Ice storm with deep snow in Serbia: People experiencing mental breakdown after 48 hours without electricity, water and heating

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3 Dec 14 - "48 hours of agony in Majdanpek, people mentally break!" says headline.

Put on your coat and hat and get under a blanket and wait to pass this evil, say angry residents of Majdanpeka. At night it is very cold.

The city is bound by snow and ice, without electricity, water and heating, and the torture is far from over. The fourth attempt to connect pokidna transmission network, this afternoon failed. It's agony.

Business is great, joked a shop owner: he has sold burners for gas. These gadgets over the past two days in Majdanpeku have become worth gold, because it is only on them that food can be prepared.

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To make matters even worse, in this city of skyscrapers, the architects omitted chimneys, says Mirko Kobe. He lives in in the center of town with his wife and two sons, one of whom is chronically ill and requires constant care.

He adds that heating is only available in the hospital, which has a generator. "The hospital only has heating, and has currently one baby who was born on Monday night and 26 patients, of which I think are two pregnant women.

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A different resident, Milan, says that the transmission lines that have fallen were wrapped in ice 4-centimeters thick. Workers cut branches that have fallen around power lines, and progress is slow. More bizarre is that no one has physically visited the power plant, it is controlled by a computer in Belgrade.

The situation is cataclysmic, explains Milan. It's freezing cold. The home is cooler than outside! People are very angry, enraged, angry ... Everything is extremely difficult, residents are outraged, helpless!

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