Thumbs up for Snow management in Finland

[Maarten Otto]

While the Dutch keep their name high up on water management.... I put my thumbs up for Helsinki to keep the airport open at - what we call, severe weather conditions -.... 5 Cm of snow and the whole of Europe comes to a complete standstill... If I were a Fin, I sertainly would laugh my Ass off.... unfortunatly thei prime minister doesn't...

Enjoy: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1351611/406c1e42/helsinki_s_battle_with_the_snow.flv.html

[Sami]

yea well... we got snow.. and I mean S-N-O-W. Just had another 15-20cm more in one day in tuesday I guess it was...

Actual "live" pic from our yard (that metal thingy seen in the middle is about 2m high).

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[Maarten Otto]

Next year an Airwaysim snow fight anyone? 

[Zabuti]

Use your engines as snow blower ! :-)

First person with planes fully covered by snow is out :-)

[zorbon]

Man it was sooo cold here today... Highs were only 18C, bout froze my tooshy off 

[Talentz]

Wow... I guess my .2 inch of snow last week is nothing eh? lol!! Here I was thinking "should I go to work?"


Then again, snow in my part of the globe is such a rare event. Alot of people think the worlds going to end when we get snow... haha 



Talentz

[TFC1]

Well, Norway is doing ok too. ENGM is completely cleared in 1 hour, it takes about 15 minutes to do one runway....

And talking of cold weather, I live about 40kms southwest of Oslo, and woke to -24 degrees C this morning....*shiver*

[JumboShrimp]

In my part of the world (New York City) when it snows, it usually melts within a week.  This year, Central Park has snow since December 26th - that's 6+ weeks.  Probably a record...

[Maarten Otto]

Well, Norway is doing ok too. ENGM is completely cleared in 1 hour, it takes about 15 minutes to do one runway....

And talking of cold weather, I live about 40kms southwest of Oslo, and woke to -24 degrees C this morning....*shiver*

Here... near the equator  it is 8 degrees C today.