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October 26, 2006
Pssst...Kid! Wanna Survive an Avalanche?
Have another Twinkie.
Larger objects - chunks of snow, snowmobiles, even people - tend to rise to the surface of a moving stream of avalanche debris, Atkins said, terming it the "Brazil-nut effect" after the phenomenon that larger nuts tend to wind up on top of a bowl of mixed nuts when it is shaken."Snowmobiles are twice more likely to stay on top than their riders. Cars almost never are buried if allowed to go with the flow," he said.
Other useful tips re: hor'dourves and snowfall not really found here.
Posted by Bree at October 26, 2006 10:30 AM