Somebody Dropped the Ball

Two weeks before we came on this trip Eastern Europe had suffered a devastating cold snap where temperatures slipped below 0 degrees Fahrenheit for days. Close to one hundred people died as a result. Yet the whole five days we were in Germany and Austria no one had really referred to those difficult days. However, we had seen evidence ourselves as to just how cold things had been when we got to the Konigsee the day before and had seen a deep mountain lake that "never freezes" totally frozen. I should've realized that the much shallower Chiemsee would probably suffer the same fate. Sure enough, when we reached the town of Prien on the shores of the lake, most of the boats had been taken out of the water and the two tour ships were tied-up and frozen at the docks. There was absolutely no evidence of the boats running now or at any recent time.