"All my life when I heard about the Pale of Settlement, I imagined snow falling softly, perpetually, on Jewish villages, once upon a time".
Both topography and meteorology control snow avalanching around Svalbard's main settlement Longyearbyen in the High Arctic.
And best of all, a pre-barbecue dinner and auction of work from the likes of Matthew Barney, Jeff Koons, Nate Lowman, and Barry McGee raised over $1 Million to benefit the Dash Snow Initiative for the Henry Street Settlement.
Hutchinson, her children, and others accompanying her travelled for more than six days by foot in the April snow to get from Boston to Roger Williams' settlement at Providence.
The Middle East experienced terrible rain and snow storms last year, which destroyed tents and flooded settlements.
A bust of Lenin glares down over the settlement, his face half-covered in snow.
Image classification resulted into 8 land/use land/cover classes namely, dense vegetation, sparse vegetation, lake, drainage, settlement, cloud-cover, fallow/barren land, and snow cover (Figure 3).
With the first good snow and freezing temperatures comes the freedom to connect to other settlements and traverse the land and frozen rivers in almost any direction.
At one point we passed an old Russian mining settlement, its abandoned buildings standing forlorn against the snow.
The ice forced road closures in Longyearbyen, Svalbard's largest settlement, and caused a so-called slush avalanche consisting of snow, ice, and slush that destroyed a pedestrian bridge.
