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Dramatic airborne avalanche hits Grindelwald, Switzerland (video)
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Yesterday afternoon, bright sunshine in the Swiss resort Grindelwald was broken by the 'Wäxellouwina' - a known phenomenon when an airborne avalanche (massive cloud of snow particles) breaks from the high mountains and hits the town.

"The whole thing took about three to five minutes," said Sascha B. "Then everything was covered in the area, plates, cups, tables, chairs with a centimeter thick layer of snow." Video + report (in German) from Blick.ch

http://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/bern/naturspektakel-in-grindelwald-be-blick-ch-leser-von-staublawine-verschluckt-id3569650.html

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Breaking news, another sensationalist headline to a meh story that is so much like bad sex.
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Breaking news, another sensationalist headline to a meh story that is so much like bad sex.




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Then everything was covered in the area, plates, cups, tables, chairs with a centimeter thick layer


It's a nightmare when it gets on the plates, ewww Shocked

or are you saying 5 mins is bad.. Cool
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I hope the alfresco diners were wearing transceivers and carrying probes and shovels.

Some people go to lunch so unprepared. Will they never learn?
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As above, the 'Wäxellouwina' is a known phenomenon of that valley. Swiss Radio Meteo has a bit more about it ...

http://www.srf.ch/meteo/meteo-news/waexellouwina-bei-grindelwald

The prevailing avalanche risk was level 1, and it's reckoned that the trigger is an ice fall or landslide. It presents little danger in the town, because most of the airborne material lands higher in the valley, and the 'pressure wave' (usually highly destructive in this form of avalanche) is light.

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Now that the glacier has retreated , the canyon is deeper and the avalanche is decelerated more.
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