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Hi CEM
We got Snow here today. "Fresh white clean-looking snow" of about 4-6" where I live. In light of the thread way below of people claiming that their snow will not burn, I decided to do my own little test, but I was hardly going to try and burn it. No way. And so, here is the end result of my little test. This is how I went about it:
A. Four sparkling clean White Custard Cups were used.
B. Each was used to scoop into various random areas of new fallen snow at about level to the top of the cup. (My hands were washed and dried so as to be as clean as possible.)
C. I allowed all to melt "naturally" inside the house on the Kitchen Table with no other heat than was the temperature inside the house.
D. It took about 40 minutes for the four cups to melt and I noted and photographed ea. cup for the speckles of black that had melted out of the snow in each cup. (Color photos were not working and the flash turned everything red, and so I used the black and white setting of the Camera. The gritty looking specks were indeed black and of various sizes and shapes.
*E. The photo above is the combination of all 4 Custard Cups poured into one single Custard Cup. After I took this photo, I poured all 4 into a standard measuring cup and it was just at 1/2 cup level. So what you are looking at is a mere 1/2 cup worth of fresh melted new-fallen snow in total.
So much for my little experiment CEM. As to just what these black specks are or where they came from (the source) I have no idea nor would I even venture a guess. All I know is the end result of my experiment and what melted out of it without using any lighter, match, torch or whatever.
I do have a concern regardless of what was found. This stuff will make its way into our water. We drink it, wash our hair in it, inhale the very air that contains this material. And this only represents a mere 1/2 measuring cup of melted snow! Unreal........but there it shown above in a most limited experiment.
Take care CEM and I hope you are well and having a nice week. All the best-
Justin~
ps: If I can find someone to analize this stuff, I will for sure let you know the results of the findings.
Congratulations, you found the rare and precious material that is dirt.
In Colorado, when people talk about "Fourteeners," they are talking about mountains that are over 14,000 feet in elevation. In Oregon, when they talk about "Fourteeners," they are talking about people who mobbed the state during the 2014 Dirt Rush.
Bill (Apologies to the San Francisco Forty Niners)
I would mention that up here in the frigid north of New York if you
want to know what is in that snow, just look at our snow here.
If the snow falls today it will be nice clean and white.
Come back several weeks (months) from now and you'll find the snow
very different. It will be caked brown, have lots of trash in
it, and who knows what other junk is in it. And that all makes
it's way into the water supply.
Now to be fair alot of that stuff in the snow is road salt and sands for the inevetable ice. But there is also lots of other stuff in there too.
I would also point out that we'll have huge piles of that
will still be around in june due to all junk in that snow.
Hi
*I can well imagine. I used to live for many years back in New England and know so well what Winters are like there. Yikes! :-)
*Yes, how true. I remember how it did that back in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's until I left.
*How well I remember the salt(mostly)and sand would eat up the cars no matter how good the "Rust Proofing" was on the Auto.
*OMG. In Wethersfield CT. where I used to run my dogs was also a place that trucks dumped snow to get itoff of the highways or wherever. Those mounds were like little mountains and even in July had not melted all the way. Just frozen black junk and the temps. by then were in the 80's and 90's.
Nice hearing from you and thank you very much for the comments.
Justin~
ps: Where I live sand is not allowed. There are very few plows in the entire state as we are not geared for this. My snow samples were taken as the snow was still falling. No plows, barely any cars on the roads and the samples taken far way from any streets. The ground had been frozen and was as hard as ice itself with no give to it when walked on.
Speaking of rust and road salt I stopped to get the car washed today (road salt eats cars so it is critical to get a car wash
regularly.) The woman working the register at the car wash
was saying "wow your hair has grown."
How well I remember trying to keep my car washed as much as I could to prevent that rust caused by the salt. I also remember well how after washing, sometimes the water would have a way of freezing-up all over the car and many a time freezing the doors shut! Nice compliment from that woman bty and glad to hear of this. :-)
Out here the opposite is the case. It is very usual to see a car of 20 or more years older without any rust. If however one lives at the shore, than that is a different store. I am something like 65 miles inland and over the Pacific Mountain Range from our beautiful coast.
