Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Heavy snow brings Greece to standstill

From this article:
A raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend also continued into the early morning hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. Public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed. Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were snowed in.

1 comment:

papertiger said...

I was thinking about Crete and how it would be analog for say San Diego in the USA. That got me thinking about when was the last time it snowed in San Diego.
Turns out it was last week. lol

http://www.10news.com/news/15306349/detail.html

Probably not news to you.