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:


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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:


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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" -


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Archeological strata - cultural remains and natural sediments, buried over time...





Digging out a Mercedes 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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