Big donut
WSDOT crews spot giant doughnut
07:13 AM PDT on Friday, March 16, 2007
KING5.com
MARBLEMOUNT, Wash. - WSDOT maintenance crews spotted a rare snow doughnut this week while doing some reconnaissance work on the North Cascades Highway.
Crews were scouting the avalanche chutes above the pass and measuring the snow depth over the highway when they saw it.
According to Mike Stanford of WSDOT, everything has to be just right for snow doughnuts - also called snow rollers by some - to happen. The snow needs to have certain elasticity, and air and ground temperature have to be at just the right level.
He says it starts with a rolling snowball on a steep slope, which curls, and instead of collapsing on itself it just continues to roll. He says it is a freak occurrence in nature, but that it does happen once in a while, and when it does happen, it's not unusual to see more than one.
At least, these doughnuts are fat-free!
posted by bladio @ 1:25 PM
6 Comments:
mmmmmm.....donuts.
I wonder if anyone's ever been caught in a donutlanche. And I don't mean at the Krispy Kreme.
Wow - that is so cool!
yeah, neato. I like that. Snow donut. or doughnut.
Once I tried to make a Paula Deen donut recipe where you use biscuits from the tube (that pops when you crack it) and then deep fry them and frost them. Not so good. Probably my only sad Paula Deen recipe experience.
we used to make those biscuit tube donuts in the fry-daddy when i was a kid! as i recall they were good.
Dang man, maybe we did it wrong. I don't know...they looked good, but it was just a weird not so donut-y taste.
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