Going Broke from Lack of Snow

(((That's because it's snowing all over the palms and orange trees here in southern Italy, causing the local airport to close and screwing up my incessant BEYOND THE BEYOND
travel agenda. With any luck, I'll be forging north across the slushy, snow-stricken landscape by car and train.
Italian trains... oh yeah, I've been on some of those...
they're national miracles of synchronized efficiency!)))

Link: Lack of snow forces Scottish resort into liquidation - Independent Online Edition > This Britain.

Lack of snow forces Scottish resort into liquidation

By Andy McSmith

Published: 13 December 2007

Scotland's oldest ski resort has been hit by its second avalanche of financial problems in less than four years, because there is a shortage of snow.

Liquidators appointed this week at the 494-acre Glencoe Mountain Resort on the Meall A'Bhuiridh massif say their first priority is to safeguard the business for customers.

Climatologists warn that a snow-capped mountain is becoming an increasingly rare sight all around the world. One prediction is that in less than 50 years, snow on a British mountain peak will be so rare that there will be no ski resorts left in the country, except those that use artificial snow.

In places such as the Alps, it is expected that skiers will have to climb 5,000 feet above sea level – higher than Britain's highest peak – to find a reliable ski slope....

(((And wait till the cities downstream realize there's no water coming from that nonexistent snow.)))