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"My feet hurt. I've been wearing high heels all week. My feet are not used to them, but I will pull this off until they don't hurt anymore. I mean - you can't just stop walking because your feet hurt."
Draft that never got posted from last week.
My feet don't hurt anymore, just for the record. ;)
The weather is crazy. A hurricane has been building up the entire day, and it is supposed to hit its climax around 9pm around Munich; and Augsburg is only 60km away from Munich.
In the morning, they said on the news that if one was going to leave the office after 4.30pm, one should consider staying (?!?!?!) because it would be too dangerous.
I thought they were only exaggerating, but then I did I leave work early because on the radio, they said that from 3.30pm on, there would be no more trains to Augsburg! And the train I took was horribly, horribly packed. At 4pm, the public means of transportation stopped operating in Munich, and the entire city centre of Munich has been cordoned off and all the shops were closed hours ago!
Germany is not prepared what (I think) is ahead. I mean - how could we be prepared, we never have hurricanes here.
When I was on my way home, I saw that a meadow was completely on fire, but the fire brigade was nowhere to be seen, which was particularly surprising because their base is only a few minutes ago. I tried to call their hotline but it was busy for minutes. Then there happened to be two fire engines further down the street because roofing tiles had come off, so I told one of the firemen that there was an entire meadow burning. They asked me for directions and immediately drove there.
Crazy.
I wish I could have come along, I've never witnessed firemen work!
More "meaningful" entry one of these days..I am just too blown away (literally ;)) by the weather right now to really concentrate on writing.
Draft that never got posted from last week.
My feet don't hurt anymore, just for the record. ;)
The weather is crazy. A hurricane has been building up the entire day, and it is supposed to hit its climax around 9pm around Munich; and Augsburg is only 60km away from Munich.
In the morning, they said on the news that if one was going to leave the office after 4.30pm, one should consider staying (?!?!?!) because it would be too dangerous.
I thought they were only exaggerating, but then I did I leave work early because on the radio, they said that from 3.30pm on, there would be no more trains to Augsburg! And the train I took was horribly, horribly packed. At 4pm, the public means of transportation stopped operating in Munich, and the entire city centre of Munich has been cordoned off and all the shops were closed hours ago!
Germany is not prepared what (I think) is ahead. I mean - how could we be prepared, we never have hurricanes here.
When I was on my way home, I saw that a meadow was completely on fire, but the fire brigade was nowhere to be seen, which was particularly surprising because their base is only a few minutes ago. I tried to call their hotline but it was busy for minutes. Then there happened to be two fire engines further down the street because roofing tiles had come off, so I told one of the firemen that there was an entire meadow burning. They asked me for directions and immediately drove there.
Crazy.
I wish I could have come along, I've never witnessed firemen work!
More "meaningful" entry one of these days..I am just too blown away (literally ;)) by the weather right now to really concentrate on writing.