[Newsbot]

Title: European cold snap kills at least 36
Category: Weather
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2012-01-30 16:28:29

[martin14]

hope PF is ok...

[jeff744]

Wait.....-20 and people are dying? I think that is a sign you need to fix some infrastructure.

[ShepherdsDog]

As long as he's not a drinker and passes out in the cold, which seems fairly common amongst the easterners

jeff744 wrote:

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

[martin14]

jeff744 wrote:

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.

[Hyack]

martin14 wrote:

jeff744 wrote:

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.

Seems it works here also......

http://www.thestar.com/sports/article/1117128--snowshoer-lost-on-mount-rainier-during-a-blizzard-burned-money-to-keep-warm

[BartSimpson]

Danged global warming!

[EyeBrock]

When I was in Manchester, -2C would freeze a brace of Grannies a night. Poor insulation and crappily built houses.

[DrCaleb]

martin14 wrote:

hope PF is ok...

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

[Brenda]

martin14 wrote:

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.

[martin14]

It's up to 80 dead now...

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

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Quote:

School closures were reported in northern Greece, where temperatures of -16C (3F) were recorded.

Quote:

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

[BartSimpson]

martin14 wrote:

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.