My first ever visit to USA was to work for Microsoft Technology Center @ Boston, MA and I landed on a day with 6" of snow. The sight of snow for a person form a beach city of Chennai in India was dramatic and unforgettable.
I lived there for 2 years and now, make it a point to visit US only during winter to experience the snow, the cold and the wind chills. Its also a perfect period to catch up with friends and talk to them for hours over a cup of coffee and dinner. Here is a picture of my Friend Ravi's home in the suburbs of Boston.
This summer vacation, my kids were insisting that we take them to a new show on the town "Snow Ball", an artificial snow world. So we went there and paid about Rs 150 per person (approx US $ 4)
The snow was splashing out of a hole 15 feet above and people were standing below this to let the snow shower on them, catching the snow in their hands and playing...
Knowing how snow is formed, my inquisitive mind was wondering how organizers could create snow in this hot summer and what kind equipment they would be using.
In the meantime, my kids were enjoying the snow on the slippery ice floor, the "snow starved" population thronging the place to see the glimpse of snow.
I was imagining some complex and expensive systems replicating nature behind the scenes and stepped out to find it out.
What I saw was crazy... "An industrial crusher and a fan"
They had this truk that brought large ice bars from factories outside the city and fed those large ice bars to the crusher that would spit out small ice crystals while the fan would blow them out through a hole into the arena!!!
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