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.
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Hope the wind turbines hum and the solar panels glisten.
If Russia attacks Ukraine from the rear, would it need vaseline?
Big wind
and Big sun
when winter comes
can’t get it done
It doesn't take the Oracle of Delphi to predict that this will be blamed on "climate change".
There's always Greece.
***Snow on February 29th is very rare***
LOL! My sister’s actual birthday!
Trump’s fault!
Due to lack of responses, you went over everyone's head.
Ha!!! That was great
Are you familiar with Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance”? One of the characters was supposed to be apprenticed to a pilot but his nurse was hard of hearing and apprenticed him to a pirate, until his 21st birthday. But it turned out his birthday was February 29 so he would remain an apprentice until he was 84.
“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.”
My GF’s son is doing the same thing at an AFB in the upper latitudes of the US and feels the same way.
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