Is that a glacier in your driveway or are you just happy to see me?

In honor of today's winter weather repeat

How much snow is on the ground?!

This is a winter to remember! Starting to think about investing in a sled dog team both for transportation and warmth.

Star Wars vs Blizzard

This is NOT mine. :-)

Snowy trench run from Aaron Dabelow on Vimeo.

The Dangers of a Snowstorm

Be careful. It's on the way!

Video of the Metrodome Collapse... FROM THE INSIDE

Hat Tip to @SarrisW for this one.

Snowed In

From Townhall.Com.

Star Wars Weather

I love this site. Click on the image to get your own town's weather.

In Snow, All Is Calm

Moscow Mayor - Ban Snow from the City

There is an old story about the Communist Party mayor of Bridgeport, CT, Jasper McLevy. He once famously refused to pay anyone to plow snow off the roads, quipping, "God put it there, God can take it away."

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov is taking it one step further by proposing using the Russian Air Force to stop any snow from falling onto the capital city. The idea is that the air force can seed clouds outside the city to force snowfall there instead.

“What if we force this snow to fall beyond Moscow? The Moscow region will have more water, bigger harvests, while we will have less snow,” he said at an award ceremony for Moscow’s best-kept yard.

He said that using the Air Force to prevent massive snowfall would be three times cheaper than using the regular system of trucks and snow-melting stations.

The city approved the proposal in record time.

A spokesman at the public utilities department could not explain how a “big and serious snowfall” would be identified or be deemed worthy of deploying the Air Force.

“The mayor has said it will only be a couple of times per winter,” he said, without further explanation. The department declined to provide information on how much the city budget allocates to cleaning and processing snow.

The idea has a certain panache. But one can't help wondering what unintended consequences this may lead to. Specifically, I wonder what the villagers in the suburbs of Moscow thing of being purposely covered by artificial blizzards.

It snows in UAE

In general, I tend to leave the Global Warming debate to environmentalists and policymakers. But I had to laugh at this one. For the first time in decades, it snowed in the United Arab Emirates. The event is so rare that local residents claim their dialect has no word for "snow".

Note to Self: Use Snowblower, NOT Flamethrower

More proof that no bad idea is too dumb to be tried by someone in the real world. The downside to a free society is the freedom to do things that everyone agrees is stupid... even yourself in retrospect.

Fire officials in New Bedford, Mass., said a man using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch ended up setting his house on fire, causing up to $30,000 in damage...

Kruger said the man was using a torch hooked up to a 20-pound propane cylinder. He got too close to the building's wood frame and ignited the vinyl siding. The fire quickly spread into the building's second- and third-floor apartments.

The scariest part for me is knowing just how many geeks will read this story and think "I have GOT to try that!"

Mmm... Snow...

Mmm... Snow biking...

I just needed a laugh today

This is why those Spring allergies are worth it

Snow day!

A little post-Christmas cynicism

The view out my window

The view out my window
Originally uploaded by nomad7674.

The snow has arrived!

What the aftermath of a REAL winter storm looks like

I truly love winter. I love snow, I enjoy the ice, and I love the cold. Yeah, I know. What a weirdo. But still, I am amazed by the raw beauty of winter and ice. Check out these photos of an ice storm from Switzerland. If you like the icy images from DR. ZHIVAGO, or the deep-freeze from DAY AFTER TOMORROW, you owe it to yourself to click on over.