Cars vs. Snow

Cars vs. Snow: Cars lose. And we have to dig them out.

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:

(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)

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4 Responses to “Cars vs. Snow”

1. aliza says:

   November 3, 2011 at 11:28 pm

   Amazing photographs

   Reply
   • Lucka says:

     November 23, 2011 at 8:28 pm

     Your articles are for when it abosultley, positively, needs to be understood overnight.

     Reply
2. Arnie says:

   November 23, 2011 at 9:01 pm

   Woah nelly, how about them appels!

   Reply
   • Klondike says:

     December 5, 2011 at 10:38 pm

     Hey, sublte must be your middle name. Great post!

     Reply