voom

Up early today (0520) to get the driveway cleared so cymrullewes can get out to make it to Seabrook in time to pick up the paperwork she needs in time to meet with the client in Manchester at 0700.  Between six and eight inches of snow on the ground right now, and still snowing.  Gilford schools are delayed two hours at present, but snowscraper is on the job monitoring for updates.  There's some slush under the snow at the bottom of the driveway that mostly melted yesterday and didn't re-freeze overnight, but with fresh snow to help move it along, the snowblower copes.  It bogs a little when it hits the slush, then it digs in, spits it out and keeps on going.

The snowblower has something in common with Little Cat Z.  Or the contents of his hat, at any rate.  It goes VOOM.  The solid stream of snow blasting out of the discharge chute makes me think of a firefighting water monitor.

Which suddenly leads me to wonder, if it were practical, how good would such a stream of snow be at fire suppression?  One would think it'd suck more heat out of the fire than water, and might be better at smothering it because it'd tend to stick on contact (in the short moments before it melted).  But it'd probably be difficult to generate that kind of quantity of snow on demand in a dense enough stream, and I suspect the jet wouldn't carry as far as a jet of water does.