3. Snowshoes work because they give you “bigger feet.” Ever wonder how snowshoes actually work? Snowshoes give your feet more surface area. This allows your body weight to spread out over a larger area, which better supports your weight. This means you won’t sink as far into the snow. The snow isn’t the only place people use snowshoes. People use snowshoes to cross mud in places like wetlands.
4. Not getting enough sleep can make you more susceptible to illness. Not getting enough sleep affects your immune system, and studies show people who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to get sick. Not getting enough sleep can also affect your recoup time and make it harder to get over an illness.
hand with shovels or moved with horsedrawn carriages that were equipped for the task. His snow blower consisted of a large, four-wheeldrive truck with a chute attached to it. Snow blowers wouldn’t be available to common consumer until the 1950s, at which point they were compact and affordable, costing about $100.
Bodies of water and private wells can increase in salinity because of road salt use. The salt can also end up in a public water supplies.
7. Wind chill measures the amount of heat lost from the human body.
6. The use of road salt is a concern to some environmental groups. The Northeast and Midwest portions of America use about 18 million metric tons of rock salt on roads each year. Some jurisdictions don’t use salt and instead opt for sand. This is due to rising concerns about the salinity of groundwater.
We all know and dread the wind chill during the winter months. That’s because wind chill doesn’t have anything to do with the actual temperature; it has more to do with how that temperature feels to us. Wind chill is a term that describes the rate of heat loss on the human body resulting from the combined effect of
5. This winter, we should all pay homage to Arthur Sicard. That’s because in 1925 — 90 years ago — he invented the snow blower. He was an engineer in Montreal, Canada. Before that, snow was moved by 2014 / 2015
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