I guess we're supposed to believe that these two guys have just dug their car out of the snow. Except that the car looks awfully clean for having been buried in snow. If the picture has been photoshopped, I'm not sure which part of it is fake. Or maybe it's real, in which case how did the car get there?
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It wasn't so bad though... One of the girls in my hall actually shoveled out an entire car before realizing that it wasn't even hers.
It does not matter how the car got clean. The car was not in the hole when it was cleaned. It was moved in on the path which is almost hidden on the left-hand side of the picture.
This is a clever optical illusion picture.
That's it, that's all.
Even factoring in the snow.
When you wipe snow away you are left with a clean surface since snow is water.
When you leave a car outside and there is a snowfall of 1 meter not only will there be snow on the ground but also a meter of snow on top of the car.
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When you look inside of the car you see snow.
If a meter of snow falls it will pile up 1 metre high on top of the car too.
When you wipe of the last bit of snow the surface will be clean (snow is water).
If you dig neatly this is an easy thing to do with no harm to the car.
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The worst one I remember was in 1966. Some of my neighbours dug their cars out even though they couldn't go anywhere because a) they were going to have to dig them out sooner or later anyway, b) snow is easier to shovel when it's fresh, c) they wanted to make sure the plow could see the cars when it did finally come down our street.
I also remember seeing people putting signs in the snow to show that a car was buried underneath. Occasionally the roads would be so bad that nobody but snowmobilers and emergency services (in military troop carriers with tank treads) could get anywhere. You wouldn't want one of those parking on top of your car.
"Why would anyone expend all of that time and energy when you clearly can't drive the car anywhere?"
I've lived in high-snow towns in the Colorado Rockies where it was a city ordinance to dig out - even if you couldn't go anywhere.
It's not amazing to anyone who has lived where it can snow 5' of dry & clean powder snow overnight. That's exactly how you dig it out. I compared this to my own car/storm-of-the-year photos and it looks fine. Add in powder drifting which can put an extra few feet on one car but not the next. Those of you who live below 6000' are assuming it's heavy snow. Think about the existence of snow that is only 5% water (in famous ski resorts) as opposed to, say, 30% on the coasts.
And if you seriously want to duplicate it, snow machines work even in the summer.
I've explained how it was done, not too hard, really.
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next to it buried also. yep it is real.....
The snowbank in front could have been photoshopped in but I think it could also be that the picture was taken from across the street. If the street is narrow and the snow that deep, a picture taken from that angle could make it appear that the street is not even there.
Since the edges are so clean I don't believe the hole was made with humans with shovels unless they were trying to be really artistic.
So I believe the area was cleared by a machine, a car was parked there, and a photo taken from across the road of the car and 2 guys with a shovel.