sastruga: /sas-trü-guh/
a wavelike ridge of hard snow formed by the wind —usually used in plural
how to use in casual conversation:
"......she wasn't watching where he was going and them 'BAM' she walks right into a sastruga"
not to be confused with:
beluga
how it makes me feel:
i like it. sastruga! it's strong word. like bear. according to MW, it's technically of german descent but was borrowed from russian. hence the "strong like bear" thing. stay with me here people....
it also makes me think of snow. they kept telling us it was going to snow in seattle, but it was always tomorrow. and then you’d check the forecast on the next day and they’d change it to tomorrow. now it’s in the high 40’s and although it’s been pouring the chances of snow have evaporated completely. damn you el nino. and i know that some of my fellow seattleites will say dumb things like "oh no pony, don't wish for snow, that was terrible waaah waaaah waaaaaah" to which i say "eat it!". some of us made the best of snowpocalypse 08' and didn't take it as an opportunity to whine about everything. i enjoyed sledding on corrugated plastic signs. i enjoyed learning that converse and snow are a terrible mix. and for some reason there was only one day where i had trouble with the bus system even though it seems to screw everyone else.
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There was a quite lost beluga
ReplyDeleteBeached herself in a sastruga
She shook off frozen kelp
And solicited help
With a horn that went "ah-OOO-gah!"
I'm from Minnesooota, dontcha know, and I've never even heard of a sastruga. Uff da! But I've seen those big walls of snow that are created by the wind. We just call them walls of snow. Snow + wind = windchill. We don't like it. You can have our snow this year if you want.
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