Posted on 01/20/2013 8:36:07 AM PST by Hojczyk
While the snowstorms have caused inconvenience for large population centers in western Russia, they have been life-threatening further east in the country. The 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.
Meanwhile, icicles up to three feet in length have formed off the ledges of buildings, breaking at random and causing a lethal hazard for pedestrians below.
Elsewhere, the extreme weather continues. In the Altai Republic in Western Siberia, 12 Russian settlements were isolated because of the snowstorm. Seven settlements, with a total population of 1,300 people, remain cut off from the outside world due to the snow drifts. Emergency crews are currently en route to deliver needed supplies to the stranded populations.
Snow accompanied by strong winds has caused flight delays in the airport of Russia’s far eastern town of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The runway has been cleared, but planes are not risking takeoff due to strong sidewinds. Flights were also delayed in Russia’s easternmost cities of Vladivostok and Khabarovsk.
More snow storms are predicted in Western Siberia and the Western Urals over the weekend.
In the end of 2012, Russia saw extreme winter not witnessed since 1938. The coldest-ever December in Russia led to the evacuation of hundreds of people in Siberia, where temperatures fell below -50 degrees Celsius; Moscow also saw its coldest night ever for the season.
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If your home can survive that structurally, it will actually be cozier, (easier to heat) than without the snow.
Global warming at work, no doubt.
That's the spirit!
In Russia, snow plows YOU. Cool pictures!
My preference is not to have the snow at all. I must admit though at the 78 degrees we have here today it does not feel much like winter.
Now if you happen to like snow, this would be a bit much.
Hmmm, anyone know of any ski resorts in that area? Talk about a blower! Colorado could use some of that!
I take my leaf bags and tuck them around the foundation, then when it snows I pile it on top of them. Hey, every little bit helps, and it’s free.
Indeed...the ‘cold wave’ settling into Red Hampshire this week is going to be ‘mellower’ than originally anticipated.
When I see pictures of a hood I wonder, where does the guy think he’s going to go when he shovels out the whole car? What’s the point.
“After endless hours of shoveling snow all I found was youst the hood.”
Valley of the Drifting Vistling Show - Yogi Yorgesson
When I lived in the high mountains I used to take the snow plowed from the driveway and pile it against the north side of the house. It worked well for keeping the inside comfy.
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When I see pictures of a hood I wonder, where does the guy think he’s going to go when he shovels out the whole car? What’s the point.
“After endless hours of shoveling snow all I found was youst the hood.”
Valley of the Drifting Vistling Show - Yogi Yorgesson
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In fact their services are pretty good at dealing with things like that.
Streets are usually driveble within hours after a snowfall like that.
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When I see pictures of a hood I wonder, where does the guy think he’s going to go when he shovels out the whole car? What’s the point.
“After endless hours of shoveling snow all I found was youst the hood.”
Valley of the Drifting Vistling Show - Yogi Yorgesson
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In fact their community services are pretty good at dealing with things like that.
Streets are usually driveble within hours after a snowfall like that.
Norilsk is the northernmost city in the world and is a mining town. It has been a closed city to foreigners for a decade.
Lying north of the Arctic Circle, there is no daylight for six weeks from mid-December to mid-January. In mid summer, it sees continuous daylight AKA the “midnight sun.”
Its a very harsh place to live, if you like constant snow and below freezing sub-zero temperatures.
Unreal.
>Its a very harsh place to live, if you like constant snow and below freezing sub-zero temperatures.
What’s it like if you don’t like them?
Thanks for the pic of a warmly lit snow tunnel doorway. It brings back fond ‘70s memories of the Myra Creek mine in the mountains of Vancouver Island. Snow accumulation at the camp was over 15’ - plywood tunnels were built between cookshack and bunkhouses.
Good eats - that’s why the memories are fond!
It’s 18 in kabul. Always thinking about the guys on patrols.
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