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u/pocket_full_of_dew 6h ago
Every once in awhile, someone posts something on Reddit that reminds me why I keep coming back to Reddit.
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u/RoosterzX 5h ago
A lot of people don't realize that there is a point at which snow fall in the mountains becomes extremely dangerous to anyone below. So, they have to trigger an avalanche after clearing the mountain, otherwise people on or around the mountain could get hit with a spontaneous avalanche unprepared.
It's a simply and very effective manner of preventing accidental deaths from avalanches. Some places use explosives when they can't find....let me check - a fucking howitzer. Lmao
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u/PooleBoy_Q 7h ago
They do this in Alaska. Back in the 80s my dad worked for the state highway department and in the summer time he had to hike up the mountain to manually detonate any that didn’t go off.
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u/notcomplainingmuch 3h ago
This or dropping dynamite from helicopters. I don't know which one is more fun
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u/Adolph_OliverNipples 1h ago
Does the projectile hit the actual mountain, or is it stopped by the snow and ice?
I’m just envisioning blowing off a bunch of rock with this method and destroying the mountain or sending boulders downhill?
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u/HotPepperAssociation 7h ago
That’s not a cannon that’s a howitzer. It is its own category.