In the Southeast, heavy rains in the Balkans Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia and Montenegro that worst floods caused along the Drina River in more than 100 years overwhelming villages and caused evacuated more than 1,000 people from their homes.
But involved in the North, all misery, the cold and snow. In the United Kingdom were cancelled flights flights at Gatwick Airport on Friday after two days where airport fully concluded with more than 1,200, continue to delete as hectic efforts to the snow, as it fell failed. On the Friday after workers start and landing runways were 150,000 tons of snow in 36 hours away, it only limited service to the airport, and hundreds of stranded passengers remained camped out in the terminals.
Many flights from airports over the rest of Northern Europe - including from Charles de Gaulle in Paris, Schiphol Amsterdam, Tegel in Berlin and the airports in Edinburgh and Vienna - delayed or canceled.
Efficient rail of Europe were also stymied. About 3,000 train passengers were stranded overnight on Wednesday in Germany, spent while 200 passengers filled the night trains in Frankfurt am main hotels. Many train lines were simply shut down. Sixteen Eurostar trains have been canceled on Friday.
The streets were much better. Traffic was in many large cities growled as commuters in the location by public transport to, fight to to the and of the workplace. Many gave up and went home. In Denmark of armored personnel carriers operated by the army that their way through the snow cut, so that ambulances and other emergency vehicles to respond to accidents. Belgium congestion were allegedly some 403 miles Street growl.
Temperatures are bitterly cold, much colder than usual for this time of year. Scotland recorded temperatures of minus 4 degrees Celsius. The temperature at the Leeming air force base in North Yorkshire, minus 1 degree Fahrenheit, was the lowest on record in the 55 years since records began.
In Poland temperatures in the Northeast fell to minus 27 degree and at least 150,000 people were told that without electricity in Czestochowa, a town in the South. The authorities said at least 30 people died of exposure in Poland in the last three days, most of them homeless or alcoholic, to much drunk and passing out outside.
Other deaths include four in the Czech Republic, three in Germany and at least two in the North of England.
Cancelled all his Premier League football matches and all its train services North of Glasgow Scotland and closed most of its schools. The Automobile Association said that it had answered 16,000 breakdown calls across the UK on Thursday on the usual double.
The week followed a familiar trajectory in the UK, where many areas rarely get snow at any time during the year. First there was bad weather; then there was the traffic stoppages, then there was the blame game. "Why slide in chaos?" Daily Telegraph asked.
In Parliament, many legislators have been at home Plug and failed it in for a discussion about the weather. But Maria Eagle, transport spokesperson for the opposition labour party, Philip Hammond, the transport Secretary, "demonstrated a stunning degree of complacency" accused the poor conditions and told him, "Get a grip."
Speaking of followed a report on the chaos that said Eagle during last year's snow storms, woman, "the winter resistance checking has commissioned by the previous Government produced its final report and recommendations, nor that the country into chaos with passengers is forced at railway stations, stuck freezing all night in the broken trains and trapped in their car sharing - costs for the economy" of the equivalent of nearly $2 billion per day.
In response Mr Hammond accused woman Eagle "Failure of the weather event to recognize scale." In a comment some irritated stranded drivers, he said the Government also abandoned cars of correctly delete the streets were prevented.
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