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 17/5/2009 : 23/09/2009
العمر : 56
الموقع : اسكندرية
 | موضوع: رحلة الى روسيا  الثلاثاء يونيو 22 2010, 23:05 | |
| 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:
(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:
(images via)
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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