Yep, we got some snow, as evidenced by the photo of the White Tower (photo courtesy ERT online). If you look at the picture, it doesn't seem like all that much snow - yet schools and businesses were shut down, in the ongoing struggle for Greeks to just get an extra day or two off.
Granted, it is bitter cold outside (around 20° F), and any snow that melted no doubt quickly turned to ice (as evidenced by our balcony), so I have no doubt that indeed the national highways were too dangerous for trucks over night (they were forbidden from travelling from 6pm until 6am). Honestly, though, the national highways are too dangerous for trucks or passenger vehicles at any time of day or night, so it seems rather moot. Generally speaking, I think the remote islands and villages are at a much greater risk, as several are virtually cut off from the rest of the world, and many have no power.
As far as Athens and Thessaloniki go it seems like much ado about nothing, but Greece wouldn't be Greece without a bit of overreaction now and then.
At least we have these frost survival tips to go by.
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hehe. We have minus 12 degrees, the old snow's as hard as rock and ICY, and there's new snow to come soon. But no talk over here of schools and businesses closing down!
Looks like enough snow to toss a couple of snowballs.That's the important thing. (unless someone is throwing them at you of course)
I think the center of Athens never really had problems. You'd see the pictures on NET and it never seemed to really settle down there, the roads always looked fine anyway.
Up here in the Northern suburbs, we've had it worse. Poor me, I've had to take three days off work this week and probably not bother going in tomorrow.
It's a hard life!
scruffy american: it made headlines here as well(I blogged about it). It's not really the re-naming of the stadium though, which is the big deal (I really don't give a damn what that stadium is called) - but the fact that people are shocked at Schwarzeneggers support of the death penalty. It's especially a big deal to the city of Graz (his ex-hometown), which has been declared as Europe's first city of Human Rights....Awkward, no?
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