There was a snow blanket and a warning for dangerous weather today in most of Bulgaria.
The element activated landslides, caused roadblocks and traffic problems.
With landslides on the road to Samokov and uncleaned intercity arteries, the snowy Saturday began for the Sofia region.
At noon, the precipitation stopped, the snow on the roads melted into slush, but sections of the road remained impassable.
Sofia residents rolled up their sleeves against the element since the morning and together pushed bus 120.
For a short time, public transport access to Vitosha was stopped, and in the early afternoon a tram derailed near the Central Railway Station.
„According to initial information "The cause of the accident was an incorrect gearshift due to adverse weather conditions," announced the "Stolich Autotransit" company.
The fight against snow in Sofia continued throughout the day. Although there were no shortage of snowplows on the streets, citizens remained skeptical about snow removal. There was no shortage of jokes on social networks.
The road to Samokov via Kokalyane was opened in the late afternoon.
The Sofia Inspectorate is calling on merchants to clean in front of their shops, and all of us in front of the entrances of our homes, where large cleaning machines cannot pass.
In the early hours of the day, the situation in the Northwestern part of the country was literally heart-stopping, after main roads were blocked by snowdrifts, and police officers took on the role of road workers and cleaned the snow by hand.
In places, there were kilometer-long traffic jams of cars, road accidents and even curious situations.
“These are the guys, they don't let anyone travel to Sofia, they send us back. I'm going to return the car to Mezdra, get on the train and continue“. This is part of a comment posted on the social network about the situation on the E-79 near Mezdra this morning.
Drivers claim they did not see snowplows on the way to the capital.
Our viewer comes across a curious situation - a policeman with a shovel shovels snow in front of a truck.
There were also difficulties in the Montana region. In the morning hours, traffic towards the Petrohan pass was limited to one lane due to an accident in the area of the village of Barzia between a passenger car and a pickup truck. There were no injuries. But a frantic battle with the frozen wipers began on the ridge.
In the early afternoon, the international road E79 in the region was closed to all motor vehicles due to snow removal and remained impassable for hours, which further burdened traffic through the mountain pass.