On Thursday, Düsseldorf has already received a first taste of winter comes next - again, the city lay under a blanket of snow.
At the weekend it could be much worse. The weathermen expect in the Rhineland, with 15-25 inches of fresh snow - or more!
How is the Awista for it?
Express spoke with Dr. Henning Friege by management and winter maintenance team leader Udo Meyer.
EXPRESS: How hard is the job of the winter-workers?
Udo Meyer: Very hard! You have to weather this morning to get two or three clock first ever to work. Then it requires absolute accuracy, to use the litter vehicles - after all, a three meter in front of each blade. In addition, the employee manual was also the snow shovel and grit einsetzen.Warum it on 20 December to the Düsseldorf snow chaos (not cleared, smooth roads)?
Meyer: We were traveling in the night, the employees have demanded almost everything. But the weather conditions are no longer authorized. Because we had some minus twelve degrees, could Abtausalz not act so quickly. First it had to be bogged down by the cars.
Dr. Henning Friege: Announced at that time were three inches of fresh snow. In fact, there were 20, nearly three times as much. As fast as we were behind at all! What happens if there should be 40 centimeters of snow on the weekend?
Friege: Then go in Dusseldorf any more! As the winter is now preparing further?
Friege: We try to, Sogut it goes. Unfortunately, we only know exactly know when the snow is here. But our people give their Bestmögliches.Ihr weather advice to citizens?
Friege: Drive Carefully! We also hope that the residents meet their obligation to grit premises and in front of their houses and to clear the sidewalks.
The winter in continuous use
Every day, 200 employees take care of Awista-winter maintenance so that the roads passable in Düsseldorf.
Per day are distributed manually and with 33 cars scattered about 150 tons of salt (soon grit) on the asphalt.
Because of the nationwide state of emergency is now only salt sprinkled on cluster level 1 (major roads, bridges, dangerous places and on rail transport).
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