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I built a snow fort
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Thats a pretty weak snow fort. 🙂 I remember a few years ago me and a few friends would go to the school parking lot where they had plowed the parking lots. We had snow forts that were like 10 or 15 feet high. We'd build all kinds of tunnels through those huge piles of snow. Fun stuffs....
Frosty3799
Diamond Member
OHHH MAN I remember that storm haha!! it was awesome... My mom babysat a bunch of kids back then (I was like 9) and between like 4 of us we have quite the intricate tunnels 🙂 We need another one of those storms...
Lord Evermore
Diamond Member
Grrr...next two days weather.com calls it "partly sunny" with a high of 40 degrees, and the next snow isn't till Thursday (unless they do the usual and change it tomorrow to say Sunday is a blizzard).
Maybe I should cover it in aluminum foil to help reflect some of the heat...or would aluminum reflect light but transfer the actual heat? Maybe spraypaint it silver...
Maybe I should cover it in aluminum foil to help reflect some of the heat...or would aluminum reflect light but transfer the actual heat? Maybe spraypaint it silver...
PsychoAndy
Lifer
W00FY IS THE MAN!!!!!!
<w00fy> Evermore, mist it with water tonight
<w00fy> Then it will develop a nice layer of ice armor
<w00fy> Then again you live in Lawrence, I'd get a thick enough ice layer to deflect at least .38 cabiber with 9mm or .45 protection if time allows
<w00fy> And I live in Cambridge
<w00fy> So that means I need to get permission from the City council before I can build a snow fort
<w00fy> Then I need to do an environmental impact study
<w00fy> Then I would need to let the zoning board inform my neighbors of my intent to build a snowfort
<w00fy> Then my neighborhood will hold a town meeting on the viability of a snow fort
<w00fy> A ballot will be held to determine whether I can enter proposed fort as a "question" on the next election
<w00fy> During the next election I would then need a 50% vote to get my proposal appoved
<w00fy> Then it returns to the city council
<w00fy> I would then need to provide a plan to have a subsidized section of the snow fort to provide a snow fort for those that cannot afford their own snow fort
<w00fy> In addition, I would have to provide a plan on having commerical property available within the snow fort of assist in commercial development of the area
<w00fy> Finally, I must also develop the public infrastucture within the area to ensure that my snow fort can support the additional traffic generated by a snow fort
😀 😀 😀
-PAB
<w00fy> Evermore, mist it with water tonight
<w00fy> Then it will develop a nice layer of ice armor
<w00fy> Then again you live in Lawrence, I'd get a thick enough ice layer to deflect at least .38 cabiber with 9mm or .45 protection if time allows
<w00fy> And I live in Cambridge
<w00fy> So that means I need to get permission from the City council before I can build a snow fort
<w00fy> Then I need to do an environmental impact study
<w00fy> Then I would need to let the zoning board inform my neighbors of my intent to build a snowfort
<w00fy> Then my neighborhood will hold a town meeting on the viability of a snow fort
<w00fy> A ballot will be held to determine whether I can enter proposed fort as a "question" on the next election
<w00fy> During the next election I would then need a 50% vote to get my proposal appoved
<w00fy> Then it returns to the city council
<w00fy> I would then need to provide a plan to have a subsidized section of the snow fort to provide a snow fort for those that cannot afford their own snow fort
<w00fy> In addition, I would have to provide a plan on having commerical property available within the snow fort of assist in commercial development of the area
<w00fy> Finally, I must also develop the public infrastucture within the area to ensure that my snow fort can support the additional traffic generated by a snow fort
😀 😀 😀
-PAB
Lord Evermore
Diamond Member
I came up with an ingenious idea, though it may fail miserably. Based on the premise of building sand-castles by filling a bucket with sand; every time I tried that, the sand just fell apart and/or stuck to the inside of the bucket in some spots, so it didn't all come out in the shape.
