A worker carries an insulator of a destroyed pylon near the north-western German village of Laer some 30 km north of the city of Muenster November 28, 2005. [A sudden winter freeze gripped parts of northern Europe on Saturday with heavy snowfalls cutting power and spreading air and road traffic chaos. A quarter of a million people were also without electricity in Germany's most populous state of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), authorities there said on Saturday.]