article_snippet: A record has been set for the most snowfall in a day after a tiny Italian village was dumped with 100 inches in 18 hours - forcing residents to ski between houses and climb out of second-floor windows.
article_snippet: Breaking a 1921 record set in Silver Lake, ColoradoColorado, of 76 inches, incredible photos from inside the village show walls of snow carved out from the fronts of doors and shops.
article_snippet: The small village, located east of Rome, received more than 100 inches of snow within 18 hours .
article_snippet: The snowfall set a world record for the most snow to fall within a single day .
article_snippet: According to weather website Meteoweb, it was just one more record in a 'historic winter for Southern Italy, with numerous incidents of frost and snow'.
highlights_snippet: The Italian village of Capracotta was hit with 100 inches of snow in a day .
  
highlights_snippet: The massive blizzard broke a 1921 record set in Silver Lake, Colorado .
  