Liankacreations

  “The asphalt washed away again, along with the snow”, “The patches simply "melted away" - Russian jokes about roads in spring. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?   I read online that some of the streets in Tomsk look just like our Hawthorn street, Elm street, you name it. However I have to admit streets in New Bedford are getting patched.  In Tomsk, the post-winter cleaning of sidewalks has begun. Over the cold season, 35,000 tons of sand-and-salt mixture were spread on the city streets. According to the city administration, Mayor Dmitry Makhinya has issued instructions to promptly collect the sand deposited on sidewalks and roads over the winter, before the spring winds begin and the snow melts. It is worth noting that the dust storm season in Tomsk typically begins in late April or early May, when the snow has completely (or nearly) melted and dry weather sets in. Do you remember my photos from a previous blog ? Well, in the outskirts of the city there is a lot of snow alon...