She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

The wing and part of the tail came off and hit a tree and a wooden hut, the plane spinning along the snow until coming to a halt.

Bombardier's technological breakthrough in the design of bush vehicles came in the mid-1930s when he developed a drive system that revolutionized travel in snow and swampy conditions.

The population of polar bears are locally recovering from the major culls of the 1960s and 1970s that came about due to the availability of snow scooters ; however, the Polar bear remains threatened at a global level, due to unsustainable levels of killing by humans and due to marine water pollution.

Not long after he came snow fell six inches deep.

When the 66 settlers from Wales came the land was covered in a blanket of snow, hence the name Gwynedd.

These tickets were obtained free of charge due to an agreement with the Toronto Maple Leafs ' management claiming that if these soldiers had not came out to shovel the snow, then the Leafs game that day wouldn't have had as many people attending.

Construction was simple: a few trees had to be chopped down and when the snow came, branches were laid where the jump was to be.

Although the tomcat was already in use for another O ' Reilly title, his wish to see an animal cover eventually came true when O ' Reilly published their Tomcat book with a snow leopard on the cover .< ref >

Wins against Pittsburgh, Michigan, Houston, at Washington, and San Antonio came in rainy conditions, and a win against Chicago came in a Chicago snow storm.

But a storm came during their ascent, bringing two meters of snow to Breuil-Cervinia and Zermatt, and their accomplishment turned bitter when one of the climbers died during the descent.

The game was played in heavy snow at White Hart Lane, and although County lost 4 – 1 their goal came from an incredible 35-yard effort by Ken Hollyman.

On 6 November, they came insight of the snow covered Australian Alps.

The snow cracked behind him and an avalanche came down, catching him at its end: Fleming remembered the incident and it was used for Bond's escape from Piz Gloria.

The book does not tell precisely how the protagonist came to wake up a century and a half after being killed in a car accident, and find himself wandering in the snow in the body of a denizen of the future who had had enough of life and chose to commit suicide.

These volunteers were part of a larger effort of citizens taking care of each other for days, awaiting rescue by National Guard units from the Carolinas who came equipped with front-loaders large enough to begin moving snow off the streets of Providence.

Some patients fail to find any apparent causative illness or event in their lives, instead saying the snow came out of nowhere or has been with them for their whole life.

His success in getting the mail through during the snow blockage of 1870, came to the attention of upper management.

A crew and rotary snowplow were working to clear a snow slide when a second slide from the opposite side of the valley came down, killing 62 men.

However, after the snow melted, gendarmes came to the town constantly, searching for deserters.

Since the CJ-2A was primarily intended for farming, ranching, and industrial applications, a wide variety of extras were available such as: rear seat, center rear-view mirror ( Stock CJ-2As came with only a driver side mirror ), front passenger seat ( Stock CJ-2As only came with a driver seat ), canvas top, front PTO, rear PTO, belt pulley drive, capstan winch, governor, rear hydraulic lift, snow plow, welder, generator, mower, disc, front bumper weight, heavy-duty springs, dual vacuum windshield wipers ( stock CJ-2As were equipped with a manual wiper on the passenger side and a vacuum wiper on the driver side ), dual taillights ( Stock CJ-2As had a taillight on the driver side and a reflector on the passenger side ), hot-climate radiator, driveshaft guards, heater, side steps, and radiator brush guard.

The El Niño winter of 2006 / 2007 was unusually mild in Europe, and the Alps recorded very little snow coverage that season.

And those pathetic little patches of sludgy snow were shining white.

However, because they emit little heat, ice and snow may build up on the LED luminaire in colder climates.

In areas that normally have very little or no snow, a snow day may occur when there is only light accumulation or even the threat of snowfall, since those areas are unprepared to handle any amount of snow.

While there is little or no water on Venus, there is a phenomenon which is quite similar to snow.

Most of Provence has a Mediterranean climate, characterized by hot, dry summers, mild winters, little snow, and abundant sunshine.

On January 5 and 6, 2008, after years of relatively little snow, a wave of heavy snow and low temperatures covered the city in a thick layer of snow and ice, forcing the Council of Ministers to officially declare a state of emergency and closing down the capital on January 6 and 7.

In temperatures below, there is little free water in the snow, which leads to crumbly snowballs.

Most of these paintings depict strong light and fair weather ; he showed little interest in snow or rain scenes, or in seasonal color changes.

For example, there is little problem in calculating the weight of the snow, which provides information about the load on a weak layer.

As very little snow remains on rocks angled more than 60 °, this is soon removed by the wind, some steep masses of rock remain bare even near the summits of the highest peaks, but as almost every spot offering the least hold for vegetation is covered with snow, few flowering plants are seen above 3350 m ( 11, 000 ft ).

There is little precipitation, mostly snow.

Page has an arid climate ( Köppen BWk ) with hot, very dry summers and chilly winters with very little snow.

During the Great Depression the Ski Club had financial setbacks ; combined with little snow, the club looked to sell the tower.

The winters often fall below freezing for extended periods, however snow remains unusual due to very little precipitation forming in the winter months.

This city experiences very little snowfall, however, on receiving on average a total of of snow.

Snowfall is unpredictable, with some winters experiencing little or no measureable snow and others characterized by occasional ice storms with small accumulations of snow and ice.

In years of little snow, the falls may actually cease flowing altogether in late summer or fall.

All units ran much faster than the original TRS-80, at 4 MHz, ( with a software selectable throttle to the original speed for compatibility purposes ) and the display supported upper and lower case, hardware snow suppression ( video ram bus arbitration logic ), and an improved character font set.

Sliding on ice makes Tux go faster, while sliding on snow allows for more maneuverability and sliding on rocky patches will slow Tux down.

Runner sleds are typically faster once the snow has compacted or turned icy.

These new graphics processing units provided texture mapping, antialiasing, particle effects ( i. e. fog, rain and snow ), HDR and the capability to perform polygonal calculations faster, while taking the load off of the main processor.

While snowshoes can also address the hiker's tendency to sink in snow, the fit ski tourer can cover far longer distances because the downhill sections are skied much faster than they could be hiked or snowshoed.

The reason larger skis generally move faster is because the weight is spread out and less force is applied per unit of snow, allowing the skis to glide on the thin water coating on the top of the snow.

Existing structures such as the walls or concave corners of a building can be used as part of the snow fort, allowing for faster and easier construction.

Consequently, snow, river water, and rainwater, all of which are recently evaporated ocean water, tend to be enriched in the lighter isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen, causing water to evaporate faster.

These thinned canopies also cause faster snow melt by allowing more sunlight through to the forest floor and lowering the snowpack albedo, as a result of needle litter on the snow surface.

Some powder boards have a swallow tail design which allows the tail to sink easier which in turn keeps the nose up and some have pintails which make the board faster edge to edge in deep snow.

Snow contaminated with dust melts significantly faster than snow without dust.