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    Severe frost paralyzes Danube shipping

    By VESELIN TOSHKOV | Associated Press – Wed, Feb 8, 2012

    SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria and Romania are suspending all shipping on the Danube River due to severe frost and the vast amount of ice blocking the heavily traveled waterway, Bulgaria's Transport Ministry said Wednesday.

    Authorities say up to 90 percent of the river surface is covered with floating ice, making it extremely difficult to traverse Europe's main commercial waterway, which winds 2,860-kilometer (1,777-mile) from Germany and serves as the natural border between Bulgaria and Romania.

    Europeans across the continent have been battling a deep freeze that started in late January and has killed hundreds, trapped thousands behind snow in Balkan mountain villages and prompted worries of flooding as heavy snow melts. In Greece and Bulgaria, flooding on Monday and Tuesday left dozens of homes under water and at least eight dead.

    Romania and Bulgaria's decision come the day after Serbian emergency officials said the country's army will use explosives to break up ice on the Danube and Ibar rivers to try to prevent the possibility of flooding.

    Elsewhere, strong wind knocked over power lines and left tens of thousands without electricity in Bosnia, potentially for the next several days.

    Half of the town of Mostar, Bosnia's second largest city, is without power and snow piled some 2 1/2 feet (80 centimeters) is preventing teams from dealing with the problem, government spokesman Pero Pavlovic said.

    People in Mostar fell into a "shopping hysteria", emptying shelves and in some cases getting into fist fights over flour, he said.

    The Polish Interior Ministry said Wednesday that six more people died as a result of the freezing weather. It also called on people be careful when using coal heaters, reporting that one person died of asphyxiation. The temperatures in the country fell at times to minus 32 C (minus 26 F).

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    Associated Press writers Aida Cerkez in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Poland, contributed to this report.

     

    6 comments

    • NEO
      NEO  •  3 mths ago
      Severe weather pattern changes everywhere. From sever cold to extreme heat. And it will only get worse as time goes on. Way worse. As the earth settles into new patterns. Growing seasons will change as well. Time frames, areas of growth, etc.
    • Nigel
      Nigel  •  3 mths ago
      "Nothing to see here. No climate change. This is normal. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat."
      Right, Cons?
      • pierreb
        pierreb 3 mths ago
        this is climate change. you cannot see it.Really!
      • Russ
        Russ 3 mths ago
        oops! We meant global cooling! All the experts agree!
      • David P
        David P 3 mths ago
        Yes I blame conservatives for this cold weather. If only we would elect leftists to make our world a utopia
    • larryt
      larryt  •  Tyler, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      the furnace in japan is still stoking the weather, at ten thousand times hotter than the suface of the sun going straight up into the statasphere pushing warm air down on the u.s. and the cold air following it up in europe. no we dont have any weather problems just people problems . they were supposed to stop up that hole a year ago. another lie. larry
    • gadfly05
      gadfly05  •  3 mths ago
      In other news, members of the AGW cabal waded through stacks of frozen European bodies to announce that this January was the 4th warmest on record.
    • Otto Pilot
      Otto Pilot  •  Spring Branch, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      But on the plus side, ice skating is way up!
    • DonC
      DonC  •  3 mths ago
      People in Mostar fell into a "shopping hysteria", emptying shelves and in some cases getting into fist fights over flour, he said.

      Sounds like grocery stores here when they predict 1/2" of snow.
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