ثلج ورعد وبرد

 

 

صباح ومساء الخير 

 

روسيا عاصمة الثلوج

إذا ظننا أن الأمطار والغبار الذي جاء قبل أيام  أمس أغلق الكثير من الطرق والشوارع ، فلنحمد الله أننا لسنا في روسيا.
 

 
If u think yesterday was bad look below
 
 
 

 

Norilsk, Russia, The World Capital of Snow
Vicious winter blizzards in Norislk, Siberia , bring an inordinate - even obscene - amount of snow...

  

There is a car here, somewhere -






Norilsk climate is impressive not only in winter - here is a brooding storm over the city, spring 2009:
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(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 :



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 fought.



Archeological strata - cultural remains and natural sediments, buried over time...




Digging out a BMW E-series car in Canada :





The climate inside sometimes is not much better:




Some drivers fight back and make in their garage something entirely different:


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Bizarre and Terror-inducing Icicles

Here is an impressive ice formation - Hard Rime Ice, most often seen atop mountains in winter -










Might as well head out and frolic in the snow:






But if you want to catch a ski lift, you might be out of luck:

 
 

 
 

Somewhere in Switzerland :

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