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Corona prevents winter joys in the Eifel
Winter landscape in the Eifel – but winter sports are not allowed. The slopes are closed due to the corona. The public order office here in Hellenthal in the Euskirchen district keeps a close eye on the streets and paths, including its director Michael Huppertz. “Today the goal is again to keep the traffic going, to keep the parking spaces, which are also closed, free and ultimately to secure escape routes. Yesterday we also had to close the forest areas here. The snow loads the trees very heavily. We have enormous ones Snow loads and the risk of snow breakage is what the expert calls it. And if you go into the forest, a branch can unexpectedly break and a whole tree overturn. Open slopes would create the wrong incentive. The closure allows the remaining traffic to be directed. “We appealed intensely, the appeals of last week actually didn’t work, on the contrary, so more and more people came, so we decided on Monday to block everything. My feeling today is really, very relaxed. As you can see, there is almost no car here, that is normal traffic as always here. It is now almost eleven o’clock. I do not expect many people to come and have heeded this appeal, be sensible and at home and maybe at a later point in time come back. ” When this time will come here in the Eifel remains to be seen.
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The ski and toboggan runs in Hellenthal were closed to keep crowds away.
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