Winter wonderland
Submitted by davidnielsen on Mon, 02/20/2006 - 04:53
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Snow?
Neve?
Nieve?
Neige?
Schnee?
Sneeuw?
Last week everyone at the Olympics was asking for snow.
Somebody was listening.
Wham! The mountains were slammed with a massive snowdump over the weekend. I’m no meteorologist, but I’d guess there was at least a foot of fresh powder.
Last week the Alps were brown. Now they're a gorgeous, glistening white.
The snow slowed everyone down for a while Sunday evening, but the roads were clear Monday morning. Clever folks, these Cesana Torineseans. They don’t just use plows to clear the snow. They use big ”˜ol honking snow tractors. I think I saw a VW bug buried by one.
Anyway, it’s nice to know that our prayers for snowfall were answered.
Now where's that sun?
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