File snowfall in Russian far east sows enjoyable, frustration and big drifts

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia, Jan 19 (Reuters) – The greatest snowstorm in 60 years on Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula created huge drifts a number of metres tall that blocked constructing entrances and buried automobiles, in accordance with Reuters visuals and climate monitoring stations.

In some areas greater than 2 m (6.5 ft) of snow has fallen within the first half of January after 3.7 m in December, in accordance with climate monitoring stations.

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Reuters photos confirmed automobiles nearly fully buried in metres of snow and four-wheel drives struggling for traction – or just blocked by nice drifts of snow. Locals had been compelled to dig out paths to the entrances of condo buildings.

“I plan to go on a walk around the city tomorrow, though unfortunately the car has been parked in a snowdrift for a month,” stated Lydmila Moskvicheva, a photographer in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a port metropolis 6,800 km (4,200 miles) east of Moscow.

Video posted on Russian media confirmed locals strolling on snow drifts alongside site visitors lights and nice piles of snow a number of metres tall lining roads.

Some jumped down the drifts for enjoyable.

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