Many residents in southern Denmark were urged to stay home as a blizzard blanketed the region on Thursday, after the country experienced its coldest November in a decade. Colder weather is expected for December. The snow was so heavy in some places that patients had to be carried by armored vehicles to get to the hospital, while authorities are calling on residents to follow instructions and recommending everyone south of the Faroe Bridge to stay indoors, including those on Lolland and Falster islands. 'It's worse than normal, and the warnings are to be taken seriously,' said the officer on duty at the Road Directorate's Traffic Information Center. According to the Danish Meteorological Institute, on Thursday night the temperature will drop to minus 10 to 15 degrees Celsius, and even lower in some places. Public transportation has already been crippled by the snowfall as the state-run train company DSB has cancelled more than 100 train departures out of a total of 1,400 scheduled for Friday. The blizzard also caught many drivers on the road. The Falck emergency company said it received 430 distress calls from drivers in less than nine hours Thursday. 'We can expect some alleviation on Sunday, but we are not one hundred percent certain,' said Jesper Eriksen with the Meteorological Institute. 