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Ice age Europe: How the big freeze, with temperatures as low as MINUS 40, has turned Britain and the continent BLUE
Hundreds of Eastern European villages cut off as temperatures plummet to -40C
Melting snow causes dam wall to break and flood entire village in southern Bulgaria, killing four
European crisis commissioner says 'the worst is yet to come'
Europe continues to be blanketed in snow as the cold snap which has so far killed hundreds across the continent shows no signs of stopping.
Hundreds of villages across Eastern Europe were today completely cut off as temperatures plummeted in some places to -40C.
Rescue teams struggled to evacuate southern Bulgarians where villages flooded after rain and melting snow broke damn walls.
All white: This cyan areas on this aerial image shows the vast parts of Europe that have been blanketed in snow as the cold snap continues across the continent
Frozen: Lampposts are covered in the ice of waves in the Croatian Adriatic coastal town of Senj
Clear up: Volunteers clear the snow from the ice on the route of the intended Dutch Elfstedentocht (Eleven City Races) skating marathon in Sneek, Netherlands, today
A man enjoys the ice the typically Dutch way, on a bicycle, while others skate and walk on Prinsengracht canal, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Residents were also warned that there was more snow to come - which would be followed by severe floods when the temperature finally starts to rise and the snow melts.
Meanwhile temperatures in Britain are due to plummet to as low as -13C, with the big freeze due to last well into the weekend.
Electricity was also cut off to 300 towns and villages in Bulgaria, roads were closed and several border checkpoints with Romania and Turkey were shut, the Interior Ministry said.
An 18-month-old Siberian tiger plays in the winter snow at Skopje zoo
Smothered: Italy has also been blanketed in snow, which has disrupted schools, transport and general day to day life
Ice babies: A squirrel devours a nut Lazienki park in Warsaw, Poland (left), as a swan sits on partly frozen water in Strasbourg harbour (right)
Play time: Children and adults stroll on a frozen lake in Hamburg, Germany, despite warnings not to do so from national officials
Melting snow caused a dam wall to break and flood an entire village in southern Bulgaria yesterday. Four people drowned and more than 50 were evacuated.
Four more people died when their cars were swept away by high waters.
Iliyan Todorov, from the village of Biser, told Trud newspaper: 'It was terrifying. We were warned that the tsunami was coming only five minutes before the wave came. We survived by a miracle.'
European Commissioner for Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva added that 'the worst is yet to come' after visiting the village.
A snow covered train tracks are seen in the town of Alexandria, northern Greece
Ice covers the seafront of the Adriatic coastal town of Senj, Croatia
A boy slides down a hill on a plastic sheet in Bucharest, Romania, while cars remain covered by snow in the village of Mercogliano in southern Italy
Snow patrol: A police car battles blizzards and limited visibility on the A2 motorway which connects Bucharest to Constanta
Stroll: A hiker walks in front of a frozen waterfall in Oberhaslach, eastern France (left), while another walker goes along the ice covered landscape of the Tamina gorge in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Hard hit: Ukraine has been the worst affected by the cold snap, with 135 confirmed dead so far
She told bTV: 'The next two weeks may be really hard. The warmer weather will cause melting of the snow and the situation will most probably worsen.'
Ukraine has been hardest hit, with 135 people confirmed dead so far and forecasters saying bitter temperatures, as low as -30C, would continue for at least another eight days.
The Black Sea ports of Varna and Burgas have been forced to close due to strong winds, and Romania's main port of Constanta was also shut.
Authorities in Serbia said they were preparing to use explosives to break ice on the rivers Ibar and Danube.
Warming up: A Georgian man exercises near the frozen Tbilisi reservoir today as the snow shows no signs of letting up
Tough times: A woman waits for a bus in Kosovo's capital Pristina (left) as a snow truck battles against the elements near the village of Dardhishte (right)
Predrag Maric, head of the Interior Ministry's emergencies department, said: 'An ice cap half a metre deep has formed on the Ibar near Kraljevo and there is a real danger that it could cause the river to overflow into the city.'
He said 62miles of the Danube were freezing over and that it would also be mined.
Eleven people have died so far from the cold and snow in Serbia, with the latest victims a 62-year-old man found dead close to his home near Arilje, and a woman killed by falling ice in the capital Belgrade.
Serbian power provider TENT, which provides more than 60 per cent of the country's electricity, said it was managing to maintain supplies but was working at full capacity in 'extreme' conditions.
A sunken houseboat is seen on the frozen Zwanenburgwal canal in Amsterdam after its water pipes burst
Making use: People skate across frozen canals in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which have been closed to commercial shipping
People skate on the frozen Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands
To the south in Albania, the Kukes lake on the border with Kosovo - supplying a hydropower plant at Fierze - was frozen over for the first time in more than a decade, putting more pressure on already strained power supplies.
The cold weather has increased demand for gas in many European countries.
Italy took emergency measures yesterday to deal with what it called critical shortages of Russian gas.
Supplies to other members of the European Union mostly improved at the weekend but remained below normal.
Russia, which supplies about a quarter of Europe's natural gas, reduced westward flows through pipelines across Ukraine last week
citing greater domestic demand because of the extreme weather.
