Thursday, February 21, 2008

Crazy winter

The winter has already arrived. This sentence meant, in the past years, beautiful white snowflakes falling from the sky, frozen lakes full of ice skating people and a lot of winter fun. But as the global threats get more serious, the seasons start to go crazy. The summer time was incredibly hot and now the winter changes the land into the north pole. Someone could say: "It can't be that bad?!", but the Americans know better. The United States of America have been surprised by a sudden snow storm this week. Especially the central states like Oklahoma or Kansas were struck very heavily. It let almost 500 000 homes and businesses without power when it took down power lines, trees and made the road impassable. Therefore many emergency shelters of the Red Cross have already been filled with people who couldn't stand the lack of power. In other states the problems have not been that bad, but still a big part of schools canceled their classes and the snow caused a lot of traffic jams. But the worst is not over. The weather specialists forecast another cold blast for Friday. One hit after another. The recovery time was not enough to overcome the difficulties from the first storm and here comes the other. As a consequence the region is preparing them selfs, since they don't want the situation to get completely out of their hands. "We get crews out around three in the morning to examine the roads and the bus routes and determine whether or not they are safe," says Clarence Stukes of Arlington County School. "As soon as the first flake comes down, we have the salt trucks going out," said VDOT spokesman Mike Salmon. It looks like the situation will get under control with all these preparations made, and we can only hope that the weather is going to unbend and won't destroy the rest of what's left, so that the people can return to their home and live their normal life.

Writen byKatarina Nemcokova; edited by Iveta Nagyova

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