Death toll from Europe's cold snap hits 400

Death toll from Europe's cold snap hits 400 as explosive experts 

Death Toll Rises in East Europe's Cold Snap, Disrupts Travel‎

  Cold Snap Slugs Europe; Thaw a Threat

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Here is a quote from the top word button: "“This is a disaster, we have been cut off from the rest of the world … Snowploughs cannot reach us, so we have to walk to get some bread and basic things,” Marko Ancic told the Slobodna Dalmacija daily after trekking some 17 kilometres from his village to reach the nearest town." end quote.

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Large parts of eastern and southern Bosnia were also cut off by the snow and avalanches. There has been no contact since Friday with the hamlet of Zijemlje, some 30 kilometres from the town of Mostar.
“We don’t know what is going on there. They have not had electricity since Friday and phone lines are cut, they have no running water,” Radovan Palavestra, the mayor of Mostar, told AFP.
“There are elderly people who are very fragile and children including a baby of two months.” end quote.

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In Romania, two heavily pregnant women had to be flown out by helicopter in the eastern area of Iasi after their villages were completely cut off. Another pregnant woman had to be ferried to hospital by tractor in the eastern Paltinis area after her ambulance became stuck in the snow.
Schools were shut in large parts of the country, including Bucharest, while many train services were cancelled. Around 40% of roads were also closed, although flights did resume from Bucharest airport.

AFP Photo / Nikolay Doychinov

Yanka Atanasova, 70, cries as she sits in a tent in the flooded village of Biser, Bulgaria on February 7, 2012

Snowstorms lashed Bulgaria, a day after eight people drowned in raging rivers and the icy waters from a broken dam that submerged a whole village to the southeast. end third quote. All quotes so far are from the first article button above.

This is so bad I feel like I'm reading something from "The Day After Tomorrow" which was a disaster movie about most people in the Northern U.S. and Northern Europe Freezing to death.

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In the Czech Republic, where the temperatures fell to minus 38.8 degrees, 93 measuring stations from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute last night reported the lowest- ever temperatures for that date. Temperatures are set to plunge again to as low as minus 25 degrees next weekend after a slight improvement, the Czech forecast shows.

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I can't really explain all this except what appears to be happening from my point of view is that the really bad weather this year instead of equally coming to North America and Siberia, is now coming only to Siberia and Asia and on down into europe and into North Africa. Someone recently was worried that ocean currents have changed in the North Atlantic because of ice melting sort of like in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow". However, not being a weather or ocean scientist I can't really speak with any real knowledge or authority on this subject. So, whether this is all temporary or is becoming a more permanent winter experience for europe and North Africa I can't really say.

I found another interesting article regarding the cold in Italy. This article also has an embeded video report from the most hard hit regions like Serbia:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/02/201227115428438270.html