Environment
Athens Hit by Worst Flooding in 50 Years: Scenes From the Streets
A huge overnight storm trapped commuters, knocked out power and killed at least one person.
The morning commute today in Athens suddenly became a flailing slog through a hail-strewn lap pool as a swollen storm system thrashed Greece like a helpless gimp.
Meteorologists estimated that the amount of rain that fell today was equal to what the country gets on average for the entire month of February. The situation was not helped when a couple rivers in Athens swelled over their banks and poured into the streets, creating rushing estuaries of what looked like sludgy chocolate milkshake. Drivers were stuck for hours in their cars, and one woman was found dead inside her vehicle of an apparent heart attack.