helicoptors needed - Hundreds of cars are blocked by snow storm

[ensho]

http://unian.net/eng/news/news-352675.html


Hundreds of cars are blocked between Kherson and Mykolaiv


Lawmakers call upon the Emergency Ministry to apply every effort in order to save people in cars at roads blocked with snow.

According to an UNIAN correspondent, lawmaker from the Party of Regions Oleksandr Efremov said that hundreds of cars and a lot of people are blocked in snowdrifts between Kherson and Mykolaiv.

O. Efremov called upon the Emergency Ministry to address to regiment of the United Nations Organization with a request to bring into play helicopters in order to save the people.

He also noted that it is necessary to use all forces and means of the Emergency Ministry in order to save people from the snow trap.
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climate change is so much fun (bigger, stronger, more, storms)

is this the first time the UN was called on to save people in a snow storm? I wonder.

[ORDagnabbit]

1. what country?

[ensho]

2. Ukraine

nt

[FarCenter]

3. It is less than 50 miles of road. Helicopters?

[ensho]

4. they got an abnormal amount of show - people in cars are dying

nobody can get in or out

[thenooch]

5. have they none of these?

[Ikonoklast]

6. No. That's the point.

You know, even in this country where we have plenty of snow removal equipment, even Interstate highways get closed because the snow falls quicker than it can be removed.


Like I-80 in Iowa, last week.

And Nebraska.