Posted on 01/08/2010 7:09:24 PM PST by justa-hairyape
Europeans in the grip of one of the toughest cold snaps in decades are worried about freezing to death in their unequipped homes, as much of the continent continues to experience a Canadian-style deep freeze.
Polar wind is sweeping across Europe, from Spain to Sweden, but people in the U.K. are in panic mode as temperatures plummet to -22 degrees Celsius. It's just five degrees shy of a record set in northern Scotland in 1982.
The government has ordered manufacturers and other corporations to stop using natural gas so that there will be enough to heat homes.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told citizens they should keep as warm as possible.
The roads are treacherous because municipalities have already run out of the salt that was supposed to last them the entire winter.
Officials are being left to pick and choose which roads will be cleared and which will be left frozen. It's left a slippery mess for cars and pedestrians to struggle through.
Parts of the Netherlands have already run out of salt, and workers were seen Friday shovelling scented bath salts onto roads in efforts to clear ice.
Some parts of rural Britain saw so much snow, they have been cut off from supplies and their animals are freezing to death because they are used to mild winters -- or suffocating to death because of roofs that collapse under the weight of snow.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctv.ca ...
That is what I need. A bug out vehicle for when the food riots begin.
"I would like to make a collect call to Al Gore located in Tennessee USA."
Just remember those jolly old days of Dickens, where one toiled in the accounting office, frost on the window panes, Bob Cratchet blowing on his turgid fingers and hoping Uncle Ebeneezer wouldn't begrudge a lump of coal in the iron stove. That's the spirit. Your government wouldn't have you in discomfort if it wasn't for the consensus on evil man's CO2 output.
On an even cheerier note, has Prince Charles converted to Islam yet?
It’s the answer to a jeopardy question:
The result when entire cultures believe that centrally planned governments will always take care of them.
Really, where is that Captain Obvious graphic?
>>On an even cheerier note, has Prince Charles converted to Islam yet?<<
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Give the guy a break, we put one in the WH.
“If it wasn’t for Global Warming, they would all freeze to death.”
Good point, if we had ratified and then implemented Kyoto, Europe would be in an ICE AGE right now. The Republican Senate saved them.
Aw... too bad. :-)
If that were true Americans would be screwed.
I didn’t vote for this crap.
Will that cover the smell of urine?
Didn’t people die in a heat wave a few years back ... in August? What are their homes like!
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France in 2003 , 15,000 dead from summer heat ... http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2003-09-25-france-heat_x.htm
Would be?
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