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A big Autumn storm was to hit Finland and Oulu today. The wind’s been blowing and it’s been raining the whole day (very small raindrops, but there’s a lot of them everywhere because of the wind – it’s like a very heavy fog), but I wouldn’t call this weather a storm. It’s only a rainy day, and the wind blows in Oulu all the time.

There was a lot heavier rain a week ago. The drain cover jumped on top of water gush:

Someone’s been murdering youngish pine trees in Lintulammenpuisto by sawing them in two at waist height. The photos show the rather brutal details:

What turns someone into a tree-killer? A feeling of power when a tree falls down? Boredom?

Anyway, I also found the hidden murder weapon:

Celebrations of Oulu’s 400th birthday continue. There was an exhibition called “Aikamatka” in Ouluhalli, with set up pieces of historical Oulu and personnel in costumes. The old bus didn’t look that old, actually I think the bus I took to school until 10 years old was older than that..

There’s a new statue – or actually a collection of 32 small statues – behind the city hall, displaying different kinds of people of Oulu from the last 400 years in historical order:

All the museums had free admission last weekend, so we visited the museum of Pohjois-Pohjanmaa. Like every other museum following the trends, they had modern action figures for display. Except their display had a severe error:

The text tells about Star Trek figures, but the figure they have for display is Qui-Gon Jinn from Star Wars Episode I. My girlfriend pointed this out to a random member of the museum personnel, who didn’t seem to understand what the problem was. Some experts.

They also had a large small-scale model of Oulu from 1938:

Quite a lot of hay fields around the city center.