Showing posts with label Siberia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Siberia. Show all posts

Monday, December 22, 2008

GETTING SN...NO, WAIT, IT'S WIND

So that means it's single digit windchills. You think that's cold? You have no idea what cold is.

The forecast for Christmas Day in Ojmjakon? Overcast, high 29 below.

Christmas Eve? 63 below.

Wow. Just...wow.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

THE HONEYMOON RESUMES

If anybody's looking for me later today, I'll be over in the corner blubbering. What a story!
When Anna Kozlov caught sight of the elderly man clambering out of a car in her home village of Borovlyanka in Siberia, she stopped dead in her tracks, convinced her eyes were playing tricks. There, in front of her, was Boris, the man she had fallen in love with and married 60 years earlier. The last time she had seen him was three days after their wedding...

I'm telling you right now before you read the whole thing, go get the Kleenex if you're prone to crying.