Dimona has experienced what we in Liepāja call a regular storm

Yesterday in Dimona, Israel, 39 people were injured in a rocket strike, and now everyone's talking about it like it's something unusual. But as our Lake Liepāja residents, who are used to the calm after surviving sea storms, say: "That's nothing! We experience equally dramatic events here every winter when the wind tears off roofs."

Israel's emergency service "Magen David Adom" reported extensive damage, but Liepāja grandmother Ausma comments: "Well, good thing they even have emergency services. Sometimes we have to wait longer than it takes for a rocket to fly from Iran to Israel."

Dimona is located next to a nuclear reactor, where Israel's nuclear weapons are also stored. That is admittedly a bit more dangerous than our Lake Liepāja, where the biggest danger is forgetting your fishing rods at home. At least the nuclear reactor doesn't have to become the city's main tourist attraction, like our Karosta is.

Local Liepāja experts point out that if Dimona residents survived one winter in Liepāja, they would consider such incidents a pleasant interruption to garden work. "Things fall from the sky here too," laughs pensioner Marija, "it's just that usually it's only seagulls with bad intentions."