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Watch out for Ice Dams in Winter
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  • antistar
  • By antistar on March 22, 2006
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  • Ice Fall Warning Markers - Graz
    Ice Fall Warning Markers
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    Graz either had a problem with ice dams when I visited, or it took the problem very seriously, because there were warning markers all over the city, and people on roofs clearing off the snow and ice. An ice dam, if you are from a sunny country and haven't seen one before, is a block of frozen snow that form on the roofs of buildings during winter. They can sometimes break off suddenly and collapse onto unsuspecting pedestrians below. Obviously that can be very dangerous.

    When there is a risk of ice dams falling to the ground, you will see these red and white markers leaning up against the walls. Also watch out for people standing and staring up at the roofs, as these maybe look-outs for roof clearers above. If they are looking up, that means that there is something definitely coming down!

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    Safe, like all cities in Austria.
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  • By antistar on March 22, 2006
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  • Graz felt like a very safe city. The only thing that bothered me about the place was the density of beggars, all of whom were genuflecting in the most painful position, in the freezing snow and ice and at all hours of the day. It was just how Linz was when I visited a couple of years previously. It's not just that I felt bad that I couldn't give money to them all, after all I felt they must be pretty earnest to be suffering so much, but because the city wasn't doing anything about it. Surely a city as rich as Graz obviously is could put these people in a warm room and feed them.

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    Clock tower hands
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  • By stiriano on June 12, 2004
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  • Clock tower - Graz - Graz
    Clock tower - Graz
    by stiriano
    Notice that the hour and minute hands are switched: the large hand is displaying the hour and the small hand the minutes!

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    Last Sunday Train
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  • Imbi
  • Updated By Imbi on December 23, 2002
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  • Graz Warnings or Dangers
    by Imbi
    I have been told that the last train leaves for airport is around 2.08 pm on Sundays. So if you are catching a late afternoon flight. Don’t miss this train.

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    Safety (A happy story)
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  • orlikins
  • By orlikins on September 13, 2002
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  • Not so much as a warning, but a happy story.

    When I arrived in Graz train station on a Saturday afternoon in late February 1999, I was picked up by my new landlord to take me to the apartment. I, in all the excitement and confusion, left my handbag at the door of the main station with all my money, wallet, passport, id and walkman inside! Very stupid of me, I know. I didnt realise I had left it behind until I got to the apartment and started to take my things out of the car. Ice-cold fear clutched my heart when I realised that I left my handbag in the station. My landlord drove me back to the station and my bag was still there where I left and everything was still inside!!!

    Thats how safe it is.

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    Hum... :)
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  • polardabar
  • Updated By polardabar on September 26, 2005
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  • No waay I'm gonna comment this 1! :) - Graz
    No waay I'm gonna comment
    this 1! :)
    by polardabar
    I decided to put this photo here - under Warnings and Dangers - because that's where it belongs! ;) To explain myself...

    We went to a trip to Eggenberg Schloss, which I really liked, so I started taking tons of photos - just like Japanese people do... :) Anyway, out of my mind, I stared at the Sun & clicked my camera & this is what came out.

    Girls from TSC, this is especially [and exclusively] for you! ;)

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    Its Actually Really Safe
  • Updated By PhilC2 on December 18, 2006
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  • I just thought that i'd say that I can't for the life of me think of any dangers in this town. The town was very refined with no real trouble at all. The only hint was when I staggered out the 3 Monkeys to withdraw some more lagerbeer tokens from a cashpoint (which was miles away).
    I entered the bank to be met by some Austrian fellow who seemed pretty tanked up as well but harmlessly slouched by the cashpoint. I greeted him and tried to get some money out but with some difficulty. After a while about 5 Austrian guys came in all suited & booted with bow ties and waited behind me. The drunk bloke disappeared from view and before I knew it they were all rolling around on the bank floor. I don't know what started it but I would say that it wasn't a proper fight with heads & fists but just a lot of shouting, posturing & pushing. I think the drunk guy might have done something because the others didn't look the type.
    In the end they all ran out to leave me to fathom out the cash point on my own. By the time I got back to the 3 Monkeys my brother and our mates had gone. Cheers guys. At the time & looking back, I found the cashpoint thing really quite amusing.

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    It's a rich man's world!!
    Boniek
  • Updated By Boniek on January 10, 2006
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  • I've been to Graz 3 times and it's not a dangerous city at all. I've not had one bit of trouble of any kind so the only warning I'd give is bring a fat wallet and gold credit cards as it's not a very cheap city.

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    On your own
    orlikins
  • By orlikins on May 23, 2003
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  • Top of Leopoldstr. was a place I didnt like to be on my own at night. There were often guys just hanging about and if i did have to walk by that way, they'd shout out at me, which was uncomfortable. A couple of friends of mine experienced the same thing.

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