Perfect Ice Storm Recipe Ingredients: 6 inches of snow 2 inches of rain Artic Winds to 70 mph
Instructions: Prepare at sea level. Pre-refrigerate air to below freezing. Add 6 inches of powdery snow Stir with 40 mph gusts Add humidity from the Columbia. Funnel artic air through river gorge until thoroughly chilled. Heat the upper tray (altitude of 1000 feet or higher) to > 40F Cool the lower tray (below 500 feet) to < 20F Add 2 inches of rain. Spread over 3 days. Should harden immediately. Mix should form a 1" solid sheet of ice. Spread over city. After mix hardens, do not plow. Allow vehicles to break up the ice into slush. Lower temperature, leave overnight or until slush freezes. Do not plow. Note: Do not add salt to road mixture, use gravel sparingly. If you run out of de-icer, turn off airport for 3 days until mix softens. If any trees still have leaves, cycle freezing/thawing until limbs break off. Make sure limbs don't fall on cars, people or power lines. Nerd From Portland My Ice Storm story (other than falling down getting out of a bus) is when my dog escaped out of the front door, he immediately fell, slid off the porch, down my front yard, and halfway down the street before finally coming to a stop. I would have won awards if I would have had a video camera. Took us 10 minutes to get him back in the house. The ice was thick enough for me to stand on, if you call it standing. If you busted through, there would be 3-20 inches of powder underneath. Before I cleared the ice off my porch, my kids could have gone sledding starting from the entry way. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
