Yesterday afternoon I went with some colleagues down to the Pomegranate for a few drinks. It is quite a western enterprise but is situated inside the local village which means that as well as the toilets being frozen and the taps not working, we were also evacuated because of a gas leak. We moved on to King’s Bar (which is owned by one of the teachers at my school) where the toilets were also frozen.
In our compound everything is working (or at least the Chinese version of working) but as I wander through the village and see how frozen everything is I wonder how much of their stuff is still working.
Comments (5)
Did it get this cold where you were in Germany? Or is it more the lack of modern facilities?
I know its a real eye opener when you go out to your car in the morning and the door is frozen shut and you can not open it.
Comment by Dennis — January 16, 2010 @ 2:12 pm
It didn’t get this cold in Dusseldorf.
Comment by Zombie Master — January 16, 2010 @ 4:17 pm
But people have also been saying that it doesn’t normally get this cold in Beijing either. It’s really bloody cold and it started pretty early this year too. It’s unlikely to finish any time soon, but I hope that it might finish early since it started early! We can only live in hope…life will be easier once we’ve got a car too – our entertainment options are pretty limited since it’s too cold to walk anywhere.
Comment by Alex — January 17, 2010 @ 7:37 pm
apparently it is going to reach the positives briefly on Wednesday.
Comment by Zombie Master — January 17, 2010 @ 10:28 pm
Coldest I have seen over here so far was -22F, -25F with wind chill. It’s been a while since it’s been that cold though.
Driving in the snow is a real challenge. I am kind of glad I am not working over the winter months becuase I was being sent to upstate NY 3 days a week towards the end and in some cases I was within a stone throw of Canada. I was worried about driving those areas over winter.
Comment by Dennis — January 18, 2010 @ 8:27 am