Europe in fire and water onslaught

Billions of euros in damage was wreaked by freak weather across Europe in July 2007. The death toll from the heat, fires, floods and storms mounted to the high hundreds, with many thousands more made homeless or having their lives disrupted by weather conditions that smashed records in many countries across the continent. Agriculture and tourism were particularly badly hit, with crops scorched in some areas, waterlogged in others, and tourists forced to flee fires in the south and storms and torrential downpours in northern countries. Electricity blackouts and water shortages caused by fire and flood and affecting hundreds of thousands of households and businesses compounded the chaos.

Article covers the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Hungary, Germany, Greece and the United Kingdom.