[Magdalen] Morning, afternoon.

[Charles Wohlers]

I doubt that there are any engineering barriers to shipping snow by plane - 
plenty of cost barriers, however. Just calculated that I have about 2.3 
million cubic yards of snow right here on my property. Want some?

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ann Markle
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 7:29 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Morning, afternoon.

And I would be willing to share several feet of ours, if I could!  At one
point we completely ran out of space to put snow (maybe a couple of decades
ago?), and loaded it in dump trucks and freight trains that were headed
south.  It melted along the way!  I wish we could get it to you soon enough
-- maybe in the cargo holds of big airplanes?  Just dump it out all over
you guys and you'd have plenty of water!  Seriously -- why hasn't anyone
tried to load it in airplanes and send it out to you?  It could be loaded
into big cargo containers, flown out in a matter of hours (in those
FREEZING, unheated, unpressurized) cargo bays, unloaded in the same cargo
containers, and hauled hither and yon in California.  I know engineers will
tell us why not, but it seems like a massive relief effort to me!

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Susan Hutchinson <shutchinsonca at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was speaking about our local ski hills, Mike. I wasn't trying to be
> snarky. I truly would wish the snow would go there, precisely for the snow
> melt into your dry valleys.
>
> love and blessings
> Susan
> open to sharing a good thing
>
>
> On 2015-02-14, at 1:39 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon wrote:
>
> >>>> Despite the problems on the local ski hills, you can have it, Mike.
> We have plenty of water here, and California keeps trying to buy it
> cheap.<<<
> >
> > It's not about skiing.  It's about snow melt and the benefit to the
> valleys below.
> >
> > As for "buying it cheap" (CA's always been a wheeler-dealer in the water
> business, so such a comment doesn't offend), maybe it's because we need it
> so badly?  I've said it before:  no one here wants the Monterey-Santa
> Cruz-San Benito (much less the Fresno-San Joachin) valleys to dry up and
> blow away.
>
> The Rev. Susan Hutchinson
> 604-319-7148
> shutchinsonca at gmail.com
>
>