emergency situation

[lisa_thecat]

After 5 days, finally, in my county the authorities declared 'emergency situation'. 40000 people are still snowed in and now all the resources are mobilized into helping them. At least that's what they say...

This vid shows how things are in these villages that are isolated.

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[morethan_less]

I can't see the video for some reason :(

[lisa_thecat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qvdy0M8kxqc - maybe this link works. There is a problem with embedding. I have tried another vid first and I couldn't see it...

[morethan_less]

Thank you, it works.

I watched with my mouth agape. Those poor people. It's unbelievable. My mother watched it with me and said we had similar situation in Poland too, in 78-79' . The so-called winter of the century. I haven't seen anything like this myself though.

Good that somebody finally helped those villagers. I can't begin to imagine what would have happen to them otherwise.

And what's the situation in your town?

It's ironic, how everyone have been complaining about lack of winter and snow, and then it changed in the blink of an eye. The nature decided to kick our asses.

[lisa_thecat]

I have never seen anything like this either. In my town things are much much better than this. I am glad things finally started to move, but that fact that this is only after 5-6 days is very worrisome.

I'm one of the people who complained about lack of winter. These last years the winters have been very warm and almost completely snowless. But look what mother nature had in store for us....

[naked_runner]

They showed this video today in the news here. Poor people.

[lisa_thecat]

I have tried several videos, I but I could only embed this one. 90% of the videos were from Buzau, because it was easier for the Bucharest tv crews to make it there than to Vrancea. But the situation was the same here. I have talked to the girls who work at my firm and come from around town (they only made it to work on Friday) and they said the same thing: no power, tunnels, snow as big as the house... In fact there were more people stranded in Vrancea than in Buzau. Not that there's a contest of any kind. I am glad they got help - not all of them. Some villages are still snowed in. Like Ciorasti, where the parents of my colleague live. After finishing the wood for fire that they have put closer to the house, her mother laid a ladder on top of the snow and crawled on top of it to get to the annex where they kept most of the fire wood. She managed to open the door and she threw individual logs over the snow mountain for her husband to catch. This kind of thing.

[starlite_gone]

Holy crap!! You literally meant they were snowed in! My god I don't think I've ever seen that much snow in an actual village or town O_O Usually I think of that sort of thing happening in a really remote area on a mountain to maybe one cabin.

How did the people get out who are helping? They must have come from other villages? What are those people doing inside the houses who are snowed in? What if they didn't have enough food or water? Do they still have electricity and heat and water and all that or did the snow shut down those systems? What are they saying in this video btw? (The funny thing is the only words I could catch were basically 'police' and 'ambulance' and I think one other word)

So many questions, sorry... but I'm astounded by the amount of snow O__O I really hope everyone is alright

[lisa_thecat]

The first rescuers were younger, stronger people from the same villages who managed to get out, make a tunnel for themselves and tried to help their relatives. Where they couldn't make it - some houses were more snowed in than other houses - the police and the gendarmes and the SMURD (emergency operators: doctors and firemen) came to help, but 3 days later, when they could reach the respective villages. These people haven't had power since Monday and if they didn't have wood for fire, water and food in their homes, they couldn't get out to get it. There are people who have died in their own bed. Their relatives stayed with them in the house, because they couldn't get them out to be buried - not to mention how hard burying someone is in such weather

[starlite_gone]

That's horrible! I feel so sorry for all of those who lost their lives or loved ones! How is the progress going now with getting people out of their houses? Is there any way for them to lower food or at least water down chimneys or something for places where they can't immediately make a tunnel?

I can't imagine what is the worst part for the people holed up like that... but not having water is devastating. At least humans can live without food for several days, of course depending on their health, but water... especially for older people... man. And then on top of that the cold...

[hannelore_k]

I don't think I've ever seen that much snow. It's up to the rooftops! That must be a very scary situation!