How to Properly Extract a Single Tic Tac
You know the problem: getting Tic Tacs out of their container is devilishly
difficult. You either get no candy at all or an avalanche of dozens of
Tic Tacs.
But fret not. There is a way to get exactly one Tic Tac [...]
The Canadian Avalanche Rescue Cat Association
The Canadian Avalanche Rescue Cat Association (CARCA) is the brainchild of Steve Ruskay, whose vision of a unit of trained rescue cats met with initial enthusiasm and then ridicule. From the website:
We are a small group of volunteers dedicated to the training and use of domestic cats in emergency avalanche rescue procedures.
We feel that with [...]
Avalanche Burial and Rescue Video
A skier gets buried in an avalanche, but is rescued only four and a half minutes later. Everything gets caught on film with the video camera attached on the victim’s helmet.
This was a decent sized avalanche. 1,500 feet the dude fell in a little over 20 seconds. The crown was about 1 – 1.5m. The [...]
