Extensive damage: Rocks and loose objects scattered everywhere

A great deal of damage has been caused in Stöðvarfjörður in the storm last night, night and this morning. Roof panels have blown off houses and, among other things, the entire roof of a garage has disappeared.

Windows have been broken in houses on a large scale and in quite a few cars. Many trees have also been taken down.

Margeir Margeirsson, the chief of the Fjarðarbyggð fire station in Stöðvarfjörður, says in an interview with mbl.is that the storm began with great noise last night and continued with great noise until after nightfall. Roofs have then been blown off and windows have been broken in many places.

Very few people carried out the tasks

Five to six firefighters in Stöðvarfjörður have carried out the tasks that have arisen, but it has not been possible to get crews between the fjords due to the severe weather.

"We've been at this all night and all morning. There's nothing we can do except take the loose parts, roof panels, and other things and try to get them under cover and put them away because it's impossible to go up on the roofs in this kind of weather," Margeirsson says.

He says the weather came from all directions last night and night. "There are two people who have wind stations like this at their homes and at one place the maximum was 57.6 meters per second and at the other around 58 last night."

Havoc at the marina

As the morning wore on, Margeirsson says the wind had been more inland and across the fjord, and then more rocks and all kinds of debris had been blown in and hit cars.

The landing stage at the marina gave way just before noon and the so-called finger that the boats are moored at broke when a boat was thrown onto it in one of the swells.

“We were moving the boat to another finger and tying it there. It looks pretty good there now.”

Margeirsson says it’s a little further between storms now, but that there are still big storms. “Windows and stuff are still breaking. We’re going to two houses now.”

Margeirsson has been a fire chief for a decade and says he’s never experienced this before.

“We had really bad weather at the beginning of the year five years ago, but it was much shorter. Then it rained and the windows broke, but not this much.”