Lots of Snow!

"QUANTUM SHOT" #613 Link - by A. Abrams 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): (original unknown) 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) (images via) There is a car here, somewhere - (images via) Norilsk climate is impressive not only in winter - here is a brooding storm over the city, spring 2009: (image credit: Alexander Grishin) 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: (images credit: SnowJapan) SnowMageddon... or SnowPocalypse? These pictures are from Italy: (images via) 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" - (photo by AP Photo/Nati Harnik - via) Archeological strata - cultural remains and natural sediments, buried over time... Digging out a Mercedes E-series car in Canada: (original unknown) The climate inside sometimes is not much better: Some drivers fight back and make in their garage something entirely different: (images via) Bizarre and Terror-inducing Icicles Here is an impressive ice formation - Hard Rime Ice, most often seen atop mountains in winter - (image via) (image via) Might as well head out and frolic in the snow: (image via) (image via) But if you want to catch a ski lift, you might be out of luck: (somewhere in Europe, image via) ALSO: VERY COOL WAY TO GET RID OF SNOW -> CONTINUE TO ICE STORMS! -> READ MORE OF "EXTREME WEATHER SERIES" -> Permanent Link......+StumbleUpon ...+Facebook