About 40 thousand households in a suburb of Budapest today remained without power because of ice rain and fallen trees in January stopped their work said Hungarian Agency for emergencies.
Ice with a depth up to 10 centimeters and be bound trees, branches and whole trees are crushed endangering the entire forest at an altitude of less than 400 meters that are closed to avoid accidents.
In one district of Budapest, the Hungarian authorities ordered the parents to send their children to school because of the way it would have to spend under fallen trees.