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| There seems to be a bit of snow on the ground at the moment in the Austrian Alps. Photo via Twitter by Pipp Ionguere/La Meteo |
Things have picked up somewhat now in January, and now there's a decent, but not spectacular snow cover in most places in the Green Mountain State.
Some areas along the western slopes of the Green Mountains have picked up as much as 18 inches of snow in the past couple of days.
However, if you like ridiculous amounts of snow, though, head to Europe. It's absolutely crazy.
Wild amounts of snow- feet of it in some places - have fallen there in the past couple of weeks, and it does look pretty amazing. Even wilder, several more feet of snow might come down there in the coming days.
There's videos at the bottom of this post.
It looks amazing, especially in the Alps, but as you might imagine, three to seven or more feet of snow is dangerous, especially if it all comes within a week or so.
At least 17 people have died in the snow and storms in and near Austria, and hundreds of people were stranded. One Austrian ski resort reported seven feet of new snow in just seven days.
Try to shovel that out!
Some of the dead were avalanche victims. Another person was killed when heavy snow broke branches. The snow and branches fell on a man, killing him.
About 600 people were stranded in an Austrian village when the area became cut off due to snow-blocked roads. A few hundred other people were trapped on a train for hours because a snow-laen tree fell onto tracks near Kitzbuehel, Austria, The Weather Channel reported.
The snow created the highest avalanche danger since at least 1999, authorities said. An additional four feet of snow might fall in the mountains during the rest of this week, forecasters said.
The snow extended pretty far south. It snarled traffic in the higher elevations of Lebanon this week. Athens, Greece was also pretty much shut down by the snow.
Here's a BBC report of the situation in Austria:
Here's another pretty wild news report:
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