No one is taking concrete, personal responsibility for this situation. The temperature drops. Heating and water pipes freeze and burst. Residents resort to electric heaters, which overtax the electric system already operating at only partial capacity because of fuel shortages. Temperatures inside drop lower.
More pipes freeze.
The temperature in the room with the heaters is just above freezing. The temperature elsewhere in the apartment is so low, the thermometer has frozen. You can't go to the toilet properly. All the pipes and sewer lines are frozen. So we use a bucket . . .