While I recover from several days of intense activities that have made it hard to blog much, and as I prepare some good stuff for you, we can amuse ourselves with the following animations from the usual source of not-so-amusing events:
Three killed, one survivor in Washington avalanche
British couple cheat death in cliff collapse
Swedish man trapped for two months in snow-covered car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVkFc7Kbnj8
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Image: GrrlScientist, 24 November 2008 [larger view].
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