Greece buried under snow

athens - Greece is white. Large parts of the country are in the night from Sunday to Monday buried under a load of snow. Numerous rural villages and islands in the Aegean Sea are cut off from the outside world.

In many places it is a power failure, so heaters are not working and there is no drinking water. The phone lines do not often work. Many schools remain closed in the country in any case Monday.

Temperatures in Greece, as well as, increased slightly in most other European countries. However, the temperature change was accompanied by a lot of snow. In some places, such as the island of Evia, the snow layer measuring 3 meters. Many trees have succumbed under the snow.

Crete marvel the inhabitants to the splendor of the white winter, which is unknown to most residents of the island. It snowed there forty years ago for the last time. The thermometer there fell to minus 15 degrees, even that is a rarity.