Road Through The Snow

image I seem to have a minor trend going with pictures of cars and snow. This picture here looks slightly suspicious to me because I can't imagine how the snow got so deep on either side of the road, or how they cleared it away so perfectly. But then, I live in Southern California, so I can't claim to be any kind of expert on snow.

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Posted on Thu Apr 21, 2005


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Real--I lived up in Hokkaido for 4 years, and the roads up to the hot spring resorts get like that towards the end of the season. They obviously put a lot of effort into maintaining them (it's a bit of a tourist draw).

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Posted by Jeff  on  Wed Mar 12, 2008  at  02:19 AM
The road is too clean and the "walls" too vertical...it's a fake...
Posted by MagicFaireDust  on  Wed Mar 12, 2008  at  02:35 AM
I was driving over a mountain in Montana last June, and I saw a snowbank nearly that tall, but it was just on one side of the road. There were small sticks sticking thru the snow that marked the edge of the road.
Posted by Esther  on  Tue Apr 01, 2008  at  03:53 PM
It's real--The Japan Times published a similar picture on 18 April 2008 when it announced the opening of the Tateyama-Kurobe Alpen Route.
Posted by Jeff  on  Thu Apr 17, 2008  at  11:58 PM
These are real. I drove through them in Alaska many times! The snow plows have long pipes on the side that blows the snow upward. There aren't exactly dumping grounds for the trucks to take the snow everywhere in AK, so it gets stores on the side. It make a nice mess when it starts to melt. It's real.
Posted by sheryl  on  Fri May 27, 2011  at  02:02 AM
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