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    Snow causes havoc in Romania, Moldova, Albania

    By ALISON MUTLER | Associated Press – Tue, Feb 14, 2012

    BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Snow as deep as 15 feet (4.5 meters) isolated areas of Romania, Moldova and Albania on Tuesday, and helicopters and army trucks were used to deliver food and medicine, and to transport sick people to hospitals.

    In Romania, thousands of coal miners volunteered to donate some of their food to help feed people in isolated areas of their country.

    Officials said five Romanians died in the past 24 hours due to frigid temperatures, bringing the total to 79 weather-related deaths since the nation's cold spell began. Neighboring Moldova also has been hard hit by snow, and both countries have seen schools, borders, highways and train services shut down in some areas as temperatures plunged to -9 Fahrenheit (-23 Celsius) overnight.

    Adrian Vlaicu, a spokesman for the Romanian rail network CFR, said 413 trains have been canceled due to heavy snow on the lines.

    On Tuesday, about 4,000 Romanian coal miners volunteered to buy tins of food from the money the company gives them for hot meals and donate that to the worst-affected victims in eastern Romania.

    In Albania, army trucks and helicopters brought food and medicine to 250,000 people who were isolated in their communities by deep snow, which also was causing power outages and shortages of fodder for cows and sheep on farms.

    The roofs of about two dozen houses, including that of a 300-year-old church in southeastern Albania, collapsed under the weight of the snow, but no injuries were reported.

    On Sunday, Albania declared a state of natural emergency in some of the worst-affected areas.

    Since the end of January, Eastern Europe has been pummeled by a record-breaking cold snap and the heaviest snowfalls in recent memory. Hundreds of people, many of them homeless, have died and tens of thousands of residents have been snowed in across the region.

    But the worst affected areas of Europe are now in Romania, Moldova and Albania.

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    Llazar Semini contributed from Tirana, Albania, and Corneliu Rusnac from Chisinau, Moldova.

     

    10 comments

    • Gabriela
      Gabriela  •  Bucharest, Romania  •  3 mths ago
      to gawd:We ROMANIANS have built and Holocaust Memorial in Bucharest!!!!!, for jews and gypsies!!!!WHERE IS DISCRIMINATION against jews and gypsies in ROMANIA???? I read your comments at all articles about ROMANIA, you will drown in your own hatred.Read historical documents, hypocritical villain! This is as well as the old adage who says: A REPEATED LIES risk of falling, for some, one Truth.LIARS without honour!
      • Tony B
        Tony B 3 mths ago
        Gabriella: Right again.Some people do not know that we are all in the same leaki boat an bailing with a teaspoon in the economical taiphoon.
    • Internal Server Error
      Internal Server Error  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      I lost connection with my 88 year old grandmother weeks ago. My parents try to go see her but there are no open roads. These are tough people, they should be ok, I hope.
    • Claudiu
      Claudiu  •  3 mths ago
      Condolences to the families who have lost loved ones in this terrible winter around Central and Eastern Europe.
      In Romanian:Condoleante familiilor care i-au pierdut pe cei dragi in aceasta iarna cumplita in toata Europa Centrala si de Est.
      PS.I agree with Gabriela, you gawd are a really greedy gypsie idiot.
    • Gabriela
      Gabriela  •  Bucharest, Romania  •  3 mths ago
      gawd, I suppose you are a uneducated russian.you and your friends should go back to the madhouse from where you escaped recently, I saw at CNN.Do not forget to take medication against your stupidity and ignorance!!!Or maybe you escaped from Odessa in 1941 or Sobibor!!!
    • Gabriela
      Gabriela  •  Bucharest, Romania  •  3 mths ago
      You "sir" GAWD are a really uneducated idiot.
    • Trish
      Trish  •  3 mths ago
      Why no foreign aid to these people? They actually need help.
      No oil, no natural gas, no US bases, no economic reasons to help folks who need it.
      Way to go.
    • Mitt da GLASSLOOKER
      Mitt da GLASSLOOKER  •  Bremerton, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      Flooding next....
      • Gabriela
        Gabriela 3 mths ago
        obamabydefault, you are tipical american-I refer especially to the yankees- who think that it can compensate the education with "atitude" and apearence of education.Chek with your school district and find out about first grade enrolement,you might have a chance who knows!!!!!!!!Confederate Generals "Stonewall" Jackson and Lee were right in what it will look at the yankees!
      • Tony B
        Tony B 3 mths ago
        Gabriela: Sock it to him.
    • gAWD
      gAWD  •  3 mths ago
      In Romania poor people' sell their babies for organ spare parts. Romanian hate Gypsies, wish for Gypsy holocaust, but behave exactly as Gypsies. In Romania more and more schools are closing while more and more churches are going up, indication to backwards thinking. It was a mistake for the EU to let in Romania as Romanian government is corrupt and all this ends is Romania scamming the EU. Police in Romania are also corrupt and aligned with organized crime, robbing the small number of tourists that go there. Romania longs for taking control of Maldova, to exploit its agriculture. The world should never forget, Romania wants you to forget, the it side with Nazi Germany in the Jewish genocide. Take that Romania!
    • gAWD
      gAWD  •  3 mths ago
      I once knew a Romanian who told me that he loved Bush because he is killing all the Arabs. He also wished death for all the nations east of Romania. He said liked beating up the Polish guys in the neighborhood with his Italian buddies, but loves to make love to the Polish babes. What an idiot, right?
    • gAWD
      gAWD  •  3 mths ago
      Maldova is a really sheety place.
      Romania is very barbaric with wicked greedy peoples.
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