During the winter months- it usually a lot drier than normal and not as cold- almost like spring. Don’t see much snow up here anymore. When and if it does snow- it normally snows in the summer. Europe is generally much wetter and cooler in the summer. The snow doesn’t last long at all. Its normally quite windy as well.
Sometimes is gets dangerous and we have to evacuate when the flooding gets bad. One minute it’ll be bone dry and the next you’ll have water up to your knees. Doesn’t really get cold anymore over here- but you should see other places around the world- its like the ice age. The place used to be covered in snow- top to bottom. Now we'd be surprised even in the snowline even reaches a quarter way up the slope.
If you have a close look around, you notice that most of the houses around here are empty. Most of the people moved away when the old resort shut down. They said they lost their lives in more ways than one and that it wouldn’t ever be the same again. So, anyway, because they aint a lot of people here anymore, they don’t use the dams anymore- they reckon it cost more to uses those then it does to use our generators. They don’t care. They just chew everything thing up and then move on when its all gone.
Its kind of funny- there used to be about 50 stores in this small village. Now there’s only five. Just the supply store and a few other dumps. Most people here are self employed- were not big enough to employ people.
Sometimes we get the occasional half empty coach to come and visit us- they don’t stay for long though. They don’t like it here when they come to visit. They have a brisk walk around and then go- don’t even have lunch here- its like a ghost town. To get back to the coach the people go to trek about a mile down the road as its been covered over by huge rock falls that happened a few years ago.
We don’t really leave this place anymore – its our home. But, when we do- we often walk down to lower land where we can catch a ride or we get the chopper to come and pick us up.
The tourists have all moved on to bigger and better places- they often go to the U.S.A. or some other artic holiday place.
We don’t have much of a life anymore- our small village. Everyone knows each other here. We usually all just meet up where the old resort used to be and spend our days going for walk, playing silly games or just sitting around having a laugh. Sometimes I think that the world just forgot about us. Its not a nice feeling after we let them into lived hoping that it would be for the best- but they just stabbed us in the back. They just used and abused us from day one.
