There has been an unusually long cold spell in Western Norway, with several nights in a row below minus ten degrees. This has taken its toll. Over the past week, the phones have been ringing off the hook at water and sewerage companies, which have been inundated with enquiries from desperate homeowners with no water coming from their taps, showers or toilets.
“It’s absolute chaos. I’m sitting in my home office and the phone just won’t stop ringing. We received 200 enquiries this weekend alone,” says Bjørn Guldberg, managing director of Vitek Miljø, when TV 2 calls. The prolonged cold spell has caused a great deal of frost and ground frost, leading to ice forming in a number of water pipes around the city and elsewhere in Western Norway.
Report on the bitter cold, TV2, Vitek