Posted on 12/21/2009 3:24:28 PM PST by Clive
PARIS -- The death toll from winter storms across Europe rose to at least 80 on Monday as transport chaos spread amid mounting anger over the three-day failure of Eurostar high-speed trains.
With tens of thousands stranded by the cancellation of London-to-Paris trains and hundreds of flights across the continent, new accidents and mass power cuts added to the big freeze tumult.
A car veered off an icy road and knocked concrete onto rails, derailing a Paris commuter train and injuring 36 people, police said. Three hundred people had to be evacuated from the train.
Another train in the Croatian capital Zagreb hit a buffer injuring 52 people.
Croatian investigators blamed the minus 17 degrees Celsius temperatures for a brake failure, national television reported. European temperatures as low as minus 33.6 degrees Celsius have been recorded in Bavaria.
In Poland, authorities said 42 people, many of them homeless, had died of cold over three days after temperatures plunged to minus 20 degrees Celsius.
Ukraine reported 27 deaths while six people were killed in accidents in Germany and three in Austria.
France has reported at least two deaths of homeless people, and the national power company briefly cut electricity to two million people on Monday saying it was necessary to avoid an even bigger blackout amid surging demand.
More flights were cancelled in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain and main highways were blocked across Europe where some regions had more than 50 centimetres of snow.
The breakdown of the Eurostar service under the Channel, linking London with Paris and Brussels, has symbolised Europe's suffering.
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Title is wrong, they will correct it soon.
Correct title is AGW kills 80 people across Europe.
Calling al-Gorabi! Your global warming isn’t working.
....Mean while during the same period 850 people died of hiccups in the same region....
When you mock God and believe you can control the weather, this is what happens.
I guess the EU taxes aren’t high enough... and they need more restrictions on activities that might cause global warming.
Blast this infernal global warming!
Global warming saves lives! Now we have proof!
Prayers for those who lost their lives. And scorn for the global warming climate change money seeking crowd!
And since the dems, obama, gore, and the rest of the nuts who warship at the global warming climate change church and scream at the rest of us that C02 causes global warming, then this unfortunate circumstance means I get to scream at them and insinuate that their working to decrease C02 may very well have caused these deaths! So there! global warming nut crowd, stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
Climategate Fraud: |
The Truth*: |
Hey, the bad weather has killed more than global warming...
I can’t take much more of this Global Warming! /sarc
You are absolutely correct. Those who think He will not take a stand on this lunacy will be abruptly awakened.
they died from something they don't believe in, global cooling...
This is really bad news: all those freezing temperatures are going to melt the ice.
By this time next year, the poles will look like the tropics!
Yes.
Europe is brrrrrrrurning up.
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