But the timing of the snowfall — on the eve of the World Economic Forum’s annual conference — has had an outsize impact. Head-high snow drifts quickly piled up along the roads, leaving no place for street plows to push more snow. This year, the World Economic Forum’s luck seems to have run out. That throngs of uber-wealthy conference goers and their entourages were trying to push their way toward Davos did not help. In perhaps the most harrowing indignity for the plutocrats who have made the World Economic Forum their favourite winter meeting ground, even the town’s helicopter pad was closed because of the snowstorm.

Source: thestar January 23, 2018 19:52 UTC