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)

Charge!!!

 

A man charges through a bonfire on horseback in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, during an event honoring Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals.

Source: Time

Miraculous!

The following article is extracted from Time. 

Passengers wait on the wings of US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus 320 that was safely ditched in the Hudson River after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines.

This photograph was taken by artist Steven Day. He recalls, "I have a freelance job on 47th street, on the 8th floor. I was working on my computer when someone passed by me and said, 'what is that?' So I instinctually grabbed my camera —I'm working on a series that involves recording the world around me — and went to the window and started shooting. My initial reaction was 'this must be an exercise.'

It didn't occur to me that it was a plane until I zoomed in, because they were just moving down the river like a boat. I mean, you just don't see people standing on the wings of an airplane in the middle of the Hudson River. Alive...The river was moving so fast it was only a matter of seconds before the plane floated past us. The photo here is one of the first frames I took, there's actually a water taxi approaching that ended up being cropped out.

Very quickly there were 4 or 5 ferries responding, and passengers were being taken on board. It was strangely calming. This was an incredible situation, and everyone was there and they knew what their job was and what their limitations were and they were just waiting to be rescued."

Source: Time

Optical Illusion?

 

A man walks through a Tokyo building.

Source: Time

Dinner

A duck, pheasants and rabbits hang from a clothes line before being plucked, skinned and frozen near the village of Carnlough in Northern Ireland.

Source: Time