Intense snow storms in Hungary, country-wide Disaster.

[Christo]

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A few days ago, without any warning, intense snow storms hit the Country.
Winds are intense, roads are impossible to take, more than 200.000 people are without electricity, some towns are impossible to reach.

Some people are stuck in the snow for almost 1-2 days now, and the Minister only called out an alarm NOW.
The town where I am is fine, but the one next to me is locked and even the Snow-Clearing vehicles/Buses/Cars are either immobilized or stuck in some pit next to the road.

Here are some pictures.
http://galeria.index.hu/belfold/2013/03/15/az_utakon_rekedt_olvasonk_fotoi/?openwith=4006262

Messages are coming in from people stuck with little 1-4 year old children being stuck for more than 20 hours now, without any sign of help whatsoever. I'm not religious, but these people really need help now, and even the army is mobilizing now with armored vehicles.

Question is, why now? The snow storm hit the country TWO DAYS AGO.

The incompetence of our leadership is just painful, I bet some people died already because of their idiocy.

[Gurnisson]

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A few days ago, without any warning, intense snow storms hit the Country.
Winds are intense, roads are impossible to take, more than 200.000 people are without electricity, some towns are impossible to reach.

Some people are stuck in the snow for almost 1-2 days now, and the Minister only called out an alarm NOW.
The town where I am is fine, but the one next to me is locked and even the Snow-Clearing vehicles/Buses/Cars are either immobilized or stuck in some pit next to the road.

Here are some pictures.
http://galeria.index.hu/belfold/2013/03/15/az_utakon_rekedt_olvasonk_fotoi/?openwith=4006262

Messages are coming in from people stuck with little 1-4 year old children being stuck for more than 20 hours now, without any sign of help whatsoever. I'm not religious, but these people really need help now, and even the army is mobilizing now with armored vehicles.

Question is, why now? The snow storm hit the country TWO DAYS AGO.

The incompetence of our leadership is just painful, I bet some people died already because of their idiocy.

People stuck, no electricity for some, christo still on cRPG forum. visitors can't see pics , please register or login

[Christo]

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Yeah the storm hit other regions heavily, and not mine.

I'm still kickin'.

[[ptx]]

Can i have your looms before it is too late?

[Latvian]

doesnt look that bad

[Sniger]

looks like a standard Danish winter :p

but ye, strange the time of year and all, guess its the last cramp from the winter before spring take over

they have this http://streetconcern.org/ in London and I think its really awesome, it should be worldwide.

[Christo]

Can i have your looms before it is too late?

NEVER! I take them to the grave. 

Also huge respect to those who help, the incompetence of our leadership made the people set up a network of shelters and help eachother using the internet alone. Guys, why do we even need a government? 

Huge respect to everyone that helps the unlucky out there, from farmers to the military, really.

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I hear the ambulance going around like crazy all day.

doesnt look that bad

Sure, it wouldn't have been a problem at all if the Ministry doesn't fuck around and actually does it's job at warning the people early.
And not sending out mass-warning SMS to people about it when it's too late.
Just.. look at this.

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looks like a standard Danish winter :p

but ye, strange the time of year and all, guess its the last cramp from the winter before spring take over

Yup, but this ain't no Latvia or Denmark, lol.
I'm telling you no forecast I've seen told about this, at all. I wonder if the people responsible will take the blame at all or deny it.

[Kafein]

Man whatever this meteorological phenomenon is called, It is HUGE. Such amounts of snow in march is quite unusual, here at least.

[CrazyCracka420]

Too bad Europe doesn't have their version of this guy:

We've had like 3 or 4 reports for Minnesota from him about blizzards, so I'm always prepared for the weather.

[Penitent]

Isn't there a news/weather service that sees these storms coming like a week ahead of time?

Either way...looks like some people will be going HUNGARY for a while if they can't get food!  GET IT?

HUNGARY ATE TURKEY

(this is a popular American grammar-school joke)

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Edit:
I'm sorry for the people in real danger there.  I hope they get help, especially the young children.

[Son Of Odin]

Clearly Hungarians didn't believe what the Starks always say... Simple snow can be pretty devastating to countries that don't have the resources to deal with it...

Winter is coming...

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had to say it .

Let's hope that there's not any casualties even with slow reactions from the authorities...

[Christo]

Official death count is 3 so far.
Who knows how many it'll be, let's hope not more.

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Pic of a stuck Bus
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[Son Of Odin]

Official death count is 3 so far.
Who knows how many it'll be, let's hope not more.

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Pic of a stuck Bus
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Hmm probably those died in traffic accidents... I can only imagine the chaos... I mean here in Finland some people drive like morons even if the weather clearly doesn't allow you to drive faster. They do it anyways and then there is a news title "Weather surprised the drivers". Fucking bullshit, it's slippery and bad visibility at the same time of the year every year! I believe it more easily if that's said in Hungary tho...

[Christo]

Yes, that's what happened.

The roads were/maybe still are completely icy out there.

And -15celsius cold night is coming. Geez.

So many pictures. Here's one pic of Tanks moving in for the rescue.

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[Latvian]

Yes, that's what happened.

The roads were/maybe still are completely icy out there.

And -15celsius cold night is coming. Geez.

So many pictures. Here's one pic of Tanks moving in for the rescue.

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-20 something  cold nights here, no snowstorms though