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	Madrid airport closed as Europe freezes

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1-13-2009 12:19 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/77182c64-0a4b-4e91-9657-6ffb3253d151/6BB2C201-9E0E-4E7E-AA2E-D30CA661DF14/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/wl_afp/europeweather_newsmlmmd" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/wl_afp/europeweather_newsmlmmd" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/wl_afp/europeweather_newsmlmmd"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/BC519A8C-8BC0-4DB1-9649-6C0D3657847D" alt="Madrid airport closed as Europe freezes" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/wl_afp/europeweather_newsmlmmd">A rare, heavy snowfall in central Spain closed Madrid's airport and paralysed city traffic while several <SPAN id="lw_1231538746_0" class="yshortcuts">rivers in Germany</SPAN> were frozen as much of <SPAN id="lw_1231538746_1" class="yshortcuts">Europe</SPAN> endured Siberian conditions Friday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/wl_afp/europeweather_newsmlmmd"><P>
Across the border in France's southern Marseille region around 1,000 homes were still without electricity Friday with days of heavy snow -- not seen for 20 years -- causing major disruption to travel.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/wl_afp/europeweather_newsmlmmd"><P>
France's health ministry urged people to check up on those vulnerable to the cold, following a "significant increase" in the number of elderly people arriving in hospital emergency rooms.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/wl_afp/europeweather_newsmlmmd"><P>
In <SPAN id="lw_1231538746_7" class="yshortcuts">Germany</SPAN>, the death toll from the cold snap rose to three and several rivers were frozen over, blocking ship traffic, authorities said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/wl_afp/europeweather_newsmlmmd"><P>
Germany is experiencing one of its coldest winters of the past 100 years, with the mercury dropping as low as minus 34.6 <SPAN id="lw_1231538746_9" class="yshortcuts">degrees Celsius</SPAN> (minus 30.3 degrees Fahrenheit) in the mountains in the south.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/wl_afp/europeweather_newsmlmmd">Many schools remained shut and gas-rationing continued in <SPAN id="lw_1231538746_17" class="yshortcuts">Bulgaria</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6BB2C201-9E0E-4E7E-AA2E-D30CA661DF14/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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