Is everyone okay? (random post on weather)
You may have heard that we've had that monster hurricane over here in Europe. Now, we don't usually get those over here, so everything was pretty much chaotic.
All trains were halted here in Germany on Thursday afternoon and there were no trains running till Friday morning. We've had power outages, trees blocking tracks and streets, trucks getting blown over on the highways...
It was pretty 'calm' around where I live but I could hear even more sirens at night than usual (the university hospital is pretty close). We were lucky though, because most university students got sent home by 2 or 3 p.m. on Thursday when trains were still running.
I wanted to go to my parents' place to pick up some books on Thursday but I'm glad I didn't o_O.
(Probably would've had to walk back home from the station because even buses and trams were not moving!) Anyway, I thought by Friday evening everything would've have gone back to normal, but it turned out I was wrong! First of all I had problems getting to the stations because only a few trams were running and when I finally got to the main station hundreds of people were lining up at the information counters or just waiting for information on 'any train' that was going into the direction they were headed. Unlike many others I got lucky because they announced a train going into the 'general direction' of my parents' place after just half an hour's wait. But within those 30 minutes I had three groups of people around me who were looking for 'cab partners' to form spontaneous 'cab pools'. Imagine those poor people who were stuck there since Thursday...there's a lot of big trade fairs in this area and some people just couldn't go back to wherever they came from because flights were canceled and public transport was not working.
What an odd experience.
This certainly is the weirdest "winter" ever. I was told last year was the coldest winter(since they started taking records) and this year's winter was the warmest. I mean, it's mid-January and we're having about 15°Celsius....this feels like winter in Okinawa minus the humidity...o_O
I haven't seen snow for about 2 years now (because of Okinawa...and I went to mainland in late February/March so there was no snow either...)...once it's gone you really start missing the cold weather, I guess.
Sorry for the weird post...
All trains were halted here in Germany on Thursday afternoon and there were no trains running till Friday morning. We've had power outages, trees blocking tracks and streets, trucks getting blown over on the highways...
It was pretty 'calm' around where I live but I could hear even more sirens at night than usual (the university hospital is pretty close). We were lucky though, because most university students got sent home by 2 or 3 p.m. on Thursday when trains were still running.
I wanted to go to my parents' place to pick up some books on Thursday but I'm glad I didn't o_O.
(Probably would've had to walk back home from the station because even buses and trams were not moving!) Anyway, I thought by Friday evening everything would've have gone back to normal, but it turned out I was wrong! First of all I had problems getting to the stations because only a few trams were running and when I finally got to the main station hundreds of people were lining up at the information counters or just waiting for information on 'any train' that was going into the direction they were headed. Unlike many others I got lucky because they announced a train going into the 'general direction' of my parents' place after just half an hour's wait. But within those 30 minutes I had three groups of people around me who were looking for 'cab partners' to form spontaneous 'cab pools'. Imagine those poor people who were stuck there since Thursday...there's a lot of big trade fairs in this area and some people just couldn't go back to wherever they came from because flights were canceled and public transport was not working.
What an odd experience.
This certainly is the weirdest "winter" ever. I was told last year was the coldest winter(since they started taking records) and this year's winter was the warmest. I mean, it's mid-January and we're having about 15°Celsius....this feels like winter in Okinawa minus the humidity...o_O
I haven't seen snow for about 2 years now (because of Okinawa...and I went to mainland in late February/March so there was no snow either...)...once it's gone you really start missing the cold weather, I guess.
Sorry for the weird post...