Istanbul in the snow

This is what the campus looked like from Rasmus's balcony. The city itself seemed less of a snowy wilderness in last evening's TV news. But the snow had reached upto hip height in my our rear balcony, and the doors to the balcony couldn't be opened. This was the heaviest snowfall we had ever seen, but Rasmus said it was not unusual in his native Denmark, or in Norway where he has also lived.