Earth Changes
Put on your coat and hat and get under a blanket and wait to pass this evil, say angry residents of Majdanpeka. At night it is very cold.
The city is bound by snow and ice, without electricity, water and heating, and the torture is far from over. The fourth attempt to connect pokidna transmission network, this afternoon failed. It's agony.
Business is great, joked a shop owner: he has sold burners for gas. These gadgets over the past two days in Majdanpeku have become worth gold, because it is only on them that food can be prepared.
To make matters even worse, in this city of skyscrapers, the architects omitted chimneys, says Mirko Kobe. He lives in in the center of town with his wife and two sons, one of whom is chronically ill and requires constant care.
He adds that heating is only available in the hospital, which has a generator. "The hospital only has heating, and has currently one baby who was born on Monday night and 26 patients, of which I think are two pregnant women.
A different resident, Milan, says that the transmission lines that have fallen were wrapped in ice 4-centimeters thick. Workers cut branches that have fallen around power lines, and progress is slow. More bizarre is that no one has physically visited the power plant, it is controlled by a computer in Belgrade.
The situation is cataclysmic, explains Milan. It's freezing cold. The home is cooler than outside! People are very angry, enraged, angry... Everything is extremely difficult, residents are outraged, helpless!
Thanks to Nevsky for these links
Comment: A map of locations for many of the early and extreme cold weather events for the past month, is shown below -
Reader Comments
I don't mean to belittle the suffering of those affected, but 48 hrs seems quite trivial for people to be having a "mental break" from lack of electricity or water....
I used to work with GPC for 15 yrs (one of the top US electric providers) Other electric companies try to model their procedures and maintenance policies after GPC because we had one of the most reliable systems in N America...
The only reason I mention this is because, even being in the Deep South US and having one of the nations best service records (and NOT being used to heavy snow/winter) it is not unusual to be w/o power for 2-5 days on a moderate winter storm...
Last yr in the GA ice storm many were out of power for 10 days...
During the "Storm of the Century" (blizzard 13 March 1993) many people were w/o power for up to 6 weeks.... Keep in mind that this was in a region that is used to severe winters....
Even 5-6 weeks w/o power MOST of the people were still understanding and level headed about the situation....
Maybe the Serbs are cracking under minimal pressure?!? If so, what will the world look like if/when we have a major "grid down" situation?!??
Best wishes and prayers to our Serbian brothers and sisters... Stay strong and focus on helping each other
These articles you've been posting only tell half the story. Here are some others you should add to illustrate that our climate has gone off the rails.
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Australia has hottest spring on record as temperatures soar – Australian Open changes 2015 heat policy to avert ‘inhumane’ conditions for players
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São Paulo taps emergency water reserves which may last for two months – ‘If it doesn’t rain, we won’t have an alternative but to get water from the mud’
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Warm Arctic Winds Rip Polar Vortex in Half, Blast East Face of Greenland Ice Sheet
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Hotter, weirder: How climate has changed Earth – ‘We are rapidly remaking the planet and beginning to suffer the consequences’
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As climate warms, more outbreaks of disease for sea life – ‘A warmer world is a sicker world’
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NASA: Antarctic ice loss triples in a decade
Thanks for your continuing great work documenting our broken earth climate system
If they had natural gas this would not have happened.