Posted on 01/25/2022 3:14:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
More than 3,500 people were rescued on Monday, but about 300 drivers remained on the Attiki Odos motorway overnight.
Parts of Athens were also hit by heavy power cuts, with grid operators working to restore electricity.
Authorities say the storm...will persist until Wednesday.
Overnight temperatures plummeted to -14C. Government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou told reporters that the country remained "in a very difficult phase, as the forecasts indicate that we will face difficulties again in a while".
Meanwhile, officials in Athens declared Tuesday a public holiday, with public offices closed and all private business in the city, except for supermarkets, pharmacies and petrol stations, ordered to shut.
Private cars have also been urged to stay off the streets and the city's iconic Acropolis has been covered in a blanket of snow.
Fifteen people were also injured in central Greece after a rail transport vehicle tried to rescue a passenger train carrying some 200 passengers which had been halted by heavy snow.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
CHILDREN JUST AREN’T GOING TO KNOW WHAT SNOW IS
The Independent, 2000:
Snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries … Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community … According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Where’s a Greek Fire when you need one?
“OPA!”
Reminds me of the 70’s when I was starting high school. A whole collection of forecasts by the so-called experts of their time.
“The Earth’s Cooling Climate,” Science News, November 15, 1969. • “Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age,” Washington Post, January 11, 1970. • “Science: Another Ice Age?” Time Magazine, June 24, 1974. • “The Ice Age Cometh!” Science News, March 1, 1975. • “The Cooling World,” Newsweek, April 28, 1975. • “Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead,” New York Times, May 21, 1975. • “In the Grip of a New Ice Age?” International Wildlife July-August, 1975. • “A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable,” New York Times, September 14, 1975. • “Variations in the Earth’s Orbit, Pacemaker of the Ice Ages,” Science magazine, December 10, 1976.
Stick around long enough, you see this crap come and go, rotate so to speak, like global warming.....or something.
I've told the office that I will probably start making my weekly trek in sometime after Groundhog Day. As long as I get the work done, nobody gets too uptight.
I was stationed in England for 3 years in the 1970s and I worked outside on the airplanes. I would've LOVED for it to have been a little warmer.
Global warming!
When do we want it?
Now!
Snow in some Aegean islands, and in Israel too (not just in the mountainous north).
Um like so like you know it’s ummm like it’s like colder because it’s like warmer and stuff. Like science. Like read a book or something. It’s like complicated and stuff.
It snowed in the mountains between Attica and Boeotia on February 29, 1980. I don’t recall if it snowed in Athens (which is closer to sea level). Snow on February 29th is very rare—never occurs more than once every four years anywhere.
My kingdom for a horse!
Good.
“gerbil worming”
I’m impressed. You managed to use the word Like, 8 times. I take it that’s what Valley girls from California sound like.
What does this thread have to do with Mare Pete?
That’s what they sounded like in movies nearly 40 years ago. I was going for the dialect of the idiot college students of today. Pretty similar.
Nice.
I had to read it three times to get it. I’m a bit slow.
If Russia attacks Ukraine from the rear, would Greece help?
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