Perilous
Times and Climate Change
Hurricane leaves 7,500 without power in south Russia
by Staff Writers
Moscow (AFP) Feb 8, 2012
A hurricane in southern Russia has left 7,500 people without
electricity and injured 74, Russia's emergencies situation
ministry said Wednesday as cold weather continued to grip Eastern
Europe.
High winds on Tuesday broke powerlines in the Black Sea city of
Novorossiysk and three small villages, leaving 7,500 people
without power amid temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celcius, the
ministry's Krasnodar region branch said.
Seventy four people had to seek medical attention, the ministry
said in a statement.
An abnormally cold wave sweeping across Central and Eastern Europe
over the past week has already lead to dozens of deaths,
particularly in the Ukraine, Poland, and Romania.
In Russia, temperatures ranged Wednesday morning from minus 22
degrees Celcius in Moscow to minus 33 degrees Celcius in the
Siberian region of Yakutia.
The death toll brought on by the cold stood at 64 people across
the country, according to the health ministry.