A two-fer of a subject line but just this link to English Russia to see what they are dealing with this winter:
Rostov-on-Don Crazy Blizzard
Rostov on Don (Rostov-na-Donu) is the tenth largest Russian city with a population of more than 1.1 million people. In the last few days people have reported massive snowfalls and blizzards in Rostov. As a result they say "city has gone medieval", with shortages of food, fuel and electricity reported. The locals say cars can't reach Rostov because the highways are closed and covered with snow. Here are some photos from the "sieged" town's daily routines. The shot above demonstrates what an average person can see thru his bottom level window when he wakes up in the morning.
Rostov is about the same latitude as Seattle, WA -- 47.2 v/s 47.6 Three pages of photos. Here are the first two images:
#1) - through the living room door onto the back porch
#2) - through the front door.
The roof rack of the guy's car is just visible through the snowfall. Time to start wearing pajamas, drinking hot chocolate and talking about climate change...