Stock Photo - A driver makes a beeping impression here. About 100 people are on February 15, 1979 with cars and trucks on the premises of the Rastattatte Brokenlande on the Hamburg-Flensburg highway. The drop in temperature on December 29, 1978, led to snow chaos in northern Germany, the north of the GDR, Denmark, and southern Sweden. Partly the traffic and the power supply collapsed, localities were cut off from the outside world. In the Federal Republic alone, 17 people were killed because of the snow chaos. On February 14, 1979 dense snowfall and a gale-force storm in northern Germany led to another snow chaos. | usage worldwide. - /Schleswig-Holstein/Deutschland