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posted by on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the bone-chilling dept.

The BBC reports:

At least 10 people died of cold in Poland. Night temperatures in Russia plunged to minus 30C.

Normally milder Greece has witnessed temperatures of minus 15C in the north where an Afghan migrant died of cold last week and roads were closed.

In Athens, the temperature failed to rise above 0C and several of the islands were covered in snow.

BBC Weather report about why the cold is so intense.

CBC reports:

The extreme winter weather that has gripped Europe in the past days has caused more than a dozen deaths, left villages cut off, caused power and water outages, frozen rivers and lakes, grounded flights and led to road accidents. Serbia's authorities on Sunday banned river traffic on its stretch of the Danube — one of Europe's main rivers — because of ice and strong wind.

[...] In Italy, eight deaths were blamed on the cold, including a man who died in the basement of an unused building in Milan, and another one on a street flanking Florence's Arno River. [Pope] Francis asked God to "warm our hearts so we'll help" the homeless.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 12 2017, @07:47AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday January 12 2017, @07:47AM (#452872) Journal

    Did it ever occur to you that kissing up to the biggest bully on the playground is a crappy insurance policy?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @01:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @01:33PM (#452929)

    (1) you're right. A bully tried that once on me but I refused.
    (2) Pope Francis didn't ask for us to kiss the big strong bully's ass, but instead to protect the weak and those who are worse off than us.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 12 2017, @09:10PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday January 12 2017, @09:10PM (#453071) Journal

      1) wut

      2) Yes, he did, because he is the Pope. The moral things he's asking are older than the entire Abrahamic corpus, let alone Catholic Christianity which is only about 1690 years old (Council of Nicaea/325 AD). And other religions do it better; I am specifically thinking here of Buddhism.

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