{"id":9966,"date":"2010-12-27T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T09:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2022-09-22T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:22:26","slug":"freezing-rain-hit-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/freezing-rain-hit-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing rain hit Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-disrupt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9967\" title=\"Winter Weather\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-disrupt-280x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-disrupt-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-disrupt-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-disrupt.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Freezing rain has badly disrupted air traffic at Moscow&#8217;s airports and left more than 400,000 people in and around Russia&#8217;s capital without electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Rain that immediately turned into ice on the ground caused power failures, shutting Domodedovo airport for hours and stranding thousands of people. The power was later restored.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of flights to and from other Moscow airports were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Bad weather also turned many streets in the city into ice rinks.<\/p>\n<p>Domodedovo airport remained shut for more than 10 hours on Sunday, after the power supply was cut off, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The outage was caused by tree branches touching power lines loaded down with ice.<\/p>\n<p>The power was only restored late in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 flights were also cancelled at other Moscow airports because of bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>In the city itself, freezing rain damaged power supplies to trams and trolley buses and caused huge traffic jams.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials urged residents not to risk walking on the icy streets and stay indoors.<\/p>\n<p>At an emergency meeting, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered ministers to rectify the situation as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freezing rain has badly disrupted air traffic at Moscow&#8217;s airports and left more than 400,000 people in and around Russia&#8217;s capital without electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,14],"tags":[6134,1567],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-world","tag-putin","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}