Consider the Kamchatka Peninsula, a Russian territory that reaches into the Pacific Ocean north-east of Japan, which has been battling with record amounts of snow this winter. On January 16 alone, a small city on the peninsula’s southern coast, called Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, experienced a baffling five and a half feet of snow, effectively burying local residents and their cars completely. Satellite images highlighted by NASA show the peninsula being buried by snow, turning it into a white snowball that can easily be spotted from space. One fake clip, for instance, shows residents sliding down massive ramps of snow that reach the top of ten-story apartment blocks. More on snow: Meteorologist Warns That Winter Storm Means Trees Are About to Start Exploding