As I wrote on Friday, [snow arrived in Frankfurt en masse](/2006/03/03/snowing-like-crazy/) that day. I cursed my bad luck, that I didn’t have a camera with me. In the morning it was snowing quite a lot, but this only increased. We easily had 15-20 centimeters by the late afternoon. Needless to say, few people were able to cope with the weather. Lufthansa alone had to cancel 150 flights. And it took me about two hours to go home.

I left my office at about 16:25. The bus was supposed to arrive at 16:29, but never came. Someone said there had been an accident with it earlier. Several other guys stood there and waited with me, but none of us was really willing to walk through the snow. Finally, at about 16:45, we decided that we might as well go ahead and walk to the next bus stop.

It was not pleasant. Within a few meters the wet snow entered my shoes and my feet were cold and wet. The bridge near our office was quite a sight. The icy, partially frozen snow was so slippery that the trucks and lorries were unable to drive unto the bridge – it was too steep. This also told us what had happened to the bus line. One truck was standing on the onramp of the bridge, and smaller cars tried to pass left of it – until one of them slid against the safety fence. There was no damage, but the car was unable to resume driving.

We continued our walk, until we arrived at the bus stop of the Flight Training Center. A bus just arrived; the rest of the way to Terminal 1 was just as slow as if we had walked, but at least it was warm.

The subways were also late. I finally arrived at home at about 6:40 or so. Freezing like crazy. The snow is still around, some of it anyway. I wonder if there will be more or if the winter is now finally over.