Controlling the Weather in Moscow

I cracked up when I read this headline...

Moscow Mayor Promises a Winter Without Snow

Yup! The mayor of Moscow has a plan to seed the clouds with cement powder, dry ice, or silver iodine, so that the snow falls OUTSIDE of the city limits of Moscow. They did something similar in St. Petersburg for big celebration days (like Victory Day).

In any case, the Moscow City Council gave the go-ahead, and now the only obstacle to implementing this plan are the environmentalists and residents of the towns outside Moscow which would get not only their normal amount of snowfall, but Moscow's as well.

I think that suburban Muscovites are in for a lot of shoveling this year...