Olympic site gets snow trucked from afar

[Lil Bit Special]

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/2010/02/02/spo-cypress-weather-olympics.html

The persistent warm spell hitting B.C.'s South Coast is forcing Vancouver Olympic organizers to take even more drastic measures to prepare the Cypress Mountain snowboard and freestyle-skiing venue.

High temperatures and rain have melted much of the snow-pack at the North Shore mountain site. Technicians have been replacing that with snow from higher up the mountain and building up the runs with wood and hay.

Now a spokeswoman for the Vancouver organizing committee says VANOC is trucking in about three dozen loads of snow a day from as far away as Manning Park, more than two hours drive east of Vancouver.

VANOC's vice-president of communications Ren

[vanDoug]

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/2010/02/02/spo-cypress-weather-olympics.html

Smith-Valade couldn't say how much the trucking of snow will cost, but that it should be covered by VANOC's contingency fund, because of unspent money in the snow removal budget.

Now that's funny.

Bringing in snow with the money you had budgeted to clear it away.

[faba]

We have snow to export from Jersey - maybe we can make some money for our broke state here