Dark Roasted Blend: Lots of Snow!

Monday, February 15, 2010

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)

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)

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COMMENTS::

37 Comments:

sami said...: whoa...
A lot of snow!; ___
ccspinko said...: Wow, thats incredible. Very good stuff dude.

Jess
www.isp-logging.net.tc; ___
David Great said...: Snow, snow and snow this year is true Winter Olympic year.
http://www.vancouver2010olympic.com/en/index; ___
Conlaeb said...: Abrams,
I have some history for you on your second photo titled 'Huge Vintage Snow fall'. This appears identical to a picture displayed in Suomi's Restaurant in Houghton, Michigan. Houghton is located at the base of the Keweenau peninsula and is known as one of the snow capitals of the state. I do not remember the date of the photo, if you would like more information shoot me an e-mail and I will respond with the details from the restaurant. I can recognize the riverfront vaguely in the photo :-)

-Corpo; ___
kayce. said...: as far as the second pic goes, i'm sorry i don't have better info, but i seem to remember that being sand ~ not snow ~ by that telephone pole. it's either in reference to windstorms in CA or the hurricane in galveston, tx. i'm still googling for more specific info, tho.; ___
HC said...: Now that's what I call snow... Nothing compared to the 15 centrimetres that have fallen here in Holland.; ___
Ben said...: Old school telephone pic...could swear it is from north dakota.; ___
Anonymous said...: The man next to the telephone pole - it is snow, not sand. Jamestown, North Dakota
Photo Date: March 9, 1966 - http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00958.htm; ___
Anonymous said...: The Japan picture is from Niigata Prefecture, Yuzawa, a ski-resort town. You can see a sign for Joetsu Kokusai in the background, which made me laugh. Jokoku is a pretty decent resort, been there four times or so and hoping to board there again this year. The snow in Niigata is usually half that size.; ___
phoenix taxi driver said...: Did anyone mention it is sunny and 75o Farenheit here in Phoenix Arizona this week end?; ___
migolfer said...: You asked about the 2nd photo. References:
* http://migolfer.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A1E14A2D28802CCE!216.entry

* http://nsidc.org/snow/gallery/blizzard_1966b.html

"A man stands near a utility pole in North Dakota, March 9, 1966. A spring blizzard produced snow so deep that it nearly buried the utility poles. (Source: NOAA/Department of Commerce. Courtesy of the Historic National Weather Service Collection.)"; ___
Marianne said...: Holy Crap! That's a lot of snow.; ___
Rania Ramadan said...: i am an ice eater , so I hope if I can eat all this snow, I will solute this problems
you have interested blog , I like cool ads, I wish if you visit me in some flowers/; ___
kernel.net said...: I can't believe the amount of snow seen in these pics, I have never realized how gentle is the weather here in switzerland....; ___
Polish Winter said...: In our country there also is a lot of snow. Maybe not in such amounts as on pictures, but in meaningful way.
Poland on snow; ___
Kimme Utsi said...: Lots and lots of snow. :); ___
Cherie said...: I will never complain about our North East Ohio winters again!!!; ___
Tomasz said...: No. 2 - probably a scene of the winter of 1978/1979 in Poland.; ___
Koneck said...: Whoa... now I don't feel like leaving Jamaica at all. So much ice, damn; ___
student SGH said...: it's a widespread myth that picture no. was taken in Poland in 1979. Someone just has found it in the Net and put it up as a fake. Nevertheless we had two-metre high snowdrifts in Poland thirty one years ago and tunnels similar to that "snow walled-in"; ___
Anonymous said...: "Huge vintage snow fall (would like to get some info):" Looks a lot like a photo I have seen in reference to snow in North Dakota, perhaps near the Fargo area.; ___
Anonymous said...: (Vintage snow pic at top) A man stands near a utility pole in North Dakota, March 9, 1966. A spring blizzard produced snow so deep that it nearly buried the utility poles. (Source: NOAA/Department of Commerce. Courtesy of the Historic National Weather Service Collection.) Larger version (33k).
http://nsidc.org/snow/gallery/; ___
Anonymous said...: I was in Honduras during Christmas and overheard that it had snowed for the first time in recorded history in... Guatemala! Upon research, however, i discovered that some volcanoes there get snow every once in a while.; ___
Pizarro said...: Preciosa imagenes me han gustado mucho, saludos desde Guareña-españa.; ___
Anonymous said...: strong winter doesn't mean that there is no global warming..wait till summer (besides temperatures are pretty high for a winter..it's just a lot of snow(rain) this year...; ___
Anonymous said...: Laura Ingals-Wilder recounts as a child back in the 1800's where there was a storm that came up to the second story bedrooms. So global warming must occur every so often, and of course there were a lot of carbon emissions back when the territories were just becoming states, right?; ___
David said...: hey, thats unbelivable. Very good shots; ___
truthmiracle said...: I think that the "Huge Vintage Snowfall" photo may be from the winter of 77-78. I remember seeing it then.; ___
Mitch H. said...: I'm pretty sure that first photo is of a doghouse, not a full-scale house. That much snow to scale with an actual two-storey would have caved in the roof.; ___
Anonymous said...: Someone should check out a place called Garrett County, Maryland USA. I have seen pictures taken there that compare to a lot of these pictures and they are south of the Mason-Dixon Line.; ___
Terry said...: I thought I hated snow before but I can't imagine living in that stuff.; ___
Anonymous said...: Cool pics, really! Being a Swede, I can tell you the last picture shows ski lift Tusenmetersliften in Åre, Scandinavia's greatest ski resort.

Cheers.; ___
Anonymous said...: Where I ride my snowmobile in the Colorado Rockies they have over 200 inches and drifts normally are 3-10 feet after a Pacific front comes through. Taxi Driver in Arizona just doesn't get it......Oh Ya next week it is going to be sunny and 60 in Denver.....; ___
Anonymous said...: that wasn't a BMW :); ___
Chris Miller said...: Just moved from Alaska to Houston, Texas. Can't say I miss this kind of snow :); ___
Paul said...: Don't want to be a smartass and all but Mercedes makes E-classes, BMW makes 5-series.; ___
Commander of All said...: Ah, this reminds me of the ice planet Hoth.; ___

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