Dog Kari runs through the snow on the Wurmberg mountain in Braunlage, northern Germany, Sunday Feb. 3, 2013. Weather forecasts predict colder temperatures for the next days. (AP Photo/dpa, Philipp Schulze)
It's not officially winter yet, but for this guy, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Official caption:
Two adorable dogs gambol in the Alps, touching their wet noses and probably cuddling up afterwards around a single mug of hot cocoa (01./02.09.12). Photo: Lukas Barth/dapd
Skiing — or as I like to think of it ever since being pushed down a double-black diamond in middle school, Old Man Winter's broken bone roulette wheel — can be dangerous. Just ask Larry Miller, who, in his 1992 HBO comedy special, Just Words, offers the most succinct advice for anyone considering a skiing trip:…
This ought to set your heart into overdrive: Hope Trott, a 3-year-old from Maine, woke up in the middle of the night on Wednesday and left her house all by herself. She then proceeded to walk a mile in fresh snow to a grocery store, because apparently she thought her mother was inside buying a pizza. It's not clear…
For our sanity's sake, we prefer to think that deadly avalanches only happen on remote mountains on the other side of the world. But really they can happen anywhere, as people in Washington state sadly learned today. Earlier this afternoon, an avalanche occurred in the Cascade Mountains northeast of Seattle and killed…
Though many of us appreciate that there's been little snow shoveling this year and we've yet to step into a puddle and get frigid street slush in our boot, some people aren't so happy about the bizarre lack of snow. Currently only 19% of the country is covered in snow, which is less than half of the average snow cover…
If you had $20,000 to spare, what would you spend it on? A car? Your child's education? Investments? Donations to charities? Maaaybe, but you might also use it to pay to have your yard filled up with fake snow. Yes, that is a real thing! They've been doing it at ski hills for ages, but you can also have a snow machine…
A 23-year-old student who lived on melted snow and candy bars during a 9 day ordeal in remote Arizona says she's thankful to be alive. And that's the last time she house sits at Dakota Fanning's ski chalet.
[Beijing, February 13: A tiger rests in a snow covered enclosure at the Beijing Zoo. Image via AP.]
[Emily writes: "My dogs' snowy puppy faces are the only upside of the ridiculous winter we've been subjected to of late." We love them both, but feel especially close to the grumpy one! Images via the Jezebel mailbox.]
God shat on Chicago this week, blessing us with more than 20 inches of powdery white misery and two days of citywide chaos. In the blizzard's wake is only the misery and claustrophobia known as cabin fever. Suffer with me.
[Massachusetts, February 1: Ilona Chisholm, 13 months, helps her mom shovel snow out of their driveway using a rake. Image via AP.]
In this e-mail posted on Reddit, a professor dismisses Freud's cocaine-fueled writings and promises everyone will receive an A if he freezes to death. This may not be smart, as frostbite fatalities can be easily faked.
[Charlotte, North Carolina, January 10: Brooke Leonnig and her two-year-old daughter Kathryn Haskell sled down a hill in the Plaza Midwood neighborhood. Image via Getty.]
[Kearny, N.J., December 27: Justine Kasztelan, 17, practices winter sports downhill on a street in her neighborhood the morning following a snow storm. Lemons, lemonade! Image via AP.]
Whether you're snowed in or snowed out
After this weekend's Northeast snowpocalypse, you've probably been hearing stories about travelers delayed for hours, even days. So how does shit get so bad that your flight is pushed back a whole week? Allow me to explain, firsthand.
[Germany, December 20: A woman pulls her son to school on a sled on a snow-covered sidewalk in Berlin. Image via Getty.]
[London, November 30: Youngsters sled during snow fall on Hampstead Heath. Almost every corner of Britain woke up to between 2cm and 10cm of fresh snow, with Britain's east coast worst hit by flurries and sub-zero temperatures. Image via AP.]
Elisa Gonzalez and her kids were asked to clothe their Venus de Milo snow sculpture after New Jersey police received complaints. "I thought she looked more objectified and sexualized after you put the bikini on," said Gonzalez. [NJ.com via Newser]
Would you like to be tossed barefoot into an 8-foot snow bank? Then why would you do it to your cat? Hopefully the cat owners featured in these YouTube videos will find a poop in their snow boot. [The Awl]
[Washington, D.C., February 10. Image via Getty]
[Washington, D.C., February 8. Image via Getty]
[New York, January 28. Image via Splash.]
[Munich, January 28. Image via Getty]
