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St Petersburg turned white by heaviest snow in century
Saint Petersburg (AFP) Dec 24, 2009 Saint Petersburg has been blanketed in white by the heaviest snowfall to hit the former Russian imperial capital since 1881, local authorities said on Thursday. On Wednesday evening, there was a nine-centimetre (3.5-inch) coat of snow across the city of five million, rising to 14 centimetres (5.5 inches) on Thursday, St Petersburg council said. The exceptional snowfall -- the highest since December 1881 -- snarled traffic and more than doubled travel times in parts of the northwestern city according to residents. City officials deployed 1,216 snowploughs, 340 lorries and 1,144 workers to clear the snow, officials said. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Big freeze kills at least 80 across EuropeParis (AFP) Dec 21, 2009 The death toll from winter storms across Europe rose to at least 80 on Monday as transport chaos spread amid mounting anger over the three-day failure of Eurostar high-speed trains. With tens of thousands stranded by the cancellation of London-to-Paris trains and hundreds of flights across the continent, new accidents and mass power cuts added to the big freeze tumult. A car veered off ... read more |
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