| Cars vs. Snow Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:49 PM PST  "QUANTUM SHOT" #674
Link - by Avi Abrams
Cars vs. Snow: Cars lose. And we have to dig them out.
Don't miss our first part: Lots of Snow!. And now, let's get back to digging cars from the snow - again... although, the more you dig them out, the more white stuff seems to fall on them and bury them back under:
(images via 1, 2, AP Photo/Beth DeFalco)
When your neighbour won't move his car... use laser snow removal!:
(originals unknown)
Enough is enough! -
A nasty surprise awaits...-
Maybe if you prepare for a snowfall with a structure like this... it will be easier on your car:
Snow drifts are quite common on the roads of Alberta and Saskatchewan - the last storm of January 11 stranded hundreds of motorists near Calgary and Strathmore (read more):
(image via)
Recent storm on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago (no jokes about a bad LSD trip, please):
(more info here, image via)
Here is the famous Snow Road in Japan: Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, in the mountains of Toyama Prefecture - in some places the snow is 20 meters thick!
(photo by by Mihai Japan, via)
Snow in Italy can be also pretty grand: here is a small car near a snowdrift in the Gran Sasso mountains:
(photo sent in by Roberto Ferri)
Now you can really appreciate this artwork (an installation by Ivan Puig, Spain):
Snow Monster (is there a car inside it, too?):
Interesting "blob"-shaped snow monsters stand on guard in the Russian Ural Mountains:
(image credit: Denis Burdin)
If your car could be made of ice, you'd have no problem:
(image via)
You think you had enough ghastly silence in your snow-buried neighborhood? Compare it to this Siberian ghost town somewhere in Kolyma, and shudder:
(image via)
Snow removal surprise:
Show some shoveling ingenuity:
Once you're done shoveling outside, make sure to close the door after coming in! -
(image via)
And be careful when getting into a snowed-over outhouse - the roof might cave in! -
(bottom image via)
Finally, after all these stressful and upsetting pictures, here is a reminder that snow - even lots of snow - can be actually nice and beautiful:
("Deep Silence", photo by Sven Muller)
(images via)
CONTINUE TO "LOTS MORE SNOW!" ->
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