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„QUANTUM SHOT” #613
Link – by A. Abrams

If you’ve been snowed under for some time, these pictures will help you feel better

„Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?…” (Job, 38:22) Some translations put it as „the treasures of the snow”. Well, it seems some locations get entirely too much of this good thing:

Snowed under in the most epic way (somewhere in Switzerland):

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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…
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There is a car here, somewhere -

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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:

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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:

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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 -

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Might as well head out and frolic in the snow:

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

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