Sunday, May 6, 2012

Lots of Snow!

If you've been snowed under for some time, these pictures will help you feel better
"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?..." (Job, 38:22) Some translations put it as "the treasures of the snow". Well, it seems some locations get entirely too much of this good thing:

Snowed under in the most epic way (somewhere in Switzerland):


Huge vintage snow fall (would like to get some info):
Norilsk, Russia, The World Capital of Snow

Vicious winter blizzards in Norislk, Siberia, bring an inordinate - even obscene - amount of snow...
(images via 1, 2)
There is a car here, somewhere -
Norilsk climate is impressive not only in winter - here is a brooding storm over the city, spring 2009:
Norilsk citizen's pasttime (and a popular extreme sport) - they call it "Buildering":
Snow being cleared from the Trans-Labrador Highway in northeastern Canada:
Similar "snow walled-in" road situation, this time in Japan:
SnowMageddon... or SnowPocalypse? These pictures are from Italy:
To dig (this car out), or not to dig?

Most of the time the answer is: yes, you'll have to dig..
"Buses are encrusted in ice and snow in the Omaha, Nebraska suburb of Elkhorn, where a fire was being put out" -
Archeological strata - cultural remains and natural sediments, buried over time...
Some drivers fight back and make in their garage something entirely different:
But if you want to catch a ski lift, you might be out of luck:


Written By Awais Ali

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