John and I were watching this season of Ice Road Truckers when they were showing this avalanche gun. The gun was apparently originally invented to start avalanches and flood enemies with snow. Now, the Department of Transportation uses it to cause unstable snow to avalanche while it's safe (and people are out of the way).
This video is not what we watched, but one from a previous season. It's still interesting, but not as visually stunning (the one we watched, you could see the snow cascading).
Anyway, this is the haul road north of Fairbanks and NOWHERE close to anywhere we'd be. Not to worry... it was just interesting.
THIS is something I don't even want to THINK about!
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