Snow snow thick thick snow: Olympics
The Lillehammer Olympic workforce has shifted so much snow from the Games town that it has filled a quarry and they have had had to start dumping in a new one. A week before the Games start, workers are running 16 trucks an hour each night to shift snow. Terje Larssen, one of the snow clearers, said the quarry was used every winter by Lillehammer and surrounding areas. 'But this is the first time it has been full,' he said.
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