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More Than a Week Without Electricity: Is This Normal in 21st-Century Lithuania?
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More Than a Week Without Electricity: Is This Normal in 21st-Century Lithuania?

From Delfi · () Lithuanian

Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Thousands of residents across Lithuania remained without electricity more than a week after a storm hit the country.
  • The community in Saliai village, Kaunas district, also lived without power for more than a week.
  • Residents said seven days without electricity could no longer be described as a temporary inconvenience.

More than a week after a storm ravaged Lithuania, thousands of residents still had no electricity, including the community in Saliai village in Kaunas district.

Residents rejected the description of the outage as a temporary inconvenience. โ€œThis is no longer a temporary inconvenience. These are seven days during which people cannot live normally in their homes,โ€ they said.

The situation has prompted a broader question in Lithuania: whether living without electricity for more than a week can be considered normal in the 21st century.

This is no longer a temporary inconvenience. These are seven days during which people cannot live normally in their homes.

โ€” Residents of Saliai villageResidents described the prolonged power outage as an unacceptable disruption to normal life, rather than a temporary inconvenience.
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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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