Geneva ice storm

[SilverBreeze]

I found this elsewhere: Lake Geneva ice storm.

Extraordinary pictures of wind blown spray off the lake. Some boats sank, others didn't. Scroll forwards and backward on the site. Some are achingly sad and beautiful photos.

 

[bob_tyler]

God, that water looooooks cooooooooooooold

 

[claymore]

I was sitting here full of admiration for those ducks...how come they're not covered in ice?

 

[halcyon]

Or the boats in the background.

Brian

 

[BrendanS]

Lots more amazing photos on this thread from a few days ago
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/659189/an//page//vc/1

 

[tcm]

alps over the weekend

i went skiing with some mates in tignes. fab snow but incredibly cold - french meteo refer to it as the Grand Froid. -30 degrees on some tops at night, never above -10 duing the day tho no wind and cloudless skies at least until monday when we'd gone. Very sad these fine boats have been hit.

 

[BrendanS]

Re: alps over the weekend

Kate lived there as a kid, went to school there etc. Father worked at Cern. Says she'd never seen conditions like that ever. I've camped out in -20 and -30 and while an experience to savour, not fun for most people. I love it though, and would regard Alaska as a place to emigrate to! <g>

I hope the boats are recoverable, there hasn't been much said about that side, but not many peeps from that area on the forum.

 

[tcm]

Re: alps over the weekend

well, fresh water and mostly dayboats so i wd reckon quite few recoverable.

Otherwise of course, regarding the alaska thing, you are a nutter. A very cold nutter, probably the sort who enjoys low-freeboard speedboats and windswept balconies with no heating in january

 

[BrendanS]

Re: alps over the weekend

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A very cold nutter, probably the sort who enjoys low-freeboard speedboats and windswept balconies with no heating in january

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Leave the balcony out of it. It got me Kate <love, hugs, kisses, cos she reads all this crap>

Normandy, Scillies, Channel Islands, Ireland are on club events calendar for this year! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Still, if I emigrated to Alaska, I could post wonderful things about outside temperature, and post incredible pictures of locale by boat?

 

[tcm]

Re: alaska pic

good innit? This is in summer, of course, otherwise it's all black.



































































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[BrendanS]

Re: alaska pic

It gets a bit dark sometimes. No streetlights, so probably have to do something about that - get on local parish council etc