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| Paris after the 4 inches of snow it received this past week. |
Heavy snow in Paris not only shut down the airport but the Eiffel Tower as well as 4 inches of snow fell which is very unusual for this region. Bad weather also caused travel woes in Scotland and after bad flooding hit Spain a child's body was found. The Eiffel Tower was closed because they did not want salt to sprinkled on the structure as it may rust the metal. What is interesting about Paris is that they do not usually get snow, the risk of high accumulation is very low and therefore the people are not prepared to travel in it and there are not really any modes to clean it up which throws the city into chaos. A news conference was actually called in Paris to let people know that 5,000 additional police would be on duty due to the weather. It is so funny how Paris reacted to 4 inches of snow when Wisconsinites think 4 inches of snow is nothing! In Spain the young boy who was found after torrential rains flooded parts of the Alcudia River where the boy was traveling. Other areas of Spain were also evacuated due to the unexpected flooding. Maybe because these countries are considered MDC's their warning systems are better equipped and fortunately there was only one death from the disastrous and unexpected weather.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/winter/2010-12-08-france-scotland-snow-winter-weather_N.htm
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