Is it snowing?

[Arwon]

In the California mountains last week they were predicting up to 15 feet of show in a single storm. Canada is even further north

Yes I know that. But the neat, vertical clearing of the road...? Wouldn't there be a huge danger of it falling down onto the road?

 

[Cutlass]

If the snow packs hard enough, it's just a little short of the way glaciers are made. I had that on a smaller scale today. A drift over the sidewalk was ~30 inches deep. And the snow blower cut the sides in a nice cliff that didn't collapse. If it stays cold enough long enough, those edges are more icy than snowy. And it might have been built up in more than one storm. In the mountains, and that is a mountain pic, you don't just plow the snow. Sometimes you use a bucket loader and other heavy construction equipment. Something like this would do it:

Here is the ultimate snow-mover in the industry. With the ability to cast up to 4,000 tons of snow per hour. It also provides the versatility of optional attachments, including sweepers, blowers and plows. Through long, grueling hours of harsh weather, the attention to operator comfort is highly regarded.

 

[emzie]

edit 2: that picture can't be Canada, unless it was flipped. The cars are on the wrong side of the road.

Snow like in that picture happens. Not so much here in Michigan anymore, but in the Dakotas I know it happens, and likely in central Canada.

I would have placed that outside the Parries, the Rockies probably. The vegetation is right for that, and there looks to be elevation changes in the background. If I had to guess, based on the fact the road is also sealed and the snow was so dutifully cut away (Arwon, we have giant snow blowers here that cut away snow banks to create the cliff-side look) I'd peg it as a ski resort area.

edit: cutlass beat me to the giant snowblower things. You can see the various layers of snow fall built up in the side of it. It's really cool when we get a lot of snowfall in Ottawa and they come by with the snow removal equipment: you can see layers like in the earth of the various storms.

There's some great pictures on the trans-Labrador highway, which look quite a bit worse.

http://www.thedieselgypsy.com/Labrador Snow.htm

I drove very similar roads to the trans-Labrador, but in summer. In a very weird sense, they're easier to drive in winter.

 

[Cutlass]

contre, that is odd. I can't think of any nation that drives on the wrong side of the road that gets that kind of snow. Unless that's in the Himalayas. Yet would India or Nepal clear snow like that?

 

[Karalysia]

Britain, Ireland, and Japan gets snow of the wrong sided drivers. It might be them.

 

[Cutlass]

They don't get 30 feet of snow. Unless some place in the north of Japan does.

 

[SuperJay]

What part of Michigan do you live in?

Two words. Both start with A.

 

[danjuno]

I know people who ski in Arizona.

Flagstaffers. Completely out of touch with the rest of the state.

 

[emzie]

contre, that is odd. I can't think of any nation that drives on the wrong side of the road that gets that kind of snow. Unless that's in the Himalayas. Yet would India or Nepal clear snow like that?

New Zealand might get that kind of snow in the mountains? It might just be that the image is flipped.

 

[Cutlass]

New Zealand might get that kind of snow in the mountains? It might just be that the image is flipped.

It's been identified by a couple people as being Japan. See the funny pics thread in Humor. Though I wasn't aware that any place in Japan had snowfall totals anywhere in that range of depth. Maybe the mountainous regions in the north of the islands.

 

[GamezRule]

Two words. Both start with A.

Took me a minute, but I am guessing Ann Arbor?

 

[SuperJay]

Took me a minute, but I am guessing Ann Arbor?

Ding ding ding!

(Holy crap. You were born the year I was a sophomore in college. Where's my cane??)

 

[Fanatic Noob]

No snow here at least, but very cold. -13 degres in C.

 

[Yeekim]

And I thought the pics I posted were bad.
I stand much humbled...

EDIT: Although...why does it say ROFLBOT on the image and state "Canada" when it is claimed to be Japan? Couldn't it still be photoshop?

Also, what happened to the snow that was removed from the "canyon"? Piles on either side seem to be not nearly high enough...

 

[Tee Kay]

state "Canada" when it is claimed to be Japan?

Because Japan isn't usually associated with towering mountains of snow while Canada is.

 

[Cutlass]

lso, what happened to the snow that was removed from the "canyon"? Piles on either side seem to be not nearly high enough...

If you look at the tops on both sides where it looks higher and dirtier than the snow deeper than the snow further from the road, that's an indication that a snow blower tossed it up there.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I'm in Boston and I got about a foot of snow.

 

[W|M]

It's been identified by a couple people as being Japan. See the funny pics thread in Humor. Though I wasn't aware that any place in Japan had snowfall totals anywhere in that range of depth. Maybe the mountainous regions in the north of the islands.

If it's in the Kuril islands, the place where that picture is from is disputed by Russia.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

Here in Central Ohio, we got around 6-8 inches of snow the week before Christmas. Some of the snow is gone, but the forcast says it's going to be in the mid to high 50's by the weekend.

 

[W|M]

Inches or degrees?