Olympic village at Sarajevo, site of the 1984 winter games
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Posted on 02/13/2014 10:49:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Give it a few hours! ;-)
Its well known that Sochi is the Russian WINTER RESORT! Russians go there to get out of the cold.
Why do winter Olympics in a warm place? My opinion is that they wanted an excuse to build up the place. Their alternative was to “create” a venue in a cold place that had no infrastructure, population, etc. etc., and on and on.
How many olympic sites around the world are now abandoned derelicts? China’s summer spectacle is now a graffiti festooned wasteland. I think those sly Rooskies didn’t want that legacy and wanted to kill 2 birds with one stone.
No insider knowledge, just MHO.
Now, as for the GorBullWarming clowns to point to Sochi, a well known moderated climate city, as an example of winter disappearing, well, stupid is as stupid does. And you just CAN’T fix stupid.
Olympic village at Sarajevo, site of the 1984 winter games
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fine by by me. Sucks in the afternoon or at the bottom but, if you go as often as professionals or I do you just get use to it.
Cept if a storm springs up on you after a day of getting wet and it clouds over but, I even then they probably don’t care about it anymore than I.
Can we assume that all the millions of people shoveling global warming along the Eastern Seaboard as we discuss this article will write The Atlantic and the moron author of the article their thoughts on the matter...?
There's snow in Hawaii?!
I just found the answer myself. It snowed in the mountains, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, back in January during a winter storm. The snow must still be on the ground.
Just Damn! I forgot all about Sarajevo!
Winter Games there were suppose to bring in all kinds of good stuff to that God forsaken backwash place.
Reinforces my opinion that the Russians thought Sochi through very diligently.
When all the westerners go home and all the grumbling about poor hotels is forgotten, the Russians will have a far more improved winter retreat. All to themselves. Thank you Olympic Committee.
And they will laugh all the way to the bank.
I could be wrong, but I think they thought, trucking in snow was a lot more economical than building a whole city in the middle of nowhere, and then leaving it to the wolves and badgers when everyone else went home.
lol, at least we won’t freeze to death
as he showed by backing the hero of benghazi down in syria Putin is the Alpha dog.
dead horse alaska.
Worth noting that Northern Scandinavia, precisely because it’s on the other side of the polar vortex causing the exceptional conditions in North America, is having an exceptionally warm winter, 4 degrees C above average in some regions. I’ve just come back from skiing in arctic Finland, where it was a balmy - 5/10 rather than the -20+ I usually find there at this time of year. Bears are coming out of hibernation too early, and reindeer are starving because the snow has been through a thaw/freeze cycle and has reset so hard that they can’t scrape through it to the lichen on which they depend.
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