After the winter we all November, has stretched on the rack and all cast in tough sank, he let it rip early December really.
fell within a day the amount of rainfall for a whole month. As the snow! The loud-mouthed public utilities have failed miserably, Moscow's streets turned into chaos routes. The total length of all Moscow's traffic jams (who measure such things actually) was about 900 kilometers, which is half way to the Urals or the way until just before the Finnish border, Vyborg.
colleagues in this Day with the car drove to work were hopelessly too late and arrived after the day's work at home far after midnight. The entire garden ring was in both directions, which are at least 5-6 tracks on each side. For a short distance of one kilometer needed the stricken motorist 2-3 hours. Many were unnerved their cars, and dipped down in the metro. And it has all crashed, twice as many accidents as on "normal days" were registered. Popularly called those days "the day of the body plumber", because they all have their hands full. was through the Chaostag also suddenly aware that some car insurance companies collected the premiums and had then made from the dust. This will be a while until the market has cleaned safely. Perhaps the proclaimed fight against corruption, speed up the process somewhat.
The next day the media had already identified the scapegoat to the weather. You mentioned the approaching snow in their predictions with no word, however, accused their turn to nature, for a high can be no lush rain. Basta!
comes after fresh snow cold, thank God. With a minus -28 in the night and around 22 on the day had to struggle, especially the homeless. You try to get into the metro, in order to be able to sleep in the ring line and warm.
ice rinks are open on every corner, the active time of the winter begins.
Some ATMs gave up the ghost and kept the money for themselves, the inserted credit cards also.
on the Moskva river, or rather on the short route through the center, drive recently glazed chic restaurant ships, a ticket costs about 25 €. These are not just simple floating restaurants, but ice-breaker. For I love the Russians, for their unfathomable soul and their crazy ideas.
You want to continue to fight the traffic jams to build roads on the roofs. And the restless and not at innocent mayor has announced to leave no more snow in the city to shoot it with guns, to get that before the city down. Crazy idea, without snow, we sink into the mud. But something must be so distracted by his sins.
went past the holiday preparations going on two weeks before the New Year, now is it open to the world and begins following the example of Europeans in November of that. The shopping centers outside the city, are on the ring raided mercilessly tough jams form at the entrances and exits to these shopping malls.
Now I'm sitting on packed suitcases, a little on Christmas madness in Germania participate in early January, in time for the Russian Christmas, I'm back. The country emerges from the coma on 10 holiday January, as long as are official holidays. But the old new year on 13 and Christ's baptism on 19 January must be endured yet.
Come, dear reader, well over the holidays and New Year. Keep me weighed.