European cold snap kills at least 36


Weather | 208362 hits | Jan 30 4:28 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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Heavy snow and a severe cold snap killed at least 36 people across eastern Europe and many areas were under emergency measures as schools closed down, roads became impassible and power supplies were cut off.

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  1. by avatar martin14
    Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:34 am
    hope PF is ok...

  2. by jeff744
    Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:41 am
    Wait.....-20 and people are dying? I think that is a sign you need to fix some infrastructure.

  3. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:41 am
    As long as he's not a drinker and passes out in the cold, which seems fairly common amongst the easterners

    "jeff744" said
    Wait.....-20 and people are dying? I think that is a sign you need to fix some infrastructure.
    People die from hypothermia here when the temps drop below +10C

  4. by avatar martin14
    Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:44 am
    "jeff744" said
    Wait.....-20 and people are dying? I think that is a sign you need to fix some infrastructure.



    Yeah they have so much money to just burn over there.


    :roll:

  5. by avatar Hyack
    Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:58 am
    "martin14" said
    Wait.....-20 and people are dying? I think that is a sign you need to fix some infrastructure.



    Yeah they have so much money to just burn over there.


    :roll:

    Seems it works here also...... 8O


  6. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:11 am
    Danged global warming!

  7. by avatar EyeBrock
    Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:12 am
    When I was in Manchester, -2C would freeze a brace of Grannies a night. Poor insulation and crappily built houses.

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:56 pm
    "martin14" said
    hope PF is ok...


    +1 on that. We just got over a snap of -30s, but we expect it.

  9. by avatar Brenda
    Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:07 pm
    "martin14" said
    hope PF is ok...

    Same here.

    People die of this every year. As they do in summer when it gets too hot.

    As for "fixing the infra-structure"... Maybe start in your own country. When we don't have power outages anymore in Canada because of the weather, then you can come back.

  10. by avatar martin14
    Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:29 pm
    It's up to 80 dead now...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16830034

  11. by avatar PublicAnimalNo9
    Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:02 pm
    School closures were reported in northern Greece, where temperatures of -16C (3F) were recorded.
    8O

    Snowfalls were recorded as far south as southern Italy and Corsica, where at least 20cm of snow covered the centre of the Mediterranean island.
    8O

  12. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:19 pm
    "martin14" said
    It's up to 80 dead now...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16830034


    What is telling is that this is being reported at all. In Soviet times people died from the cold, too. It's just that it didn't get reported.



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