snow what? coming tommorrow...Toby snow footage.

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Ah the snow; it is a funny thing...and many a historical moment was affected by said fluffy white stuff, such as:

Snow skiing dates back more than 6000 years...in Russia where the oldest set of skis were found. Written references come from Northern China, around 200 B.C.
Clumsy Carp and the Skinny Chick used skis to escape from rampant dinosaurs before the wheel was invented.
'In the early 1900s, skiers created their own terminology to describe types of snow, including the terms "fluffy snow," "powder snow," and "sticky snow." Later, the terminology expanded to include descriptive terms such as "champagne powder," "corduroy," and "mashed potatoes."'--from nsidc.org

George Washington crossed the Delaware River on 12-25-1776, mostly because of the blinding snow. Not far away the Delaware Memorial Bridge was open to foot traffic, but in retrieving mittens from coat the general spilled his change purse, so in any case wouldn't have been able to pay the toll.

Here is some Wild History on the snowman. Seems he started out innocently enough but eventually turned to drinking and smoking and eventually becoming “a tipsy snowman chasing a girl with a stick”...Oh, and then Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes began torturing them.

pic by veganbilly@flickr


Don't forget the Bumble. He's abominable!

The snow leopard picks up his dry cleaning in early October, lest the snows come early and he is caught out in the bright orange spotted suit.

A snow angel is described by Wikipedia as “a simple depression in snow in the shape of an angel.” That's about it. No history, no instructions, nothing. No picture, no links, no scantily clad snow angels holding bottles of beer, nothing. Scandalous!

Valdez, Alaska averages 326 inches of snow, annually. That's a lot o' snow!

It has snowed an inch in Phoenix, AZ twice, in the 1930's. And once, when I visited there, it snowed over spring break. The rooftops were white. It was a miserable week.

Snow is edible! But in urban areas it may be infected by SMOG (yuck)!! Sometimes snow may contain algae and will be red, and is said to taste sweet!

Snow flakes are commonly under a half inch in diameter, but can be as big as 2 inches. Does size matter?