{"id":1324,"date":"2022-01-12T19:18:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2022-01-29T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:10:18","slug":"red-umbrella-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/2022\/01\/12\/red-umbrella-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Umbrella Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Trondheim is under a red umbrella alert, which means we are getting a lot of rain over the next couple days. Apparently this doesn\u2019t happen very often. This storm is pummeling most of the Norwegian coastline with rain, wind, and waves, and the Norwegian weather service has named it \u201cGyda\u201d. That\u2019s how you know it\u2019s bad – it has its own name. But so far, the storm hasn\u2019t been too bad. A lot of wind, a lot of rain, but nothing worse than I\u2019ve seen in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure you can imagine my confusion descending into downright panic when the air raid sirens sounded for about five minutes straight on my lunch break. What\u2019s the Norwegian word for \u201cevacuate?\u201d Is some dude in camo going to show up and start yelling at me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, this is my first time living through a storm this bad in a foreign country. I have no idea where to find information, and whatever I do find is in a foreign language. Google Translate helps, but its occasional failures don\u2019t inspire confidence. It frequently translates \u201cLes mer\u201d, which means \u201cread more\u201d and is found on practically every website, as \u201cThe sea.\u201d A quick search on the Internet told me to check NRK – the Norwegian public radio system. But, like any true millennial I don\u2019t have a radio, so I checked the NRK app on my phone, which was full of complaints about the price of electricity. So I started sending messages on Teams to my coworkers, trying to triangulate the location of the sirens. My coworker up the hill in Ranheim didn\u2019t hear it. The one on the other side of the city, by the hospital, could. What was going on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns out the Norwegian Civil Defense Force is obligated to test the warning alarm twice a year, and they just so happened to pick the day the storm arrived to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trondheim is under a red umbrella alert, which means we are getting a lot of rain over the next couple days. Apparently this doesn\u2019t happen very often. This storm is pummeling most of the Norwegian coastline with rain, wind, and waves, and the Norwegian weather service has named it \u201cGyda\u201d. That\u2019s how you know it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-norway","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikegerhardt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}