Blizzard

Today it was time for our guests, the three Finnish officers who were on a planning trip, to return to CNL. We had to drive them there ourselves, because the reinforcements that PRT had planned to send us hadn't arrived yet. Except for the nurse, B, of course. It rained all the way to CNL, and the locals looked really miserable in the mud. It was only a couple of degrees above zero, but many of them wore sandals. In CNL I got some more money from the paymaster against the PO receipts, and took care of some other business. On our return trip the rain turned to snow, and the snowfall soon turned into a blizzard. We saw at least five accidents on the road, and some poor guys on motorcycles. When we arrived at the PO, there was already 5 centimetres of snow on the ground. The forecast said that in the next 24 hours we could have up to 40 cm of snow in Aybak. Later in the evening a team that was travelling from Pol-e Khumri to Mazar-e Sharif came to the safe house to seek shelter from the blizzard over night. The evening also brought some very, very bad news.


A Swedish team putting on tire chains with happy faces despite the bad news. Snow can do that.