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Heavy snowfall in Turkey - Hurriyet
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19 Feb 2008 Tue 03:09 pm |
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TRAFFIC PARALYZED
Heavy snowfall and cold weather paralyzed the daily life and the traffic across the country on Sunday and Monday. Snowfall closed schools in several provinces. It also blocked roads to thousands of villages. On the other hand, snowfall left a great portion of Istanbul without electricity. 2,049 personnel with 1,154 vehicles exerted efforts to open roads to traffic. 159 homeless people were taken to Alibeykoy sports hall. Municipality authorities said homeless people could stay there until weather conditions became normal. On the other hand, meteorology officials said cold weather would keep affecting several provinces till midweek.
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19 Feb 2008 Tue 03:17 pm |
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The weather is awful but we are happy because snow means water in summer and countrysides with flowers in spring
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19 Feb 2008 Tue 03:21 pm |
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Mujde, you are so right, especially when you read this old article about Turkey's water shortage:
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=73400
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19 Feb 2008 Tue 03:31 pm |
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Istanbul is still at a critical level. The water dams was 30% full in last August. And they are still 30% as of today. Let's see how high it gets after this snowfall.
How full are Istanbul dams?
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19 Feb 2008 Tue 03:35 pm |
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They say it will increase + 5 percent
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19 Feb 2008 Tue 05:13 pm |
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Quoting Roswitha: TRAFFIC PARALYZED
Heavy snowfall and cold weather paralyzed the daily life and the traffic across the country on Sunday and Monday. Snowfall closed schools in several provinces. It also blocked roads to thousands of villages. On the other hand, snowfall left a great portion of Istanbul without electricity. 2,049 personnel with 1,154 vehicles exerted efforts to open roads to traffic. 159 homeless people were taken to Alibeykoy sports hall. Municipality authorities said homeless people could stay there until weather conditions became normal. On the other hand, meteorology officials said cold weather would keep affecting several provinces till midweek.
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why so many "on the other hand"s in this paragraph? It doesn't make sense! 
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19 Feb 2008 Tue 06:05 pm |
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Quoting bjk: Quoting Roswitha: TRAFFIC PARALYZED
Heavy snowfall and cold weather paralyzed the daily life and the traffic across the country on Sunday and Monday. Snowfall closed schools in several provinces. It also blocked roads to thousands of villages. On the other hand, snowfall left a great portion of Istanbul without electricity. 2,049 personnel with 1,154 vehicles exerted efforts to open roads to traffic. 159 homeless people were taken to Alibeykoy sports hall. Municipality authorities said homeless people could stay there until weather conditions became normal. On the other hand, meteorology officials said cold weather would keep affecting several provinces till midweek.
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why so many "on the other hand"s in this paragraph? It doesn't make sense! |
We generally only use "on the other hand" as a figure of speech when it is opposite to what was being said, which in this case it is all about the same cold weather. So you are right , but to someone whose first language is English, it still makes sense. 
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