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Deep freeze
The harshest winter weather in a decade lashes (охватывать) Europe, disrupting (разрушать) travel by air, land
and sea — and claims (угрожать) the lives of hundreds.
By David Gordon.The
New Year made a stormy entrance
last week, lashing the Continent with
the severest cold snap (похолодание) in a decade. Snow, ice and subfreezing temperatures spelled (означать) chaos, and sometimes deaths,
from the Mediterranean to the Urals.
More than 220 deaths mostly among the homeless and the elderly were reported
as far south as Valencia, Spain.
Travel became a Homeric task. In the Caucasus, an avalanche (лавина) sealed (окружить кольцом) 300 people in a mountain tunnel connecting Russia and
Georgia for days. Air traffic was disrupted as was train travel. A Paris bound Euro star train carrying some 500
passengers got stuck in the Chunnel* for more than two hours, its engine stalled (останавливать) by snow. Ice clogged (препятствовать) river traffic on the
Loire, Elbe, Main and Danube. Even England's Thames* froze in places for
the first time
since 1963.The brutal
weather put a damper (действовать угнетающе) on
New Year celebrations. Those
who booked holiday trips to
resorts on the Adriatic found snow, not
sun, on beaches. Parisians ice-skated in the
shadow of the Eiffel Tower early in the week, but by New Year’s Day the city
was a ghost town as its citizens hid
from the chill (прохлада). In
London, the freeze
even muzzled (заставлять молчать) the
chimes of Big Ben for a few hours on New Year's Eve. Cold
snap didn't spoil all the fun. In London, brave bathers still took the annual New Year's Day dip (ныряние) in Hyde Park’s Serpentine. And in the Netherlands, some 16,000
Dutch donned (надевать) ice
skates Saturday for a 200-kilometer race across the frozen lakes
and canals in Friesland. That's marking the best
of a bitter situation.