Moscow To Ban Snow

The Moscow Times:

Moscow will blast clouds from the sky this winter to save money on snow removal, a city official said Wednesday, but the plan threatens to anger the surrounding region, which would have to cope with the extra powder.

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Comments

[nexxtep54]

09:40 PM on 10/18/2009

Ever read a story and thought : ...something bad is gonna' happen if they do this?

[kareemachan]

10:49 AM on 10/17/2009

I thought for sure this was from The Onion...

[GrahamInCanada]

09:53 PM on 10/16/2009

You should see the dance of the machines here in winter cities such as Ottawa or Quebec City (Not Vancouver or Toronto).

It is absolutely incredible to watch as our cities unleash midnight armies with building sized machines to dance around and remove all the snow so we can all make it into work.

Shucks, I thought this article might give some new ideas. But it seems that some graft that usually only goes to airplane owners in the summer will be extended into the winter, as well...

[LetMeUnderstandThis]

01:30 PM on 10/16/2009

Now we know who to blame for the Global Warming!

[BorisPutinov]

07:37 AM on 10/16/2009

Tovarich.
They are becoming ' soft ' in Moskva.
Complaining about the little bit of snow they get each year.
My hometown of Jakutsk in the warehouse ( Siberia ) gets 4 or 5 times as much.
Besides, with Global Warming all of our weather misseries will be solved in a few years.
In the mean time, let us keep enjoying our Vodka and making love to increase our population.

Boris

[KIVPossum]

07:50 AM on 10/16/2009

What's not to like about vodka and making love with Russian women? Who cares about snow, right?

[MosheDayanHero]

11:30 PM on 10/16/2009

Hey Amricna village moroon, your heavy handed faux Russian ldiocy is getting old.
Buzz off.

[BorisPutinov]

12:07 PM on 10/17/2009

Tovarich.
Every year I go back to Jakutsk in December for the Holidays ( I live in Leningrad ).
I would like to invite you to visit me ( all expences paid, of course ) to go hunting inSiberia.
It will be an unforgetable experience that will make a man out of you.
You will then be able to tell your grandchildren in the promised land that you went hunting and partying in Siberia with the great Boris of Jakutsk.

Boris

[IlooklikeGeorgeWyner]

10:15 PM on 10/15/2009

Oh, these are just the drunken ramblings of someone who’s just partaken of the debauchery that is, “Moscow’s Best Kept Yard”ceremony.

[InTheSouth]

09:16 PM on 10/15/2009

Why don't they just move Moscow to a warmer climate? Build a series of domes over the city?

[minimalist syntax]

02:19 PM on 10/17/2009

They have kind of done this in Minneapolis. During winter you can move around underground through a series of tunnels both in the Down Town area and at the University, which has a very large campus.

[EmeraldWorld]

04:34 PM on 10/15/2009

LOL

[ohiomark]

02:30 PM on 10/15/2009

Who do the Russians think they are by trying to control the weather? Al Gore?

[KIVPossum]

01:33 PM on 10/15/2009

Fundamentalists say hell is fire and brimstone. Bull...Hell is Moscow in February.