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Friday, December 17, 2010

10 Cities snowy in America... beam! (Gadling)

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feeds) on December 2010 17th at 9 H 0010 snowiest cities in America

I spend all summer fantasize about winter. The end of May to the beginning of October, I wind up to quench sweat, wishing that I could take off my own skin and execution of an air conditioned environment to another. He is miserable. When the biting winter season cold hits, I embrace the, finally able to be a little uncomfortable when I'm outside. Add a bit of snow to the equation, and the result is positively heavenly.

Then, when I saw list of The Weather Channel snowy cities to the United States, my mind wandered immediately in cold places where I hop on a sled (which I prefer skis or snowboards), for a large, smoky warm chocolate cup and projecting randomly bystanders snowballs.

You are in that sort of thing? In addition, you probably want to dash off at one of the 10 cities snowy in the country! Where you ask the question, they are.

1. Valdez, Alaska: The Weather Channel pointed out that the city gets 297.7 inches of snow a year, with 180, entering only a month. If you go to the second snowy city in the country, the annual average is six feet lower than in Valdez. Slackers.

2 Boonville, New York: just Boonville resembles a snowy place. With 220,5 inches per year, this town in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains is called the "Eastern capital Snow" and a powder to back up this claim.

3 Hancock, Michigan: in December, 56 inches of snow is dumped on Hancock, with another 68 inches suite in January. The city average 218 inches per year and once vanté two feet of wet snow on 2 June. This is my kind of place!

4 Crested Butte, Colorado: from November to March, you can expect at least 30 inches of snow fall every month, with an annual average of 217.7 inches. If you like the snow to wrap your barbecue feast of labour, it is the location - you can also find snow falling until the end of June.

5 Truckee, California: to the end of the 19th century, Truckee bastonné storm with 10 feet of snow during two days. Since then, the elements have been merciful, if you call annual average snowfall of 198.3 merciful inches. Do the math on this subject.

6 Lead, South Dakota: storms abandonment of more than 10 centimetres of snow reaches at least three times per year in this city, which 187 cm of snow per year on average.

7 Steamboat Springs, Colorado: for 97 days per year, you can expect this mile - high city to have at least 10 cm of snow on the ground. Annual average snowfall of 175.5 inches is nothing to sneeze at.

8 Red Lodge, Montana: there years which has little snowfall in just two months - it is what it takes to mark an annual average of 173.9 inches. And snow lingers: there is at least one inch on the ground 127 days per year.

9 Tahoe City, California: starts snow falls in November, but when this is the case, it is paléolithiques. Tahoe City 170.8 inches per year on average.

10 Wooden railway, Michigan: this city has a slightly pornographic name and a hell of a lot of snow. Ironwood 164.6 inches of snow a year on average, and is a hotspot for wintersports, depending on The Weather Channel.

[photo by bsabarnowl via Flickr]

Filed under: North America to United States, news

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Women win (a little) cruise ship captains (Gadling) ground

by Chris Owen (RSS feeds) on December 2010 9th at 3 H 30

women cruise ship captainsIt is not the master of the first lady of a cruise ship, but when Inger Klein Olsen (photo) took the head of the Cunard Line Queen Victoria on 15 December, she will join a small group of women in male-dominated occupation.

"While we are far from being the first shipping company to have a female captain, should nonetheless when a British institution like Cunard long made a break with the tradition of the harbour master's Office," said Peter Shanks, President of Cunard line.

43 year-old captain Olsen joined Cunard in 1997 as first officer aboard of Caronia line and was then transferred to the fleet Seabourn in 2001, sailing on Seabourn Sun and Seabourn Spirit to be promoted to captain on Seabourn Pride staff in 2003.

Female cruise ship captains are rare.

The very first worlds female master of a ship cruise line major has been Karin Stahre-Janson return in 2007 on Royal Caribbean seas monarch. Since that time, a few other women have been appointed master of a ship on a number of lines.

Earlier this year, Sarah Breton became the first female British vessel P & O Cruises master in the history of the company year 173.

"But as Mark Twain observed curtly,"people of Cunard will appoint Noah itself as Captain until he had worked his way ranks."" "Inger has certainly done that"Shanks continued", and we are delighted to welcome her as our first woman pilot".

Photo courtesy of Cunard Line

Filed under: United Kingdom, cruises