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WOW! terrifying, no one hurt.
WOW! terrifying, no one hurt.
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snow making pipe bursts at Stratton blasting gondi
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Wow ... I wouldn't have guessed it would have sprayed strongly that high or far enough to move a gondola cabin like that. I wonder if anyone tried to ski through it?
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Good reason to wear your helmet indoors!
I imagine that there will be a rather icy spot on that trail for the rest of the season...
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Oh my, I hope that is just a rumor!
Something similar happened at Bristol a few years ago. A pipe burst under the main HSQ and sent a geyser up high enough to soak the people (including the guy I had been skiing with) on the chair. For whatever reason I took a break and told him I'd meet him next run-sometimes you're just lucky...................
PS-No one got hurt.
PS-No one got hurt.
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Considering how fast that water came out, you can see how you have those drownings in snowmaking bunkers. They must fill instantly.
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I haven't heard about these drownings.
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It happens. Here's one - https://www.summitdaily.com/news/osha-investigating-snowmakers-death/
It doesn't happen a lot, but you can imagine how quickly that kind of water pressure could fill a relatively small space and it sure would make it hard to escape too.
It doesn't happen a lot, but you can imagine how quickly that kind of water pressure could fill a relatively small space and it sure would make it hard to escape too.
From my background in underground utilities, water pressure can be crazy.
I wouldn't have guessed that there was that much pressure in a snow making system.
Depends on the type of snowmaking they have.
Yes pressures are high due to the elevation change. The pressure needed to pump water up 1000 vertical feet is over 400 psi.
Seems pretty unlikely that the well that a resort uses for snowmaking would be hooked up to their normal water system
^^^ I am not so sure about this. Several summers ago wild fires in B.C. threatened the Sun Peaks Village (fire got within a couple miles away) so they used the snow guns to hose down the hotels in the village core. Shortly afterwards they changed the plumbing so they could divert water from the snow making reservoir to the village fire hydrants.
The reservoir is located in the alpine, 2500' (est.) above the village so it is a gravity fed low pressure system with no pumps other than whats on the snow guns. This might make the fire hydrant switch over more viable with no toilets ever harmed.
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Heh... Hydraulic head. This is a family friendly forum!