1.   Many airports were also closed, as ice coated runways and the wings of airplanes.

2.   Sunny morning skies gave way to roiling clouds, and ice coated the buildings, towers and poles on the summit.

3.   The ice coated trees and power lines, weighing them down and allowing heavy winds to tear them apart.

4.   Ice coated streets in western France, some passes in the Pyrenees Mountains were closed, and warnings were issued to skiers to be wary of avalanches.