On the day we arrived, several inches of old snow glistened on the ground.
All that new snow was weakly attached to the old snow crust, making it more unstable, Kramer said.
Tall, ponytailed, absurdly young, pushing a stroller past stripped cars and broken beer bottles and barfed-upon old snow, she might have been carrying all the hours of her day in the string bags that hung from her stroller.
We rented our snowshoes at the Old Faithful Snow Lodge and headed out on our own.
She also at one point dons an unflattering old Disney-inspired Snow White costume and insists her friends dress as dwarfs to complement it.
In Poughkeepsie, New York, an 18-year-old woman lost control of her car in the falling snow and struck a 74-year-old man walking near the side of the road, police said.
Portland, Maine, got a record 31.9 inches of snow, smashing the old record by nearly 5 inches.
If the snow is the right kind (hard and old but not too old), you can dig out a cave or a trench, or even carve out blocks of snow with a ski-pole, machete or a stick.
Further on, I find 75-year-old Yae Nomura and her husband shovelling snow off their roof.
Also over the weekend, a 54-year-old man and a 76-year-old man were found collapsed in the snow in another part of Hokkaido, and both were confirmed dead, it said.
But the end result, devotees say, is worth it: nine spacious suites with heated floors and high ceilings and verdant 150-year-old vineyards surrounded by a view of snow-capped mountain peaks.
And a 58-year-old man apparently suffered a medical problem while removing snow from his car at a senior citizens' apartment complex in Selden on Long Island.
On Thursday, a 70-year-old man died when his Range Rover left a snow-covered private road and turned over in the grounds of Ravensthorpe Manor near Thirsk, in North Yorkshire.
BBC: Satellite image of UK under snow - University of Dundee
At least nine people were killed in accidents related to the storm, including five in Connecticut, two in Canada, one in New York and one in Massachusetts -- a 14-year-old Boston boy who was helping his father shovel snow.
Naykary Silva, a 26-year-old Mexican woman in the country illegally, joined about 200 people who marched in Denver's spring snow, hoping for legislation that would ensure medical care for her 3-year-old autistic son.
About an hour later, I was part of the mass movement of students going in opposite directions, in wind-whipped snow, two roughly parallel columns moving from old campus to new and vice versa, faces in ski masks, bodies shouldering into the wind or pushed along by it.
Skis were widely utilized in Central Asia and Europe, while snowshoes were common in the New World - probably because snow was more compact and less soft in the Old World, theorizes Huntford.
If there is one hazard of a brutish New York Cinderella in the semifinals, it's the inevitable attention they will suck away not only from the formidable Steelers, but also a delicious Chicago-Green Bay NFC Championship the latter a matchup so classic and old-school it should be played in two feet of snow and broadcast in black and white.
We snow-shoed past bubbling, steamy waters and watched Old Faithful go off a second time.
In a village a little further down the mountain I come across 77-year-old Masanori Sato, standing on the roof of his house, shovelling snow.
Her snow boots kicked off, the petite 33-year-old expert on the Internet and youth is wearing a loose tan sweater, dangly silver jewelry and a trademark fuzzy hat that resembles the ears of a white Pomeranian puppy.
Although he was only six years old, he had gone to Birmingham last winter and there he had seen snow.
An 18-year old woman from Paignton had to be rescued from Dartmoor after being trapped in the snow for three hours.
We do funerals nicely here, elegies and memorials, "celebrations of life, " we call them, whether it's a ninety year old math professor in a nursing home or an unlucky student drunkenly falling into a snow bank or tumbling down an elevator shaft.
Sauntering across endless prairies, with snow-speckled mountains in the distance, was profoundly peaceful, and the old-fashioned physical work remarkably satisfying.
In a windswept, snow-dusted forest clearing, three siblings bury their eight-month-old brother.
Since then, Mr Snow points out, donors have repeatedly lent poor countries fresh money to help repay old loans gone sour.
Hardy's 14-year old daughter, Asia Billingsly, didn't mind missing school to stand out in the snow and cold and take in the momentous occasion.
As we all know, the Queen is hung up on what her mirror tells her about getting old -- she can't bear being eclipsed in the beauty stakes by her stepdaughter Snow (Lily Collins, Phil's daughter).
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