I wonder how much water that took?

Assuming a 3:1 ratio by volume (3 inches of snow = 1 inch of water), this kid's dumping a foot of water in his back yard in one night, and looking forward to when he can push out 2 feet of water...

Can't wait to see their water bill. Or the subsequent ordinance regarding residential snow generation.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Surely there is a more economical way to make a lot of snow quickly.

Brodan: Surely there is a more economical way to make a lot of snow quickly.

Move to South America.

What kind of boy? A rich one.

Luckily, I never carried out my evil plan with my father's air compressor, or the headline could have read,

The kind of boy that would receive an air compressor for Christmas is the same kind of boy that would use it to blow up his neighbor's yappy little dog like a zeppelin.

FormlessOne: Assuming a 3:1 ratio by volume (3 inches of snow = 1 inch of water), this kid's dumping a foot of water in his back yard in one night, and looking forward to when he can push out 2 feet of water...

I always heard 7-12" per inch of rain equivalent.

Them too ^{(^)}

One new years day I was jetting down the the store for beer & saw a group of kids with 2 pick-up trucks full of snow. They were shoveling it onto a small, maybe 8ft hill & building a jump for their boards.

Difficulty: Phoenix

It's a very good thing you did Forrest, a very good thing. Isn't that right Anthony? Didn't Forrest do a good thing?

Any bets this kid is home schooled?

"He's watching a molecular process happening here," said Elizabeth Pearson, who is quite impressed with what her son has created. "He's creating a climactic event. It's incredible."

I have no doubts.

Yay Hometown!

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I wonder how much water that took?

Assuming a 3:1 ratio by volume (3 inches of snow = 1 inch of water), this kid's dumping a foot of water in his back yard in one night, and looking forward to when he can push out 2 feet of water...

Can't wait to see their water bill. Or the subsequent ordinance regarding residential snow generation.

I bet it's no more than a big swimming pool.

oldebayer: Luckily, I never carried out my evil plan with my father's air compressor, or the headline could have read,

The kind of boy that would receive an air compressor for Christmas is the same kind of boy that would use it to blow up his neighbor's yappy little dog like a zeppelin.

"Wheeee, a zeppelin!"

/major award

I wonder how much water that took?

Captain Chaos will have his revenge.

Go bored Oregon boy!!

xtex: Any bets this kid is home schooled?

"He's watching a molecular process happening here," said Elizabeth Pearson, who is quite impressed with what her son has created. "He's creating a climactic event. It's incredible."

I have no doubts.

snow at home (new window)

The only thing this kid CREATED was another debt on the credit card.

FTFA:Forest said the machine wasn't cheap. He had to save his allowance to pay for $500 in supplies, but he said it was all worth it.

$500 Bucks? Ouch. Shoulda gone to Harbor Freight, would have gotten a 60 gallon Air Compressor for the same price, coulda covered the whole block.

Very nice use of the cool tag.

xtex: I have no doubts.

so because the mom says something stupid, you have no doubts that the kid is home schooled? talk about leaps of logic...

While next door the mothers son sucks on a crack pipe.

Kid with a goal, how cool is that

Malinki: Approves of this story.

ahh i can sleep well tonight with this image in my mind

calienteness

shanrick: Captain Professor Chaos will have his revenge.

FTFY

My strike html disappeared....wtf...

It's Professor Chaos...

/Self-Fail.

I never would've figured that out when I was ten.

Then again, when I was that age we got enough snow around here regularly enough that this sort of thing wasn't really necessary.

Kudos to the kid, at least he is doing something with his mind and talents. It may not have been the most original or useful but the kid is ten. I bet you the kid is home schooled too, he hasn't had his imagination destroyed by useless and time wasting assignments. Its my hope he grows up and lays waste to the earth with his huge weather machine just for kicks.

BobtheFascist: One new years day I was jetting down the the store for beer & saw a group of kids with 2 pick-up trucks full of snow. They were shoveling it onto a small, maybe 8ft hill & building a jump for their boards.

