(26 Dec 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Manezh Square near Kremlin covered by snow, pan left
2. Close of Kremlin clock tower, fade out to icy tree branches
3. Mid of people and trucks at square, pan right to man shovelling
4. Wide of tractor removing snow from Red Square
5. Mid of trucks cleaning square, zoom in
6. Zoom out of couple walking through slush
7. Pan from pile of snow to trucks cleaning street
8. Moving shot of people walking through slush
9. Various of car covered in snow and ice
10. Various of woman scraping ice from car windows
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alesya, Moscow Resident:
"The weather is good, but I don't like this (pointing to ice on car). Yesterday I have spent about an hour doing the same (de-icing car) and today. I will have to suffer a lot more for some time to come - judging by weather forecasts."
12. Wide of cars driving by on icy street
13. Close of icy tree branches
14. Wide of New Year tree
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Marina, Moscow Resident:
"The streets are very slippery and we walk very carefully so as not to fall down. We would expect better work (from the authorities)."
16. Wide of cars driving past, police car and minivan in the middle of street
17. Mid of damaged minivan after road accident, cars passing by
18. Wide of street, man trying to break ice with shovel on pavement
19. Close of poster, reading: (Russian) "Happy New Year!"
STORYLINE
Icy rain shut down Moscow's largest airport for nearly 15 hours on Sunday, coated roads with ice and left more than 200-thousand people and 14 hospitals without electricity in winter.
The rain struck the city on Saturday night and immediately turned into ice, covering streets, pavements and trees.
Moscow city authorities have sent out thousands of cleanup trucks and poured tons of salt solutions to fight the ice on the roads.
Moscow motorists woke up on Sunday to find their cars covered with an inch of ice.
Power lines across the region, loaded down with ice, snapped if touched by a tree branch, causing disruption to public transport and suburban trains.
Russia's chief sanitary official urged Moscow residents not to risk walking on the icy streets and to stay indoors.
Workers were scrambling to restore the power supply after heavy ice snapped power lines, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said.
Moscow's major airport Domodedovo shut down on Sunday morning after the power supply was cut off.
No planes were allowed to land or take off for some 15 hours before the airport allowed outbound flights, opening check-in for two dozen domestic destinations.
The full power supply had not yet been restored.
Moscow's other two major airports, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo, remained open but experienced delays.
Unlike the rest of Europe, Moscow had no airport delays or major road accidents last week due to winter weather.
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