Incredible Ice Storm Destruction in Slovenia

Slovenia, snowstorms have caused enormous damage to the extent that […]

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February 8, 2014

Slovenia, snowstorms have caused enormous damage to the extent that the state of natural disaster proved. Half of the country’s forests have been damaged by freezing rain and completely frozen landscape. Trees and power lines like giant ice. This video was filmed in the town of Postojna in southwestern Slovenia. Slovenia: Icy winter storm causes widespread freeze.

Roughly one-quarter of Slovenia was affected by severe ice storms and blizzards on Tuesday which the country’s Defence Minister Roman Jakis has described as “a large-scale natural disaster”.

Trains have been brought to a standstill, and one in four homes have been left without electricity amid sub-zero temperatures. Slovenian authorities have reported that over 5,000 people have been evacuated and 40% of alpine forest has been damaged as a result of the heavy onslaught of snow and ice. Slovenian prime minister Alenka Bratusek has requested assistance from fellow EU member states through the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism.

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32 Comments

  1. Vitaly Petrukhin February 5, 2014 at 12:36 pm - Reply

    Amazing!

  2. 64jcl February 5, 2014 at 4:59 pm - Reply

    Crazy, looks like a scene from Day after Tomorrow. This is what happens
    when you mess with the jetstream by filling the atmosphere with tons and
    tons of CO2.

  3. Joe Kwiatkowski February 5, 2014 at 5:26 pm - Reply

    Amazing!!!!!

  4. Edmunds Enins February 5, 2014 at 6:26 pm - Reply

    Hold on guys!

  5. Stephen Nielsen February 5, 2014 at 8:30 pm - Reply

    How long will we continue to ignore the evidence?

  6. Hermann TheGerman February 6, 2014 at 12:54 am - Reply

    its a snow genocide

  7. Adrian Śliwiński February 6, 2014 at 1:26 am - Reply

    +64jcl
    Co2 doesnt have an influence with this. EU govs are making syntetic clouds
    so its getting colder in some countries.

  8. Katherin Ayala February 6, 2014 at 2:02 am - Reply

    Winterwonderlanddddd

  9. Brad Neustaedter February 6, 2014 at 5:33 am - Reply

    Holy crap…! The trees in this vid look like they’ve been hit by ice
    magic, they are totally, utterly destroyed by an insanely thick layer of
    ice. Apparently 40% of the entire countries forests were killed in this
    one event…this is some science-fiction shit going down here.

  10. DerUnbekannte February 6, 2014 at 5:44 am - Reply

    I’d say it looks wonderful, if it wasn’t so bad for the forests

  11. Sean Gobbell February 6, 2014 at 5:51 am - Reply

    Looks like a videogame…

  12. Leo Driscoll February 6, 2014 at 6:17 am - Reply

    Unbelievable

  13. Sean McCloy February 6, 2014 at 8:36 am - Reply

    I got to wonder if there is something we are not being told? Farmers
    almanacs got to be used for toilet paper now?

  14. Greg Walker February 6, 2014 at 11:54 am - Reply

    Brave people out walking in that. I can only imagine how many branches were
    coming down around them. Gorgeous, but terrible that it destroyed so many
    trees.

  15. trohinvadim February 6, 2014 at 1:55 pm - Reply

    NARNIA DOES EXIST!!!

  16. Sankalp Kota February 6, 2014 at 4:39 pm - Reply

    my god. I wish the country a speedy recovery.

  17. Roberto Beltran February 6, 2014 at 10:56 pm - Reply

    Thats an insane amount of ice. Brave person to drive out in that. I
    wouldn’t. Btw, thats a Subaru! Nice. That car is impressive in those rough
    ice covered roads.

  18. Thomas Belstler February 7, 2014 at 3:46 am - Reply

    Lived in New England most of my life and have been through a few of these
    types of storms. They’re no fun, especially when the power goes out for
    days, weeks for some people.

  19. give me pizza or give me death February 7, 2014 at 5:19 am - Reply

    that’s an ice storm, not a snowstorm.

  20. Albacorewing February 7, 2014 at 7:12 am - Reply

    The American Southwest right now is warmer than usual, and going through a
    terrible drought.

  21. Brenda Shepherd February 7, 2014 at 11:29 pm - Reply

    Amazing!

  22. l Neo l February 8, 2014 at 10:10 am - Reply

    Still not as bad as the 1998 Ice Storm in Ontario Canada. We had exploding
    voltage boxes, trees breaking windows, military people breaking bones
    trying to fix hydro lines, doors would freeze shut, car breaks wouldn’t
    function etc. Several people died. It looked similar to this, but less
    snow and much more ice.

  23. Flash light February 8, 2014 at 9:14 pm - Reply

    More than 350k citizens (of 2mio poppulation) was wuthout electric power.
    Many trees are destroyed … for more reality picture – we lost so many
    forrests as we “cut” them in all two years. But there is more pictures
    about that wetter. You can check that slovenian news website (in slo
    language):
    http://www.rtvslo.si/okolje/brez-elektrike-cetrt-milijona-slovencev-v-podravju-tezave-s-pitno-vodo/328923and
    http://www.rtvslo.si/okolje/foto-zamrznjeni-prizori-slovenije-vkovane-v-led-in-sneg/329173

  24. spela majeric February 8, 2014 at 9:38 pm - Reply

    i am from the north-west of slovenia.we had to battle the cold and the ice.
    everything made of glass just shatered if hit by hand.we were without
    electricity for a week because of that the pump did not work and it was
    freezing. . .basically everything went to hell that week.

  25. Guy Gordon February 8, 2014 at 10:36 pm - Reply

    OK, time to stop complaining about our winter weather around here. (watch
    the whole video)

  26. Saud Alali February 9, 2014 at 4:26 am - Reply

    unestly this scary place every things is frozen

  27. Peter Nolan Smith February 10, 2014 at 12:32 am - Reply

    better driver than anyone in atlanta

  28. Peter Nolan Smith February 10, 2014 at 12:33 am - Reply

    but where the heck is he going

  29. srbija990 February 10, 2014 at 9:53 pm - Reply

    Hold on brothers! Serbia wish you the best!

  30. Flora Konsta February 11, 2014 at 4:33 pm - Reply

    It is wonderful! Congratulations!! Such a painful beauty!!!

  31. paolamm1 February 12, 2014 at 11:29 pm - Reply

    My best desire for you brothers…. regards from Mexico.

  32. krucymucy February 15, 2014 at 8:26 am - Reply

    I come from one of the places that were hit most badly by this icy
    rainstorm. Yes trees had fallen, roads were closed, we were without
    electricity for about ten days, there’s a lot of damage, but it wasn’t to
    bad during that time.
    In the evenings we all went to a bar and drink beer, had a real
    conversations with each other. Like in good old days…
    Then we got back electricity and my liver was grateful for that :)

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