Race horses are exercised on the snowy gallops in Malton, North Yorkshire, England
Snow covers boats on a frozen section of the Sava river in Belgrade, Serbia
Mush! A competitor speeds through the snow with his Siberian huskies during a dog race in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Hundreds of Eastern European villages cut off as temperatures plummet to -40C
Melting snow causes dam wall to break and flood entire village in southern Bulgaria, killing four
European crisis commissioner says 'the worst is yet to come'
Europe continues to be blanketed in snow as the cold snap which has so far killed hundreds across the continent shows no signs of stopping.
Hundreds of villages across Eastern Europe were today completely cut off as temperatures plummeted in some places to -40C.
Rescue teams struggled to evacuate southern Bulgarians where villages flooded after rain and melting snow broke damn walls.
All white: This cyan areas on this aerial image shows the vast parts of Europe that have been blanketed in snow as the cold snap continues across the continent
Frozen: Lampposts are covered in the ice of waves in the Croatian Adriatic coastal town of Senj
Clear up: Volunteers clear the snow from the ice on the route of the intended Dutch Elfstedentocht (Eleven City Races) skating marathon in Sneek, Netherlands, today
A man enjoys the ice the typically Dutch way, on a bicycle, while others skate and walk on Prinsengracht canal, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Residents were also warned that there was more snow to come - which would be followed by severe floods when the temperature finally starts to rise and the snow melts.
Meanwhile temperatures in Britain are due to plummet to as low as -13C, with the big freeze due to last well into the weekend.
Around 146 towns and villages in Romania were isolated with no road or train connections because of blizzards.
Up to 174 villages had no electricity, said Alin Maghiar, spokeman for Romania's emergency department.
Electricity was also cut off to 300 towns and villages in Bulgaria, roads were closed and several border checkpoints with Romania and Turkey were shut, the Interior Ministry said.
An 18-month-old Siberian tiger plays in the winter snow at Skopje zoo
Smothered: Italy has also been blanketed in snow, which has disrupted schools, transport and general day to day life
Ice babies: A squirrel devours a nut Lazienki park in Warsaw, Poland (left), as a swan sits on partly frozen water in Strasbourg harbour (right)
Play time: Children and adults stroll on a frozen lake in Hamburg, Germany, despite warnings not to do so from national officials
Melting snow caused a dam wall to break and flood an entire village in southern Bulgaria yesterday. Four people drowned and more than 50 were evacuated.
Four more people died when their cars were swept away by high waters.
Iliyan Todorov, from the village of Biser, told Trud newspaper: 'It was terrifying. We were warned that the tsunami was coming only five minutes before the wave came. We survived by a miracle.'
European Commissioner for Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva added that 'the worst is yet to come' after visiting the village.
A snow covered train tracks are seen in the town of Alexandria, northern Greece
Ice covers the seafront of the Adriatic coastal town of Senj, Croatia
A boy slides down a hill on a plastic sheet in Bucharest, Romania, while cars remain covered by snow in the village of Mercogliano in southern Italy
Snow patrol: A police car battles blizzards and limited visibility on the A2 motorway which connects Bucharest to Constanta
Stroll: A hiker walks in front of a frozen waterfall in Oberhaslach, eastern France (left), while another walker goes along the ice covered landscape of the Tamina gorge in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Hard hit: Ukraine has been the worst affected by the cold snap, with 135 confirmed dead so far
She told bTV: 'The next two weeks may be really hard. The warmer weather will cause melting of the snow and the situation will most probably worsen.'
Ukraine has been hardest hit, with 135 people confirmed dead so far and forecasters saying bitter temperatures, as low as -30C, would continue for at least another eight days.
The Black Sea ports of Varna and Burgas have been forced to close due to strong winds, and Romania's main port of Constanta was also shut.
Authorities in Serbia said they were preparing to use explosives to break ice on the rivers Ibar and Danube.
Warming up: A Georgian man exercises near the frozen Tbilisi reservoir today as the snow shows no signs of letting up
Tough times: A woman waits for a bus in Kosovo's capital Pristina (left) as a snow truck battles against the elements near the village of Dardhishte (right)
Predrag Maric, head of the Interior Ministry's emergencies department, said: 'An ice cap half a metre deep has formed on the Ibar near Kraljevo and there is a real danger that it could cause the river to overflow into the city.'
He said 62miles of the Danube were freezing over and that it would also be mined.
Eleven people have died so far from the cold and snow in Serbia, with the latest victims a 62-year-old man found dead close to his home near Arilje, and a woman killed by falling ice in the capital Belgrade.
Serbian power provider TENT, which provides more than 60 per cent of the country's electricity, said it was managing to maintain supplies but was working at full capacity in 'extreme' conditions.
A sunken houseboat is seen on the frozen Zwanenburgwal canal in Amsterdam after its water pipes burst
Making use: People skate across frozen canals in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which have been closed to commercial shipping
People skate on the frozen Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands
To the south in Albania, the Kukes lake on the border with Kosovo - supplying a hydropower plant at Fierze - was frozen over for the first time in more than a decade, putting more pressure on already strained power supplies.
The cold weather has increased demand for gas in many European countries.
Italy took emergency measures yesterday to deal with what it called critical shortages of Russian gas.
Supplies to other members of the European Union mostly improved at the weekend but remained below normal.
Russia, which supplies about a quarter of Europe's natural gas, reduced westward flows through pipelines across Ukraine last week
citing greater domestic demand because of the extreme weather.
Race horses are exercised on the snowy gallops in Malton, North Yorkshire, England
Snow covers boats on a frozen section of the Sava river in Belgrade, Serbia
Mush! A competitor speeds through the snow with his Siberian huskies during a dog race in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany