PHOTOS: Italian Village Gets 8 Feet Of Snow In 24 Hours — huffingtonpost.com

Snow news is good news, unless you live in Capracotta. The Italian village may have just set a record for the most snow ever to fall in 24 hours. A storm on March 5 dumped just over 100.8 inches (or 8 feet, 4 inches) of snow there in 18 hours, reports the Italian weather website Meteoweb. The snowfall inundated the city and left some in the region without power and water. "It was a spectacle that took our breath away. In some parts of the village the snow was like a long white wall," village mayor Antonio Monaco told the Italian news agency ANSA, as translated to English by the Telegraph.

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