Back in the 19th century, the infamous Donner Party was trapped in 22-foot drifts in the area, and found themselves resorting to creative methods of survival; today, visitors to Tahoe are thankfully hungry mostly for good powder.
Whatever message Mr. Forster's rich, troubling film wants to deliver is, thankfully, submerged in details of character and place.
The gulf between the school-age West Ravenel of whom Phoebe had heard such horrific tales and the funny, generous, thoughtful man she comes to know is, thankfully, reconciled without any illogically hoarded secrets or overwrought reveals.
James Hansen who Al's congressional hearings catapulted to fame is thankfully no longer at NASA, but is still scoring lucrative talking gigs in between routine arrests at Keystone XL Pipeline protest rallies.
I work from home, but with no children to ferry to school I am thankfully spared the judgements of Ms Chisolm and her ilk.
Eradicating measles is seen to be a feasible goal, and the days of being dragged round to someone's house to get infected are thankfully over.
Deaths linked to nitrous oxide are thankfully rare but an exploding canister is believed to have been the cause of a "major injury" at Glastonbury last year.
To experience Nicholson curiously examining a joint or declaiming on everything from UFOs to New Orleans hookers is thankfully as much a pleasure as it ever was.
Our own welcome to the village was, thankfully, somewhat warmer.
