Sentences with phrase «helicopter in a snowstorm»

Laboratory science has its usual pitfalls, and now add these: low temperature and high wind, reagents that never made it to Antarctica, unpredictable weather conditions that delay or cut short trips to your test site because it's dangerous to fly a helicopter in a snowstorm, Weddell seals that won't let you fish in your fishing hole, the unavoidable distraction presented by a troop of curious penguins, and... well, you get the picture.

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In perhaps the most harrowing indignity for the plutocrats who have made the World Economic Forum their favorite winter meeting ground, even the town's helicopter pad was closed because of the snowstorm.