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Just in time for snow season!  DC co-founder Ken Block teamed up with Subaru to design and produce the world’s fastest cat-track snow car.  Primarily for reaching alpine backwoods to engage in some fresh boarding, the vehicle is also built for fun as a standalone toy.

Prepared by Vermont SportsCar, performance modifications include 400-hp and features Group N competition rally dampers made by EXE-TC and a KAPS 5-speed close-ratio dog-engagement gearbox. Under the hood sits a 2.5 liter, 4-cylinder, turbocharged and intercooled STI engine tuned with a MOTEC M800 ECU.

Not seen is a trailer that will haul up to four boarders and equipment.  More info here.

Remember when you were little and playing outside with your friends and someone said lets play ‘War’, ‘Cowboys and Indians’ or ‘Cops and Robbers’? And using your imagination that stick you found turned into a weapon complete with sounds and recoil and the times when you’d argue with friends on whether or not they got hit by your weapon? Well, these kids are doing the same thing but are using their imagination at a much more prodigious level.

**Note: This movie has subtitles so please turn them on by following the instructions that pop up when you press play!

Here he demonstrates how to build a snow cave, which if necessary you could shelter in for weeks at a time until the weather cleared up enough to get to safety. Not many of us are likely to see that much snow any time soon, but its a great bit of knowledge to have.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Jake.

When some people decide to roll a large snowball down a hill in Hampstead Heath park in London, do you:

a) Jump out of the path of a giant runaway snowball?
b) Jump ON it?

Oh, like you couldn’t guess what happened next! See for yourself.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Jake.

Celebration, Florida is a planned community near Orlando that was developed by the Disney Company in the 1990s with early 20th c. architecture. 

Every night during December the palm-lined main street in the town center is filled Christmas music and artificial snow (tiny soap bubbles) is pumped out of the streetlights.

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This method of beer storage might equally apply for Chicago, Boston, or New York, if the weather prognosticators are correct.  It works if you lose power, and in fact is completely carbon-neutral.

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Maybe it’s just because I live in sunny Southern California and never actually see snow, but it truly fascinates me. Even if you’ve had your lifetime share of cold weather though, you’ll still probably love these photos of frost, snow and ice. Plus, if you actually read the text, you just might learn something new.

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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When a freezing winter gives you thousands of tons of snow, what’s an Alpine farmer to do? Harvest the snow and sell it to ski resorts, of course!

In Austria the biggest “snow harvesters” are the owners of the Grossglockner Hochalpenstrassen AG (GroAG), a 40-mile stretch of road 8,200 feet above sea level which is Europe’s highest Alpine crossing.

GroAG spokesman Dietmar Schondorfer said: “Even if it doesn’t snow, every day we have tonnes of snow dumped on the road by the wind, all we have to do is drive back and forward to scoop it up.

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This image is a 5′ sculpture made out of snow. In March of 2003, there was a huge blizzard in Denver and school was canceled for an entire week. With nothing else to do and artistic frustration to get out, my cousins, brother, sister, and I decided to sculpt an enormous face in the packed snow. I hope you post this work of art – I personally think it’s awesome

I think it’s awesome, too! Link -Thanks, GwenAnn Hua!

The folks over at 2pie blog have a pretty neat idea: make a snow print by pushing their faces into fresh powder on cars. The images are all concave, but make for an optical illusion of 3D sculptures!

I saw this circulating on the Net a few days ago, but didn’t get the chance to post it till now. Better late than never! Link

What do you think? Rude, or funny? Personally, I enjoyed it.

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Check out this powerful Snow Plow Train get stuck. At first I thought it would keep going but as massive as they are, mother nature has her way.

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