Posted on 01/08/2022 1:00:21 PM PST by algore
At least 22 people including 10 children have died after a heavy snow storm left an estimated 125,000 cars stranded in a mountain resort town in Pakistan.
Eight of the fatalities were from the family of Islamabad police officer Naveed Iqbal, who died alongside his wife and six children.
Police said most people had frozen to death in their cars but that others may have died from asphyxiation after turning on their vehicle's heaters to keep warm after getting stuck on the road.
More than four feet of snow fell in the hillside town overnight on Friday, trapping tourists and blocking all incoming traffic to Murree, around 70km northeast of the capital Islamabad, the next day.
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said the military had been mobilised to clear roads and rescue thousands still trapped. The Punjab province chief minister's office said the area had been declared a 'disaster area' and urged people to stay away.
Soldiers, including a special military mountain unit, were called in to assist rescue efforts and had freed thousands of vehicles by Saturday morning, though thousands more were still stuck in the area.
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CHILDREN JUST AREN’T GOING TO KNOW WHAT SNOW IS
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/children-just-arent-going-to-know-what-snow-is/news-story/5a16c85680b7cc94f345240a727fb09d
Fake news, the earth is burning up from climate change, snow doesn’t exist anymore
Da Erf Has a Fever!
Snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries … Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community … According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event". "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.
Ow. That happened to a guy on my block when I lived in NYC in the late 1990s, this plow plowed his car in with him in it and I guess it didn’t occur to him that the exhaust would be blocked so he kept the engine running and he ended up meeting Jesus....or Satan, he could have been a democrat.
We had 21” overnight back in 78. It took 5 days to dig out.
That’s a LOT of snow!
Are there one million, two hundred fifty thousand cars in Pakistan?
I'm thinking there are more like seventeen.
That's cold....
Snowmageddon.
And you would be wrong.
Please don't cry. It had to happen at some point and you have had a lovely run of being right.
There are about ten million cars in Pak-ee-stan.
Of course they probably are not all in running condition.
DANG! Those folks need a big dose of GLOBAL WARMING!
I mentioned that to acquaintances after that debacle in Virginia; don’t know how long a battery keeps a car warm if it isn’t a hybrid where a gasoline engine recharges the battery...
an electric car can run seat heaters for weeks, and you could run the main heater for a few minutes each hour for many days depending on the battery charge
Half of them, and they’re all toyota hi-luxes.
CC
We’ll be reading about how many were killed in the flooding that is coming.
That’s interesting; not sure how long that works out in a snowbound car.
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