The Atlanta-area weather forecast for New Year’s Eve 2008: a snow shower —- an extremely isolated one.Stone Mountain Park is creating Snow Mountain, officials announced Tuesday. For two months, the lawn where people usually watch the park’s laser show will be a glistening expanse of snow made of water drawn from the park’s lake.
On Dec. 31, park-goers will have the chance to jump on an inner tube and go skipping down a 400-foot slope of manufactured snow. The attraction will remain open through March 1.
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liberator 10.15.08 at 7:31 pm
Who is Chris Krok? Kenny B and Charles Rule!
Game Fan 10.15.08 at 7:54 pm
And now with snow tubing the ATL has entered the big leagues.
umustbekidding 10.15.08 at 7:56 pm
I grew up in Stone Mtn. We just slid down the lawn when it rained.
Game Fan 10.15.08 at 8:19 pm
We also got Ludacris.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsNB-T4k48
Doug Deal 10.15.08 at 9:38 pm
“Snow Mountain”? Sounds like something that comes out of Washington.
Bill Simon 10.15.08 at 9:44 pm
I was under the impression we STILL had a water supply problem for our Atlanta-metro area.
Bill Simon 10.15.08 at 9:46 pm
UMust,
You grew-up “in” Stone Mountain? Are you one of those dwarves like they had in the Lord of the Rings who dug-out a home in the mountains?
Doug Deal 10.15.08 at 9:48 pm
Bill, it clearly states in the article that it will be pumped from the lake.
Bill Simon 10.15.08 at 10:02 pm
Doug,
I goofed and didn’t read that excerpt carefully.
HOWEVER, if one uses “lake water” how in the hell can one get “glistening” snow in any other color except a nice green-brown tinge?
Ohhh…boy…that’ll be an attraction. “Hey, Honey! Let’s take the kids to sleigh-down that sh*t-covered hill they have over at Stone Mountain Park this weekend!
Doug Deal 10.15.08 at 10:27 pm
Bill,
Ice crystals have a remarkable property, they exclude molecules of pretty nuch anything else because of the very orderly structure that occurs when water solidifies.
I know you really didn’t want an answer, but it is rare that I can answer a question related to chemistry.
Bill Simon 10.15.08 at 10:31 pm
Doug,
Funny thing about ice…it can sometimes defy your knowledge of chemistry.
Doug Deal 10.15.08 at 10:42 pm
It can defy…
…and then regret.
Game Fan 10.16.08 at 10:38 pm
Since water issues are traced to LESS snow on mountains, then this should actually HELP the situation.
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