Falling snow and ice caused many accidents due to poor visibility and bad road conditions. Moscow witnessed a 13-kilometer jam on MKAD, one of the city's main highways, reducing speeds to 10 to 25 kph in the capital.
Falling snow and ice caused many accidents due to poor visibility and bad road conditions. Moscow witnessed a 13-kilometer jam on MKAD, one of the city's main highways, reducing speeds to 10 to 25 kph in the capital.
he polar circle city of Norilsk has been buried under 10 feet of snow – entire apartment blocks, markets, stores and offices were buried under snow overnight. Banks of snow were as high as two people put together, reaching the second-story windows of some apartment buildings. Cars, stores, garages were blocked. Norilsk metropolitan workers were forced to dig passageways through the snow banks to create access between the outside world and the barricaded city.
I can remember snow tunnels from the front door that towered over my head at my grandparents place like this one.
omg nightmare
and this piece is phenomenal;
even as technologically advanced as we are, mother nature can still do us in, right in the heart of a major city
Ditto.
Although my perspective was cemented by the fact that I could climb to the top of the snow and walk onto the roof.
Which was always met with "Get off the roof!!!"
I really miss real snow.
I can remember, clearly, the long 'tunnel' to the detached garage (about 20 to 25 feet behind the house, house was on a corner so the driveway was in the backyard) and just how pristine the walls were. My grandfather was a fastidious man.
And I not surprised you used it as an opportunity to get on the roof, lol. What fun that must have been.
You'd swear those old guys used a level and plane to square those walls eh?
Running from one side to the other, jumping at the edge to see how far we could make it away from the house, and how deep we could sink.
It was a hoot.
The best was a huge old abandoned A frame chalet about a 20 minute walk into the bush, we nailed branches to the southern exposed side and tobogganed down the north.
Not to mention the snow combined with the lower bows of the surrounding old growth pines provided us with a cavernous base of operations for winter warfare.
You'd swear those old guys used a level and plane to square those walls eh?
Running from one side to the other, jumping at the edge to see how far we could make it away from the house, and how deep we could sink.
It was a hoot.
The best was a huge old abandoned A frame chalet about a 20 minute walk into the bush, we nailed branches to the southern exposed side and tobogganed down the north.
Not to mention the snow combined with the lower bows of the surrounding old growth pines provided us with a cavernous base of operations for winter warfare.
I really miss real snow.
Bite your tongue....I just finished one hour of shoveling that white shyte....Too damn cold for the snowblower...starter frozen...
Bite your tongue....I just finished one hour of shoveling that white shyte....Too damn cold for the snowblower...starter frozen...
The neighbour is borrowing the cord I have strung out to the street to plug in the
cars....with a heat gun...'cuz the starter on his F150 is frozen up right now. Well,
that's his plan anyway once he warms up from try'n to get it started earlier today.
I've used a propane tiger torch in a stovepipe to heat up a pickup that wouldn't start in the cold...