Schools, hospitals and care homes are among the tens of thousands of properties which were affected in south-west Berlin.<\/p>\n
In Berlin’s Steglitz-Zehlendorf district, on Mexikoplatz, a police van drove around announcing the imminent return of power over a tannoy.<\/p>\n
Residents regularly approached a group of emergency service workers for the latest information.<\/p>\n
Lena said her family had felt “lost” – relying on a battery-powered radio for updates.<\/p>\n
They have been cooking on a camping stove at home while trying to make sure their water pipes don’t freeze.<\/p>\n
Reinhold, 79, was still without power on Wednesday morning and going to his daughter’s house to get warm.<\/p>\n
“But I always came back to sleep here even in the cold weather with a bobble hat on and sweater and a woollen blanket.”<\/p>\n
The retired architect said that he was used to hardship having been born in post-war Germany.<\/p>\n
“I was born in 1947. When my mother and I came from the hospital… it was -20C in our shack.”<\/p>\n
“My parents took turns every hour to see whether my hands were tucked in under the cover so my fingers wouldn’t freeze off.”<\/p>\n
Restoring electricity is happening on a “step-by-step basis,” said fire service spokesman Adrian Wentzel.<\/p>\n
Resources have been pulled in from across Germany, he told me, with an estimated 100,000 people affected.<\/p>\n
Hospitals have had to rely on emergency generators while some schools have had to close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schools, hospitals and care homes are among the tens of thousands of properties which were affected in south-west…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-357509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}