Lots of snow; perhaps, too much...

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...






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:

(images credit: SnowJapan)

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" -

(photo by AP Photo/Nati Harnik - via)

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:



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 Europe)