What's Your Weather Like?

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    I remember my Dad, after spending some time in Germany, coming home and telling us how he laughed when seeing what they call a freeway exit..."ausfahrt." 😄

    Yea. An English teacher at my old school told my about this. All the Native English speaking visitors had a good laugh at a normal everyday word. In return, I could teach you something about what Johnny Depp's last name means to every German...

    About the weather, well it's still hot but the dry Eastern wind makes it bearable for once since it's less humid than usual. That's as far as the good side goes - we are having the driest summer since forever. Not a single drop of rain. Fields are yellow. Smoking and camp fires in forests have been prohibited to prevent wild fires. This is nothing like what a normal summer used to be here. Strange new climate.

    After having snow and ice in this region which usually has zero snow we now got ice rain. First time in my life I ever saw this: rain that instantly freezes everything into a layer of ice. Getting to work was an adventure, to put it nicely.

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    After having snow and ice in this region which usually has zero snow we now got ice rain. First time in my life I ever saw this: rain that instantly freezes everything into a layer of ice. Getting to work was an adventure, to put it nicely.

    Ice rain is the worst.


    I mean, short of disasters like tornadoes and so on.

    It's raining.

    It's pouring.


    On a side note, re: my ice rain comment above. Walking in it reminds me of the scene in Home Alone where the lanky thief is slipping and sliding down stairs that have been oiled or greased by the kid. But with the real fear of injury added.

    Local news said 250 people were injured in my city on this Wednesday morning and they had to open a mobile treatment center since hospitals were beyond their limits. Craziest thing I have ever seen. The official warnings were not exaggerated at all but who are employers to tell their workers to stay home?

    Frightful. Felt like -21c this morning waiting for the train to work. And the decoration on my office wall that passes for a thermostat has the temperature in here several degrees below the set point.