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When Nature Strikes Back

The locals are a little bit nervous about the weather this year. I guess after the floods last summer you can't blame. You also can't blame them because, well, Terrassenufer has never looked like this before.

The Terrassenufer

The Elbe has never been this high in the winter; it usually only covers the street in the Spring, and even then it only happens once every few years. It has the natives worried about what spring will bring this year.

Ice flows down the street

The floodwaters, combined with the crippling cold, provide a nice little punch. The temperature when I woke up this morning was -18C (-1F). My beard had ice chunks in it only a few minutes after walking out the door. It was cloudless precipitation most of the day; fine ice crystals falling out of a sunny sky, as the dew point was reached and frost claimed the last bit of humidity in the air.