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Winter of Terror

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deaths, and destruction of 900 human-made structures. As in Austria, economically important forests were also damaged during the period.
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being deposited in a two- to three-day period. More than 600 buildings were destroyed and over 40,000 people were buried under snow.
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suffered the most damage and loss of human life with 135 killed and many villages destroyed. Thousands of
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of economically valuable forest in both Austria and Switzerland, were also damaged during the period.
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The period is thought to have been the result of atypical weather conditions in the Alps: high
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was a three-month period during the winter of 1950–1951 during which an unprecedented number of
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was hit by six avalanches within a 60-minute period, resulting in 13 deaths.
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Natural disaster in Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Liechtenstein
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