Sun, 26 Dec 2010
Moscow - A freezing rain Sunday struck Moscow, turning streets into dangerous icy paths and forcing operations to shut down at one of the city's airports, the Interfax agency reported.
Within minutes, Moscow's pavements were coated in ice, causing hazardous road conditions. Railroad services in the entire Moscow region were disrupted as ice formed on the overhead electricity wires.
At the Domodedovo airport south-east of Moscow, authorities stopped all operations with no planes allowed to land or take off after the ice storm.
Beforehand, electricity at the airport had been cut off when a major cable connecting the electric power stations snapped.
Meanwhile Russia's top medical official, Chief Sanitary Inspector Gennadiy Onishchenko, advised Muscovites simply to stay home in order to avoid possible injury.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/359709,airport-operations-shut-down.html.
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