IMPORTED SNOW PILED HIGH: WINTER OLYMPICS OR BUST

Winter Olympics officials will not permit a change in venune even though snow has to be imported, warm temperatures are ruining snow chances on Cypress Mountain, and warm weather is going to stay right through opening night, according to weather forecasters ..

AFP reports,

""We are not relocating any events," said Tim Gayda, the vice-president of organising committee VANOC, responding to the problems caused by the warmest January on record, a legacy of El Nino, a periodic warming feature over the Pacific Ocean "

If they want a last minute switch, a major blizzard just blasted Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Baltimore -- with another one bringing fresh powder this upcoming Tuesday and Wednesday .. Cypress Mountain?? .. try the Appalachian trail in 2010!