Heavy snow fall in Munich - weekend 4/5.Mar.2006

The fire department is, quite understandably, too busy to be worried about this leaning tree in our backyard. Mr DDBug thinks it will fall into the neighbor's courtyard, I think it will hit our building...

(That's from my office window on the third floor)

Somebody (an unfamiliar neighbor) rang our bell last night around 9 to ask who owned the red car parked in the back that a tree had just fallen on.

Not us, whew.

The neighbors are outside shaking the snow off their precious apple trees. Proceed with caution...

yeah b/t here and Pullach there are a few trees or parts of trees that have fallen/snapped off. if i could get some place i'd help people shovel their cars- i just need something to do! and no doggies today to take on a walk since they don't come back until tomo. i'm tempted to strap tennis rackets on my feet as snow shoes and go into the woods heheheh (just kidding about the tennis racket bit)

More pics (before and after), my car:

and after

Driving back last night at 3am was fun... I'm just glad the car has 4 wheel drive, otherwise.. it wouldn't have been pleasant. IEverything looked beautiful though; crystallised sugar-topped, lit up by street lights. Here's the view from my windows this morning:

Oooo Lots of snow.. Time for The UrbanAngel to make Snow Angel's
Make sure to post the pix when your done

It has happened about once in the last 30 years to my recollection, but that was in Rosenheim, further south.

I'd disappear into the snow!

I was wondering what the rules are for work - if everything's cancelled then I can't get to work.. am I allowed to stay at home (and not take a holiday for it)?

Our poor bikes are drowning in the courtyard.

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Shit. I'm knackered. But, after two hours shovelling my car is finally free.

According to the news, they are asking people to stay out of the parks now - danger of falling branches and trees.

Snow Angels

The pic shows a look out of my apartment window around noon. Since it stopped snowing for a while now and I had the impression the worst was over, I decided to go for a bit of a drift with my car. Mistake – I didn't even make it properly out of the driveway and it took myself plus 4 (!) neighbours to get the thing back in the garage, after some 15 mins of digging, pushing and shoving.

You wanted to go for a drive in this weather ?!?!? Silly boy. I learned to drive in a blizzard in Wyoming and my car is staying in the garage until this crap is cleared, especially after watching the morons poor souls who can't drive in the winter on Friday...

I have just been to the Munich dog show and had a drive around. I have never seen so many cars that are buried under so much snow. The snowploughs have also pushed snow up to window level on most cars. I saw one couple using childrens sand shovels trying to dig their car out . Best of luck to anyone with a car parked up on the street in Munich!

Was really hard to motivate to get out and clear the car...



But a 45 minute workout later, I can now head off to the mountains first thing tomorrow morning.

Well done, ET...

You may want to lift the windscreen wipers up so that they don't freeze onto the window overnight. Also, covering the window with something means not having scrape the ice off.. gets you off to the mountains faster

Some more photos cross posted from the other TT discussion threads:

Taken by Taurus in Neuhausen:



Taken by Whisky-Emporium of the S2:

This is my favourite weather to go out and have a play in the car!

If only I had one... *sigh*

A selection of the Munich Webcams taken this morning:

Not an earth shattering display of snow depths, but amusing nontheless...

In the Glochenbachviertel somewhere, around 11 PM Sat night.

9.00 a.m.



10.00 a.m.

It's about dog-deep.

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"Damn, I really wanna piss over there."

left my car at the SBahn overnight. not a smart plan:

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I was going to start a new thread along the lines of:

Special Offer from Mercedes Benz - Limited Period Only!!!

Any Colour you like so long as it's WHITE!

So hurry and get yours today!

Anyone fancy an Audi TT 3.2 litre?

My own garden this morning:

And finally:

Mini-me in igloo we built today

Here's the scenic view from my keller spare bedroom

Freising yesterday afternoon.

Better than just firemen! Better than just chainsaws! Firemen with chainsaws!
This is near my flat, the road where I live in Neuhausen was blocked most of Saturday evening due to fallen trees.

that's cute

Cleanup in Marienplatz was impressive!

Road Block... reminds me of a song... who was that again???

Here's an artsy photo from my backyard from yesterday...and it's snowing again at the moment...

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Literally a blanket of snow.

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Traffic hell coming back along the A8 yesterday. 130km took nearly 5 hours.

It wasn't nearly as bad as Munich where I was, but still some pretty hairy driving on country roads.

What I came back to last night after skiing...
And the drive back from Kitzbühl was only 4 hours...

Oh bugger it's started again

God i miss the sun and the beer gardens

Yayyy! Loving the snow.
I miss the sun and beer gardens too, but I needed to see a proper dumping over snow over Munich before the winter was allowed to finish.
This was quite suitable.

It can stay all white and pretty for a little longer, and then summer can roll on in knowing that winter did it's job properly. Good work.

See no animal cruelty here as Spuss the Cat practices in case of avalanche!!!

Try clearing the windows next time, honey.

@keydeck traffic looks like the M25 on a good day

Not sure who they claimed to be called, but it came out originally as a white label and was actually Stock Aitken and Waterman. ** shudder **