Tidbits of Coachella Valley
Week of December 2, 2012
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WINTRY FACTS (from page page 3) recruited to perform a tribal “snow dance” to induce the clouds to precipitate. As the world waited and the opening day approached, the tribe proceeded with their ritual dances until a miraculous winter storm gathered and produced the snow needed to save the Olympic event! • More than 150 people are killed every year in ! AT avalanches around BE EATthe world. Many avalanches are small slides E Hof dry powdery snow that don’t TH create much damage. But when massive slabs of snow, several acres in area and weighing thousands of tons, suddenly loosen from a mountainside,INthey slide down steep slopes reaching speeds THE of 80 mph in only seconds, instantly covering and flattening anything and everything in their path. Even the fastest skier can’t outrun the rushing advance of an avalanche.
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