Last night we had a thunderstorm and it rained very heavily.. This resulted into floods everywhere in Berlin.
In our neighbourhood the Pragerplatz was full of water. The pond wasn’t even to be recognized, all cellars of the houses around the place were full of water. In some of them the water was about 1 meter (39.4 inches) high.
One part of our house cellar got some water as well, and ofcourse it was the part where we temporary store our stuff because of the renovation. So at 11 pm last night we were moving boxes from one side to the other side of the cellar. Fortunately the 2 cellars we normally use were dry. There I stored all my stuff I took with me from Holland.
The damage was not super big, unfortunately a box filled with Ricos records got wet and a box filled with his cd’s. Also some pics of mine got wet…

Written by Liekie @ 12:33:31 am
Tags: Berlin, cellar, storm, weather

The other day Rico and I went to the biggest footballfanparty in Germany (the fanmiles between the Siegesseule and the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin) to watch the game Netherlands vs. Ivory Coast. Silvio (Ricos brother) works there as a security guard so we brought him sandwiches and watched the game at his tower.
Unfortunately due to very bad weather predictions (a summer thunder storm) we had to go home before the end of the game, because it could get dangerous. The big videoscreens were turned of and the organisation feared the towers of the videoscreens could come down in the storm.
We managed to get home at the same time as the storm started. We will try again next Wednesday as Holland plays vs. Argentina…

         

Written by Liekie @ 06:23:43 pm
Tags: Berlin, Holland, Pics, soccer, storm, weather, Worldchamion

Today my sis send me this little movie she made because it’s so cold here in Germany, -14 degrees celsius (6.8 degrees fahrenheit).

Written by Liekie @ 10:08:06 pm
Tags: sister, video, weather

Last Saturday Pugsley was annoying us again by going on and off the balcony leaving the door wide open. It turned out he needed to poo. Since I still didn’t refresh his cat-tray, i decided to take him and the dog Shanny out.
I turned away from pugsley for 10 seconds to see what Shanny was doing. When I turned back I couldn’t see Pugsley anymore. I lookde and called him for over 10 minutes, but no Pugsley.
Then it slipped into my mind I need to go check the old oilcellar of our house. From our garden he can easily enter it by crawling through a log. But once he is in he cannot get out again, it’s too deep.
When I opened the shutter of the oilcellar and called him, he answered my call by miaowing terribly pityfull. As I don’t know this cellar I immidiately went up to get Fresh to get out Pugsley. He told me Pugsley was lying on the floor and asked me to come and take a look. Then pugsley took off and decided to hide below the oilcontainer in a very small opening.
We couldn’t drag him out, as Pugsley exactly fitted in the opening. I was able to stroke him, but that was al, he didn’t want to come out. We triedwith calling him and with food as well, but no success.. So we decided to leave him alone for a while and hoped he would get out when he got hungry.

At the end of the afternoon we tried again. Pugsley looked terrible. His nose all wet and he was drewling and shaking. He really needed to get out before the evening as it was predicted the temperature could go down to at least -10 degrees celsius (14 degrees fahrenheit). So Fresh took a stick and tried to poke him out. But instead of coming out Pugsley went into the middle of the opening. So Fresh started poking on his ass verry brutal, and it helped!! Very slowely, bit by bit Pugsley finally came out. He really looked terrible, full of dust and spiderwebs and he smelled after oil. But most important, he was ok!!!

At home he started eating like nothing had happened, washed a bit of the dirt off and then took a nice sleep…

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Written by Liekie @ 12:05:55 am
Tags: adventure, cat, cellar, weather

Yesterday, when I arrived at work at about 11:30 am I noticed Karin (a very very annoying colleague of mine) was wearing her wintercoat while she was working at her paydesk.
As the heater in the store was fucked up again it was really very cold in the store. But it was not that cold to wear a wintercoat. And by the way, autumn just started just 3 days ago. Who is wearing a wintercoat in such early stage of autumn?
I didn’t get it why our supermarketmanager didn’t say a thing about it. She really looked so stupid! All customers werw wondering what was wrong with her. Or they thought she was about to leave home..
This was just one of her stupid childishtry to get some attention. I mean last year our manager ordered bodywarmers wich fit our uniforms. Why didn’t she put on one of those?

Written by Liekie @ 11:46:13 pm
Tags: colleague, weather, Work