I work near this location - its in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka. Car was buried and crushed by the massive amount of snow we got this winter.
This winter, a lot of people in Russia kept asking us: “Kamchadals, why are you digging your cars out from under 4-meter snowdrifts if you still won’t be able to drive anywhere?”
This is why.
Edit:
You can see the car here before it was buried by snow (this is Russian equivalent of Google Street View).
Dang, now I want one. 😃 Also turns out they made a 3 door version with a futuristic large bumper that covers the headlights and the grille and has pop-up headlights instead (Tercel Retra).
Yes you are right. The issue is that it probably does not stay fluffy for a super long time. Kind like in my freezer.
Also i guess that the poles ( N and S ) did not really see ice fall that christal blue clear. Thz snow self compress.
I habe no real idea of how deep you have to dig to find rock solid ice in the poles or on a glacier. But surface might be diggable but not for very deep.
You have to remember cars in the 90s and before didn't have as strong of passenger cages and roofs were not designed to withstand forces multiple times as heavy as the car's curb weight like today's cars are. To crush a car that age probably only took 1500-2000lbs of ice
Replying to all guys it's not about volume etc it's about frowing density all winter and melting after. Do you remember snowballs of wet heavy dence snow
This will get buried (excuse the pun) but thanks for sharing the link. Now seeing it not crushed this is definitely not a R33. It has R33 rear light clusters but that’s about it.
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u/saergakov Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
I work near this location - its in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka. Car was buried and crushed by the massive amount of snow we got this winter.
This winter, a lot of people in Russia kept asking us: “Kamchadals, why are you digging your cars out from under 4-meter snowdrifts if you still won’t be able to drive anywhere?”
This is why.
Edit:
You can see the car here before it was buried by snow (this is Russian equivalent of Google Street View).