I have an enameled dutch-oven I was going to throw out (either the enamel melted onto a stove burner in one spot, or the enamel was chipped and the under-surface melted), but I can just use it as my snow fort building-block-maker. Nice thick, heavy round blocks, set them up then fill and pack the gaps. Will make pillers nice to look at too.
I'm debating whether to demolish the existing fort in order to reconstruct it. That'd take a lot of effort though, so I think I'll leave it as the "old ruins" area of the eventual ice fortress, the preserved area to give a sense of the past. 🙂
I was thinking of asking my roommate's mom to make me some little villagers (she's into crafts) out of something cheap, like yarn and wax paper.
I also want to put a flag up on my fort, using the star tattoo from my chest, but I don't just want to print a picture of my chest, and I can't draw by hand or even by using MSPaint.
Any volunteers to draw me a flag? 🙂
I have an enameled dutch-oven I was going to throw out (either the enamel melted onto a stove burner in one spot, or the enamel was chipped and the under-surface melted), but I can just use it as my snow fort building-block-maker. Nice thick, heavy round blocks, set them up then fill and pack the gaps. Will make pillers nice to look at too.
I'm debating whether to demolish the existing fort in order to reconstruct it. That'd take a lot of effort though, so I think I'll leave it as the "old ruins" area of the eventual ice fortress, the preserved area to give a sense of the past. 🙂
I was thinking of asking my roommate's mom to make me some little villagers (she's into crafts) out of something cheap, like yarn and wax paper.
I also want to put a flag up on my fort, using the star tattoo from my chest, but I don't just want to print a picture of my chest, and I can't draw by hand or even by using MSPaint.
Any volunteers to draw me a flag? 🙂
ThisIsMatt
Banned
All this from a guy collecting unemployment! lmao 😉
Man, that snow fort w/ Slide is awesome! The web page is cool too. Blocks are made of 5gallon jugs--- can't imagine how much snow that is for that fort... simply amazing. Props.
When I was a little kid living up north, one year a buddy of mine's parents watered down the snow near his jungle gym one night. The next morning there was a 10x8 block of Ice around it that was smooth as glass. We ice skated on it for a while, but, it was too small really.
So, that day when I went home I wanted to build my OWN ice skating rink. Got permission from the rents and set up the sprinkler and hose in the back yard over a larger area of fallen snow. Well, it turned to ice, the whole freaken back yard was a 3-4" deep sheet of it. Unfortunately it froze very uneven so couldn't be used for skating. However, it was very slippery and with a little momentum a sled would shoot right across.
We had a lot of fun that winter. In the spring when the snow and ice melted, the once grassy back yard was nothing but mud. Soggy, brown, mud. The grass eventually came back but not as quickly as years past without my ice treatment. Never did that again, but, a lawn sprinkler and some clean snow fall can make for some interesting projects. 😛 (Remember to take the hose and stuff back inside after shutting it off, or it'll freeze too and probably break thehose,etc.)
When I was a little kid living up north, one year a buddy of mine's parents watered down the snow near his jungle gym one night. The next morning there was a 10x8 block of Ice around it that was smooth as glass. We ice skated on it for a while, but, it was too small really.
So, that day when I went home I wanted to build my OWN ice skating rink. Got permission from the rents and set up the sprinkler and hose in the back yard over a larger area of fallen snow. Well, it turned to ice, the whole freaken back yard was a 3-4" deep sheet of it. Unfortunately it froze very uneven so couldn't be used for skating. However, it was very slippery and with a little momentum a sled would shoot right across.
We had a lot of fun that winter. In the spring when the snow and ice melted, the once grassy back yard was nothing but mud. Soggy, brown, mud. The grass eventually came back but not as quickly as years past without my ice treatment. Never did that again, but, a lawn sprinkler and some clean snow fall can make for some interesting projects. 😛 (Remember to take the hose and stuff back inside after shutting it off, or it'll freeze too and probably break thehose,etc.)
acidvoodoo
Platinum Member
i want snow fort 🙁 dam england and it's messed up climate
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