Many storms in recent years have also uprooted entire trees and, of course, always caused fences and sheds to collapse and roofs to disappear. But if I am honest, I also mourn my childhood. I even remember several storms that were many times worse. Perhaps we forget easily; I am actually quite sure that this is the case for most people. Such storms certainly make an impression, you would think, at least they did on me, perhaps also because I was home alone as a small child and saw it happen before my eyes, words flying through the air all day long and I stood there watching.
Now I read nonsense like: this was the coldest winter since 2022, and then I think of people looking back a few years to the 1980s or 1970s or 1960s, but suddenly that doesn't seem to count anymore.