The progress in restoring power and the water supply to areas of Attica that were cut off due to the problems caused by the bad weather was examined at a technical meeting at the civil protection service on Wednesday, chaired by Civil Protection and Crisis Management Minister Nikos Hardalias, ANA reports.
After the meeting, Hardalias said that the overwhelming majority of the problems in the electricity network will have been repaired by the evening so that things can get back to normal, adding that restoring power was the top priority. He said that the network had suffered extensive damage as hundreds of trees felled by the snow downed power lines, especially in the north and east Attica, adding that “Medea” brought one of the worst spells of bad weather and heavy snow in the last 20 years but was now receding, with the “struggle” now transferred to Crete.
He also announced that the Athens-Lamia motorway was reopened at 4:00 on Wednesday.
In Athens’ northern suburbs alone, more than 400 people were working on a 24-hour basis, with additional reinforcements brought in from areas outside Athens, to repair 85 instances of damage to key supply lines in the last two days. Of these some 42-43 have been repaired, he added, with priority for the homes that had been without power for the longest, in Dionysos, Agios Stefanos, and Anoixi.
He reported some 800 fallen trees, saying this was tantamount to one tree falling every two minutes.
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