It all started this summer when I learned about the Eurythmics Peace tour and the final concert of the tour taking place in London in December. Although I had a ticket booked for the local Danish show in Copenhagen, I made a quick decision and called the London venue for a ticket. Months went by and I sorted out a discount flight and a place to stay in London. I was lucky to get in touch with a guy from the record company BMG in London. He liked my website and would like to offer me a free ticket in return for my efforts. That meant I was going to both the Saturday show at Wembley and the Monday show at London Arena. I was thrilled. Everything was taken care of, although I still had an unnerving feeling that something would go wrong.
Friday came. I had planned to go cross country by train to Copenhagen and stop over at my girlfriend’s until my plane departed Saturday at noon. Then: "A storm sweeping across the whole country," they said on the radio. As the day progressed, "storm" became "the hurricane of the century." Fortunately, my part of the country was not hit very hard. But Copenhagen was! Roofs came flying through the air. Cars tumbled over. Thousands of trees fell down blocking the roads. Trains stopped in their tracks leaving people trapped in the train cars.
I stayed up all night listening to the radio and desperately calling my girlfriend trying to figure out how to make it to the airport before 11 a.m. (a 3-4 hour ride by train or car). By around 3 a.m. the worst storm was over, by 6-7 a.m. the major roads were safe again, but the trains were still absolute chaos. I didn't have a car. To rent one would cost me a fortune. The plane ticket was non-refundable, and I wanted to make to the show at Wembley that same night. What should I do?
