Martial Trezzini / Keystone via AP

A woman walks along the waterside promenade at Lake Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland on Feb. 5. Cars, boats, trees, streets incased in ice are common place in the area as a cold spell continues to cover Europe with temperatures plummeting far below zero.

Car encased in ice

-- The Associated Press

Europeans across the continent were digging out from heavy snow and ice after a week of bitter cold in which the number of dead — most of them homeless — continued to rise by the day. Temperatures have fallen as low as minus 33 Fahrenheit (minus 36 Celsius) in Ukraine, the hardest-hit country.

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