At one point in the story, the North Pole is hit by a violent snowstorm called the “Black Arctic Snow.” Did you have a real life experience with such a storm?
Two actually. As a kid growing up in Ohio, I particularly remember the blizzard of 1977. It snowed a lot in those days, and after this one spectacular snowstorm, the snow measured higher than 2 feet deep. School shut down for nearly 2 weeks, and we kids played outside until we were blue in the face! My hands ached from shoveling our sidewalks and driveway, and high winds in our area created snowdrifts that completely covered a few of our rural one-story houses. We even rode our snowmobile over the rooftop of a house buried in a snowdrift below us. Now that was a snowstorm. My other “black arctic snowstorm” occurred in 1998. I’d traveled to Iceland with my family and we we’re ending our last day on the trip by warming up in a bubbling hot pool of geothermal water known as “The Blue Lagoon.” It’s a world famous place to visit both for its scenic beauty and the water’s curative powers. As we looked out beyond the North-Atlantic Ocean’s horizon, we saw a massive black wall of weather that
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