Snow shuts down Oslo as police struggle with surge in accidents
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Winter has arrived in the east with its customary disregard for the morning commute. In Oslo and the surrounding regions, buses have been cancelled, traffic has reached a standstill, and police say they are struggling to keep up with the volume of calls from drivers who have left the road. In Larvik, a school bus veered into a ditch; one child was taken to hospital.
The disruption is total enough to have reached the national football team, whose training sessions were postponed, and the fish farming industry, which is assessing the damage from an avalanche in Austertana. For those staying indoors, the view is no better: electricity prices have hit record highs as water levels in southwestern reservoirs continue to fall.
The Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, will miss today's European summit due to illness. His cabinet, meanwhile, has begun using artificial intelligence to draft answers to parliamentary questions, a labor-saving measure that opposition members have compared to a comedy sketch.