Snow Wisdom

Amy Royce wrote:Anne Miller- curious about thing we can do to repurpose the over abundance of snow? Is it okay to take inside, melt, use etc.? OR is it best to keep outside for the animals, plants and need for moisture in the ground for the spring season.?

Snow ice cream, though as a kid my mom would not let me eat snow because of the radioactivity.

I do not know anything about this so I asked Google:

Snow can contain radioactivity from natural sources and from nuclear testing.
 
Radon and its decay products can be captured in snow and carried to the ground, temporarily increasing radiation levels

Anne Miller wrote:I do not know anything about this so I asked Google:

Snow can contain radioactivity from natural sources and from nuclear testing.
 
Radon and its decay products can be captured in snow and carried to the ground, temporarily increasing radiation levels

Ah! That explains the extra "zing" in those snow cones.

I kid, I kid. Snow is just funny shaped rain. It would say it's easier to reduce any residual chemical/nukey stuff when snow melts into liquid water because it's quite often attached to particles which will precipitate out or can be reduced through filtering.

BTW I wouldn't mind a two foot dump of heavy snow this month. We are desperate for the moisture. Hopefully my carrots won't be more radioactive than usual.