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A young girl walks in front of a tent, in which she has lived since last year's earthquake, in Van on Friday. A powerful quake shook the Van province, on October 23, 2011, killing more than 600 people and injuring around 2,600. It was followed on November 12 by a 5.6 magnitude tremor that killed another 40 people in the same area.
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A man climbs on snow as he gets out from a small cottage in the village of Varasti village, 100km east from Bucharest, on Friday. The death toll caused by the Siberian cold wave continued to widen Friday in Romania, to 57 deaths, said the Ministry of Health.Sixteen people died in the last 48 hours, thirteen in the night from Thursday to Friday, while nearly 150 have been treated for frostbite and hypothermia.Some 60,000 people were isolated in the east, their supplies of food and water being depleted, according to local authorities. Fifty communities were without electricity.
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Romanian peasant woman Rodica, 41, shovels around one of her car buried in snow, in the affected village of Maineasa, 30 kilometers north-east from Bucharest, Romania, on Friday. Some 13 deaths were register in Romania due to severe hypothermia in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 57 since first cold wave hit the country on 27 January. Heavy snowfalls are expected over the weekend in eastern and south of Romania.
AP reports from Turkey, where some people made homeless by October's earthquake are still living in tents:
Gonul Meral, 33, has two children and has been homeless since October, when her landlord evicted her after an earthquake left her husband unemployed. She says her tent is so cold that water inside it is freezing solid.
"It is so hard, I had to fight to get a tent and I don't know whether they will let me keep it because those whose houses were damaged have priority," Meral said by telephone. "I am doing the dishes now, but the water in the basin is frozen and I have to heat the water again."
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Hang tough and help your neighbors ....
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Snowfall: Silently, flake by flake it falls, building ever higher, remaining frozen until thaw, then becomes torrents of water rushing downhill to the sea. It never fails to amaze me, as I look at clouds, imagining the weight of the water and what would happen if it came down all at once. Tons and tons of water held aloft as vapor. I wonder now of what Spring will bring where these mountains of snow have fallen......ribbit.
Where is the government of Turkey and Romania to help these people?
They need help now!!
They are waiting for countries like the US to step in and take care of them. While we have Veterans of all wars sleeping in the streets without getting medical care for their mental and physical issues from the results of chemical warfare. It is sad that we cannot take care of the US and let the rest handle their affairs
Send AlGore over! With all his hot air about the non-excellent (man-made) global warming he ought to be able to huff and puff and blow the snow away. What a shame charlatans like Gore are seldom made to answer for their lies.
Those are the conseguences of global warmimg, read some ...ignorance is a letal weapon.
Please show these pictures to the UN reps of Turkey and Romainia and ask them what seems to be the problem, Red Cross send this kid some thermerls and some nikes that fit.
true we have our own problems to worry about, but really, we have so much we can't help others? We are a light in the dark, a nation with a heart. Come on now, We are compassinate people. Don't decide from unsubjected topics. So we have homelessness here. We're still a young country. Y should we follow the selfish. We are not draggers, we are leaders. To be a good leader U must have an open heart. WE will take care of our own. Blessed we are. Shear the blessings. Really how much could it cost? A life is a life. I am no better or greater than any we are all equal. "Blessed is he who does for the less." Blankets, Coats, food n heaters is all they need. We just got to get them over the hump. My brothers in Turkey N Romainia be strong my prayers r with U. God help us all.
Very well said Esiquio Rios.
I'm for helping those people in Romania and Turkey, but I'm not naive enough to think that we would receive any thanks for doing so.
During World war II, we had "Bundles for Britain." In return, the British gave us their undying hatred. I recently worked at a company that conducted a residence program for foreigners from the firm's worldwide offices. By far, the most critical of the United States were the British. They never stopped looking for things to criticize in America. I solved my problem by talking to them as little as possible.
After World War II, we conducted the Marshall Plan to bring Europe out of its devastation. What did we get for spending our tax money on the Europeans? Criticism and more hatred. They, especially the British, said that we did it only because a strong Eupope was to the Americans' advantage.
I have two words for the foreigners who criticize America and they're not "good Luck."
Eighteen feet of snow in Alaska. Fifteen feet of snow in Romania. Is htis global warming or the start of an ice age?
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