[IP] Moscow to Fight Winter's Snow with Air Force

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Sean C. Sheridan" <scs@CampusClients.com>
Date: October 19, 2009 10:06:17 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Moscow to Fight Winter's Snow with Air Force


Moscow's infamous snowy winter may be a bit tamer this year thanks
to its weather-altering mayor.

Yury Luzkhov intends this winter he will enlist the Russian Air
Force to help disperse approaching clouds that normally drop
several feet of powder on the Russian capital. If "very big and
serious snowfall" approaches between Nov. 15 and March 15, the Air
Force will fly out and spray dry ice, cement particles or silver
iodine into the clouds, creating crystallization that leads to
precipitation.

Moscow's public works chief Andrei Tsybin told the Itar-Tass news
agency that the grandiose plan will cost the cash-strapped city
about $6 million, but claims it will be cheaper than the $10
million the city normally spends digging out from under the
several feet of snow that falls each year.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/AheadoftheCurve/moscow-fights-snow-airforce/story?id=8859846





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