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Snow at tolls stations are seen in Malgara near the Greek port ...
Feb 7th, 2012
(AP) - Snow at tolls stations are seen in Malgara near the Greek port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Europeans across the continent have been battling more than a week of extreme weather, with thousands still trapped by snow in remote, mountain villages in the Balkans; hundreds, most of them homeless, dead after temperatures hit as low as minus 33 Fahrenheit (minus 36 Celsius); and authorities now facing the prospect of flooding caused by melting snow. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis) -
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