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The sledding pool

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Snow finally arrived in Berlin. And I am talking about a mentionable amount and not about the few flakes that melted at the ground before.The effect was that a giant group of families with kids used the opportunity took the sleds or everything that could be used as one out of the basement and went to the Volkspark Friedrichshain. Walking by I noticed a constant yelling and cheering similiar to the noise level that you have at public outdoor pools. It seems that for kids when it snows sledding is the equivalent fun to swimming. And even when it got really really cold in the evening, the sportive event went on at the hill in the park after dark. Probably anyways a good tip if you don’t wanna have it too crowded assuming though, that your eyes work perfectly.

the snow crisis

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And then there are those people who were shaking their heads over backward USA everytime when the hurricanes came and many people were without power. How could this happen in a country that probably considers itself as the technical most advanced country in the world? Unbelievable!

Now, it might be correct that Germany’s powersystem is more advanced having the power lines underground in towns and cities and such power outages happen very seldom. But that they do happen shows a recent power outage caused by the onset of winter in the western parts of Germany. Hundred thousands of people were right away without power and not because of a hurricane but “just” because 50 centimers (about 19 inches) of snow that came down in a short amount of time. The weight of the snow caused big iron overland poles to crack.

And even worse – in this industrialized country it was not possible to repair things completely so far since the snow came down before the weekend. While many people have power again, others are waiting in this cold weather.