many times at night by extreme hauling of the wind.
Tinni woke up at 6 am and went to the seed of search and rescue team to attend the possible calling for help. I couldn't sleep afterwards, I was a little bit worried because never seen such a strong wind.. and then I woke up after 9 am again and I couldn't believe my eyes, the tall trees were almost lying on the ground around the house and moving with incredible speed up and down. Such a scary and creepy view.. I was wondering if the window panes will be strong enough and wouldn't crush while being under such a huge pressure of wind. And if my wooden house is still standing by the harbour without any harm.

While ago Tinni just called me to ask if everything is fine around the house because they got a call from our place at Vestubaer too. I went outside to checked it out as the wind is getting weaker, but still there are strong unpleasant  and possible dangerous gusts. I met a neighbour that notified the police about one of the trees and talked to her. Everything is fine, she was just afraid as she lives alone.

I hope Martin will be back soon. I felt relieved when I heard his warm and happy voice. Still a lot of work to do helping out people in need..

Different huge topic. Newly opened museum Whales of Iceland in Reykjavik is really awesome. I was hugely impressed by 23 to-scale artificial models of whales exhibited there. Every kind of whale found off the shores of Iceland is represented in 2 big rooms. It's the biggest whale museum in Europe according to The Guardian (more photos  and info here) and maybe, as same people say, even in the world.

The models are made of steel and foam and look very realistic. Have even friendly eyes looking at you with curiosity. You can see there even the blue whale, the largest and heaviest mammal to have evolved on Earth, up to 33.6 m long and can weigh even 190 tonnes... It really feels like walking among swimming whales at the sea bottom :))))

(photos by Domi, Samsung Galaxy S4)

“The idea is that you will feel like you’re walking on the bottom of the ocean. Everything you see will be cast in blue, and you will feel as if you are walking among swimming whales.”