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Kaunas residents rushing to the Molas shopping center stop at the closed door and return. On Wednesday night, all the stores closed their doors, there was too much snow on the roof. Kaunas residents speculate that perhaps the roof has already broken here. People say they are most likely afraid of the tragedy that happened in Latvia 7 years ago, when the Maxima shopping center collapsed in Riga’s Zolitūde district, killing 54 people.
The building got caught in a stop lane, it was not asked to approach. Residents were very surprised and scared to see the accumulations of snow dangerously hanging from the roof.
“Now it looks like a scarecrow when you go up the stairs but you don’t look, I saw the snow fall, cruel,” says one of them.
The manager of the shopping center claims that he closed the market with insurance because several inches of wet snow had accumulated on the roof.
“After evaluating the wet snow loads on the roof structure of the building, we decided to suspend the operation of the shopping center,” says Indrė Januševičiūtė, manager of the Molo shopping center.
A group of workers worked on the roof, digging snow and dumping it. The area of the shopping center is twenty thousand square meters, the roof is huge, and the most dangerous places have been cleaned first. The structures were not in danger.
“There is a lot of snow, we take preventive measures and start cleaning the roof,” explains I. Januševičiūtė.
Snow has caused many problems in other cities as well. The losses are calculated by representatives of the Panevėžys animal shelter, where the guarded cats lost the terrace. In it, they enjoyed the warm days, this was broken by the heavy snowfall.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Luckily there were no cats because of the cold. They were inside, the victims collapsed with the whole roof, with everything,” says the animal’s keeper, Rūta Liberienė.
The volunteers also had to pull the cubs out of the snow and break their aviaries.
The natural disaster did a lot of damage. Firefighters rushed more than 200 times in the last day to cut down fallen trees that collapsed onto roads, cars and houses. Mainly in Vilnius, Alytus and Kaunas counties. The fallen, who did not withstand the load of the snow, also damaged the property of many people.
Most of the residents are applying, but it is already known that the losses suffered by the Vilnius municipality due to the soccer field, which collapsed due to the snow load, will also need to be covered.
According to insurers, it is difficult to determine the exact amount of damage so far, but it will certainly be in the hundreds of thousands.
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