Europe cold snap death toll tops 650 as 100-car pile-up is blamed on snow

In hard-hit Romania, some 23,000 people remain isolated in 225 eastern
communities where more than one week of heavy snow has blocked roads and
wreaked havoc on the rail network. Residents were worried that their houses
could collapse under the heavy snow as authorities struggled to bring them
food, water, medicine and wood.

A flight instructor flew his homemade powered parachute – a motorised vehicle
that flies at low altitude – making several 45 minute-trips to deliver bread
and canned food to people who have been cut off for days.

A five-month-old girl with severe pneumonia was taken to a hospital early
Wednesday by sled and an army vehicle after authorities struggled for six
hours to reach her.

Romanian farmers – faced with up to 15 feet of snow in some areas this week –
are concerned about their sheep, goats, horses and cows. One farmer said he
dug his pigs out of the snow and brought them into his home.

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