Friday Fun, Tuesday edition: Blowin' snow, or, White Christmases for everybody!
There are rainmakers, and there are snow makers.
Dan Cushing of High Point makes snow, using a snow maker he made. (Got that?) I wrote a bit about it for today's paper. The excellent photo is by Allison Money, one of our fairly new part-timers. She also tipped the newsroom to this story.
After the story ran today, a reader e-mailed to find out how Dan built his machine. I don't give sources' contact info out, so I called Dan to tell him how to get in touch with that reader if he wanted to. During the course of that conversation -- a much less harried one than we had on deadline Monday -- he mentioned that this snow-making gig is quite the hobby these days.
Hmm, I thought. There's been one white Christmas here in my 20 years in town. I'm betting this is news readers could use.
Dan e-mailed me this link to a Yahoo! group on snow making: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Snowcentral/
He cautions that there is a fair amount of off-topic material, but he says the on-topic stuff is very good.
He also suggested a commercial site, SnowatHome.com. I am not mechanical, as we say of the non-engineers in my family, so I would not necessarily know how to evaluate the site. Thus, all the usual disclaimers apply and probably some others I haven't yet thought of.
Finally, Dan said he'd try to dig up the plans from which he built his machine and send them along. If he does, I'll post them as well.
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But can it fly? ;-)
Posted on February 14, 2007 2:16 PM
My wife's cousin did the same thing in Huntsville, Alabama and was featured on one of the local newscasts. Blogged about it here. He and all his brothers are engineers and make me feel like a rank idiot at their annual family reunion each Thanksgiving. They're cool guys, I'm just insecure about my absolute lack of ability in all things, practical, useful or mechanical.
Posted on February 14, 2007 3:03 PM