Shopping carts? They can be found out here in the wildest places.............and they seem to stay there "unclaimed!" LOL
Justin~
You might want to let the store know. If you to let the store
know that money that won't be added into the prices of merchandise
when they have to be replaced. (Remember when they have to replace
carts the cost is added to the food you purchase.
Same here. I live five miles from the ocean, and there's a 900 foot high hill in between. We get little salt damage. Out by the beach, the cars are all rusted out. The salt comes through the air, "ocean spray" if you will.
If politicians here were to spread any chemicals on the streets, the environmental types would freak out, because "it would eventually end up in the bay or the ocean and it would kill all the fish". Of course, there's already lots of salt in the bay and the ocean, and it doesn't seem to bother the fish much.
Bill
While you Americans are freezing your butts off, we have high winds and the south-west English coast is getting monstrous waves, up to 70 feet or more. The biggest ships have to stay in port. There is widespread flooding and misery. I would almost dare say that there's enough wind to blow the hair off your head!
We are very lucky here in Normandy, high winds and rain, but not nearly as bad as in England.
I saw some people yesterday who hadn't seen me for about 6 months, and they noticed my hair nearly 4 months since my last buzz cut last September. I told them I was growing it out, and my wife said she preferred that to my going off with another woman!!! What a comparison! Of course she was joking.
Indeed with your car washing, don't forget to do under the wheel arches and the chassis, using a high pressure hose.
Keep warm and keep that hair growing...
Anthony
My blogHere in California, it was so windy yesterday that they had to postpone a televised golf tournament. The wind was strong enough that it was blowing the golf balls around. Yeah, they'd place one on the green and it would take off downwind by itself!
I don't think it blew anyone's ball INTO the hole, or they certainly would have shown that!
Bill
Oh you just gotta love the supermarket parking lots after the weather warms and the snow melts. Funny all the mangled shopping carts all plowed into neat little piles after the storms. I always wondered if the plow operators did this on purpose! Lol. Cheers
Mârk
That must be something unique to your area. Around here they round up all the shopping carts regularly and eitehr bring them
inside the store or chain them up with locks outside. After all those shopping carts are not cheap. My understanding is they are in the $100-$125 neighborhood. You have a busy day at the
grocery store and you have alot of money scattered around the parking lot.
Well there is one market near me that tries to corral the carts but I've seen them on the grounds of apartment complexes near the market where the shoppers bring their groceries home and leave the carts on the lawns or parking lots around the apartments.You wonder how many carts are lost between that and getting crushed by the plow operators.
Mârk
Around here the local supermarkets contract with an outside service
to ind missing carts and retrieve them.
Also some stores have installed a system that won't allow
carts to leave the parking lot. I'm not sure what happens if
you try to leave the parking lot with a cart. But again those carts are not cheap.
Hi Justin - I have been away, on the farm & away from my computer: ( I do not have a computer there & thank goodness for that ) see previous threads re: my love/hate relationship with 'puters/www/internet ... thank you very much for your follow-up experiment & valuable input ... considering this seems to be a most volatile subject here ... may I say this ... you would not have to be a rocket-scientist to observe & discern that all is not right in this world, be it 'chem-trails': ( or not ), 'tainted-snow': ( or not ), 'global warming': ( or not ), over-population, escalating weather extremes, acid rain, ground-water-'fracking'-poisoning, abhorrent & dysfunctional human behaviour, askew & awry priorities etc., etc. ... it is not my desire or intent to convince another ... Gods gift is choice ... the right to choose ones own 'life-path', actions, knowledge, faith, thoughts, opinions & ultimately their conclusions & truth is their own... I will continue planting trees, recycling water, being kind to ALL living things & continue striving to be the best version of myself ... responsible & accountable for my actions ... we ALL must act, & with this action there is a consequence ... we ALL will 'feel' the consequences, be them positive & beneficial: ( or not ) ... individually & collectively ... thanx again my friend & don't stop being you ... peace & love CEM. :O)