Difficulty: Phoenix

Me and a good friend of mine would pick up truckloads full of shaved ice off a local hockey rink here in north Texas. We used it to cover another friends car... I guess it made more sense drunk, but that still could possibly explain what you saw.

ah the joys of boyhood creativity. some of my favorite projects were mixing bleach with amonia, throwing powdered cinnamon onto a hot stove element and making a GI Joe helium balloon.

*if anyone found a Zartan tied to a garbage bag let me know

In another 10 years, he'll be posting on Fark.

The first thing I thought of when I saw "air compressor":
A military briefing in which I was told that the human colon will rupture when exposed to 2-7psi.

/File this info under: It had to have happened to be in a briefing.

It took a child to solve Global Warming?

What's an air compressor have to do with snow? Could someone give us a 'Here comes the science' for the blondes in the thread?

fappomatic: In another 10 years, he'll be posting on Fark.

Considering he is building his own snow machine (and that he knows the value of money) in 10 years he will probably have better things to do, like women to start with.

what was the carbon footprint of his little playtime?

Mom said (FTA) "He's creating a climactic event. It's incredible."


/sounds kinda dirty

KipperM: What's an air compressor have to do with snow? Could someone give us a 'Here comes the science' for the blondes in the thread?

Air compressor forces water into a fine mist, which freezes normally. All they're doing essentially is creating "rainfall".

"We're past toys" the mother said.
Who says a compressor ain't a toy? When I got my last compressor I played with it for 3 or 4 four hours befor anything else got done that day. Any tool is a toy.

Trik: what was the carbon footprint of his little playtime?
Well, lets see, a 30 gal air compressor and a high pressure washer presumably gas, running all night? well W+P/X=STFU

$500 in savings in allowance? Kid either gets a NICE allowance or he's been saving since his mother was born.

Yeah he spent a lot of money, but who cares. He's 10 years old. He not only learned to save his money for something he wanted, but also learned a lot about do it yourself projects and maybe some engineering. The people making fun of this kid are probably the same people who say our kids need better educations or aren't doing anything productive.

BobtheFascist: One new years day I was jetting down the the store for beer & saw a group of kids with 2 pick-up trucks full of snow. They were shoveling it onto a small, maybe 8ft hill & building a jump for their boards.

Difficulty: Phoenix

Did the same thing a couple years ago in papago park.

KipperM: What's an air compressor have to do with snow? Could someone give us a 'Here comes the science' for the blondes in the thread?

The compressor forces the water through nozzles. The water vaporizes coming out of the nozzles (see the third pic in the article), and turns to snow as it travels through the freezing air.

crap.

Didn't see your post iagomonk.

panfried [TotalFark] Quote 2008-01-27 02:12:16 AM
Trik: what was the carbon footprint of his little playtime?
Well, lets see, a 30 gal air compressor and a high pressure washer presumably gas, running all night? well W+P/X=STFU

That's cool and all (BTW: yes, his address likely means his folks have some cash just sitting around) but it seems kind of silly when he's so bloody close to virtually year-round snow at Mt. Hood.

/I'm missing the point, I know.

iagomonk: KipperM: What's an air compressor have to do with snow? Could someone give us a 'Here comes the science' for the blondes in the thread?

Air compressor forces water into a fine mist, which freezes normally. All they're doing essentially is creating "rainfall".

Come on, I'm blonde and I totally knew that. This is weird, my grandmother gave all the grandchildren air compressors for Christmas. Seriously. Haven't exactly figured out why yet. Good to know it's useful for something, we hardly ever get snow around here.

Akuinnen: Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Two brothers... One speaks no English, the other learned English from watching "The Wide World of Sports." So you tell me... Which is better, speaking no English at all, or speaking Howard Cosell?

"This? This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This? This is Kent. This is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated."

/Can't wait to hear that it all sublimated
//Now if I can only keep it from exploding...

The kid made it. Ya, right.


/rolls eyes


Sure dear old dad, gramps and Uncle Bob didn't help one bit.