Title: Ice, Ice Baby! (Cool and amazing pictures) Post by: BTM on November 11, 2008, 02:33:12 AM I was roaming around Snopes.com, the webpage on various urban legends, when I came across this link to a place over in Lake Geneva, Switzerland that had several pictures of the aftermath of a HUGE ice storm that they had back in January of 2005. Not only was there a ton of icy rain going around, the winds were reaching up to SIXTY miles per hour (110km/hr for our European friends.). Wow! The pictures on the site are amazing, I've posted some of them below...
(http://www.skyandsummit.com/Glacegeneve/Quai%20Versoix%20janv%2005%20(20).jpg) I mean, holy crap, look at that! The ice is freaking THICK! And it's completely encased that car and the nearby bench! Isn't that amazing? (http://www.skyandsummit.com/Glacegeneve/leman-glace07.jpg) Okay here it looks like it's starting to melt a bit, so I'm guessing this was taken a day or two after the storm when the sun was out for awhile but there's still a nice layer of cold going on there.. (http://www.skyandsummit.com/Glacegeneve/leman-glace03.jpg) Yeah, remember what I said about the wind? You can tell from the angle of the icicles which way (and how hard) it was blowing. Anyway, there are a LOT more interesting pictures on the site. I highly recommend anyone who likes photography or such things in general to check it out but clicking here: http://www.skyandsummit.com/Glacegeneve/index.html (http://www.skyandsummit.com/Glacegeneve/index.html). Course, I have to say, as neat as the pictures are, I'm kind of glad I wasn't in that area at the time. I'm starting to shiver a little just by LOOKING at those photos. Title: Re: Ice, Ice Baby! (Cool and amazing pictures) Post by: WilliamWeird1313 on November 11, 2008, 08:33:13 AM http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc12/zombiemoviemaniacs/?action=view¤t=ice-cube-dreams.jpg
Title: Re: Ice, Ice Baby! (Cool and amazing pictures) Post by: BoyScoutKevin on November 11, 2008, 03:22:25 PM Thank you for the pics, BTM. And I hate it, when I have to go out and scrape a thin layer of ice off of the car in the morning. What would I do in their situation? Probably wait for spring thaw.
Title: Re: Ice, Ice Baby! (Cool and amazing pictures) Post by: ghouck on November 11, 2008, 03:46:20 PM [url]http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc12/zombiemoviemaniacs/?action=view¤t=ice-cube-dreams.jpg[/url] Took me a few minutes to get that one, but it's pretty funny. |