Re: Avalanche hits car driving up to Tahoe

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KenS

Avalanche hits car driving up to Tahoe
February 26, 2011 06:29PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9GvtqtkHM8

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hotrod4x5

Re: Avalanche hits car driving up to Tahoe
February 26, 2011 08:27PM

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Crazy

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Frank Furter

Re: Avalanche hits car driving up to Tahoe
February 28, 2011 04:37PM

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I just finished reading a great book on avalanches call Snowstruck by Jill Fredston. The force and speed are remarkable even when it is only a 2-3 foot thick chunk cleaved off a slope. The snow can become as dense as concrete in some of the snowfields left after the avalanche, due to load and probably do to a friction related compaction during the avalanche. There can be a preceding "blow" in advance of the snowfront that can level buildings and trees. She alleges that some avalanches move at 200 mph. (The physics of that puzzles me.)

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