How's that global warming working out for you
From
Yahoo/AFP:
Hungary orders Danube closed amid big freeze
Hungary closed the Danube to river traffic Friday due to thick ice, bringing shipping to a near standstill on Europe's busiest waterway, as the continent's cold snap death toll passed 540.
"Shipping was ordered stopped overnight Thursday to Friday because of conditions created by icing along the Hungarian part of the river," Istvan Lang, who heads the national technical supervisory body OMIT said.
"All ships still underway must immediately head for the closest harbour," Lang, quoted by MTI news agency, said.
Hungary's navy had to send its biggest icebreaker, the Szechenyi, to try to ram through the frozen river at Budapest.
"I've not seen so much ice on the Danube since 1985," said its captain, Dezso Kovacs.
The freeze had already forced other countries along the Danube, including Austria, Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria, to suspend river traffic.
The 2,860-kilometre (1,780-mile) river, which flows through 10 countries and is vital for transport, power, irrigation, industry and fishing, was nearly wholly blocked, from Austria to its mouth on the Black Sea.
Why do some people wring their hands over a possible 10�F increase in temperatures when a 10�F decrease proves to be so fatal. And of course, moving from hydrocarbon and nuclear power sources to "green (spit) renewable" sources has made things so much better:
Serbia's government reduced power supplies to 2,000 companies it said were not vital to everyday life and appealed to consumers to cut energy use by 10 percent.
But consumption hit 162.67 million kWh per day -- which local media said was around 10 percent more than the same period last year.
When will people wake up...
Posted by DaveH at February 10, 2012 2:21 PM