Winter Turnpike: Frozen Zuyder Zee Becomes Highway
Winter Turnpike: Frozen Zuyder Zee Becomes Highway
Frozen Zuyder Zee Becomes Highway. Europe's severest winter in generations has made a thruway out of Holland's Zuyder Zee as autos make the sixty-mile trio from one side to the other as the ice reaches a thickness of 3 feet. Night finds a revival of the torch light parade every one from grandfather to toddler takes part as well as grandmothers to daughters. This is an aerial shot of the frozen Zuyder Zee, the inland sea that has frozen over. MS - Police directing traffic on the Zuyder Zee. MS - On coming cars driving on the frozen sea. MS - MCUS - A gas station set up on the frozen sea so cars can travel safely. MS - Dutch people choose to skate the 60-mile width of the sea. MCUS - People lighting torches, throngs gather.