Mostly images from Tehran.
Posted on 01/09/2008 8:04:47 PM PST by jiggyboy
At least 28 people are reported to have died in Iran's heaviest snowfall in recent years.
Eight people froze to death as severe blizzards left 40,000 people stranded in their cars, authorities said.
Although most have now been rescued, another 20 people are reported to have died in car crashes caused by the weather, officials said.
Tehran has declared two days of national holiday, urging people to stay at home to avoid the bitter cold.
The temperature has been down as low as -24 degrees Celsius, and for the first time in living memory there has been snow in the country's southern deserts.
Gas shortage fears
There are now concerns the severe temperatures may lead to a major shortage of gas used to heat many homes, reports the BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran.
Tehran's new international airport has re-opened but the situation remains chaotic.
It is taking around five hours to get passengers from their planes out to their cars, our correspondent says.
I wonder how much snow they got. I remember last year when London got one inch the BBC called it a “blizzard”.
Sounds like it’s a cold day in hell.
Mostly images from Tehran.
If the jackasses who run that country spent a little more time building the wealth and infrastructure of the country instead of burying adulterous women up to their waists and stoning them or baiting the USA into punching them in the mouth, perhaps something as basic as heating homes would not be an issue.
Idiots.
Don’t worry, John McCain will save us.
According to the best scientific predictions, it is going to be....
Colder in some places, and warmer in others than it normally is.
Wetter in some, drier in others.
Days will get longer during the summer, shorter during the winter.
Ice will melt in some places, while water will freeze in others.
And that is guaranteed.
Allah wills it. It must be.
22 inches in northern and central Iran.
Tehran.
Use the copy-paste for comments on China.
It’s a communist country - it’s what they do.
You get the point...:)
Forgive my not knowing the finer points of this rich cultural ritual practiced by the Islamofascists.
The kids got to go out and make snow devils in the shape of George Bush, it was great!
I guess if you take into account the Chinese downing of our P3 flying in international airspace, then, yeah. They have been baiting us as well.
It was probably the Navy's Towed Weather Device (TWD) thats being used in the Gulf of Hormuz.
They’d have to care about the people first
Are you guys on the right thread?
For when the snow really gets bad!
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