Man Uses Flamethrower To Melt Snow
Tired: snow shovels Wired: snow throwers Inspired: flamethrowers
Boston’s Mayor Once Wanted To Clear Snow With Flamethrowers (Cool Weird Awesome 221)
On this day in 1948 of the mayor of Boston, James Curley, wrote to the president of MIT, asking that the school's top engineers find a way to get rid of the huge amounts of snow, maybe with flamethrowers. Seriously. Plus: in Chico, California, a much more calm event is getting underway, the the Snow Goose Festival of the Pacific Flyway.