# Snow Rollers! Nifty snow phenomenon right here in Indiana!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 13, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813 "2003-02-13T13:10:10Z")
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### Author:  [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/1 "2003-02-13T13:10:10Z")
Maybe I’m easy to impress, but this is just the coolest thing ever. Apparently, a unique combination of weather conditions led to the formation of “snow rollers” in many of the local yards and fields. Link, with a deceptively unimpressive picture:
[www.hoosiertimes.com](http://www.hoosiertimes.com)
Basically, they look like rolled up cotton batting, some of them with a hole in the center. When you look closely, you can see the path that made as each one formed, which is even MORE nifty, because some of the ones I observed had actually rolled around corners and shrubs, leaving a purposeful-looking little trail.
I was able to see lots of these while I delivered papers this morning (Heaven knows how many customers I missed while traipsing through nearby yards), and I’m fascinated and somehow touched.
And very, very aware that I may never see this again in my life. This is, for me, a new memory to treasure.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/2 "2003-02-13T13:32:21Z")
Heehee. They look like little snow doots. [Here in New York, we have our own snow related phenomenon.](http://www.antville.org/img/alo/gelberschnee.jpg)
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### Author:  [@grettle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grettle)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/3 "2003-02-13T13:33:39Z")
Wow! Thanks for sharing, that’s really neat. Self-rolling hay bales for those arctic cows that only eat snow.
Bad joke, but it’s still really cool!
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### Author:  [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/4 "2003-02-13T15:59:32Z")
It did make for a fun paper route this morning, in spite of the fact that I nearly fell into one of those thingies that go around basement windows. (Suffice to say that my peripheral vision was sending a somewhat wonky message to my brain: Look! Frozen puddle! You can STEP here!)
I can see it now: Me, covered in snow, sitting groggily among the shards of broken glass on someone’s basement floor, while the folks of the house stand over me muttering to each other, “I haven’t any idea what she’s doing…wasn’t she just out in the yard talking to the snowballs? Maybe we’d better call someone…”
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### Author:  [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/5 "2003-02-13T16:01:00Z")
**Biggirl** , you city people have _all_ the cool stuff.
😉
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### Author:  [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/6 "2003-02-13T16:44:44Z")
I don’t know whether you’re easily impressed, but snow rollers are, indeed, the coolest thing ever. In 30+ years of living in a place where the opportunity is there (ie that white crap covers everything) about 8 months a year I’ve only seen them once, but it was pretty amazing. I went for a long walk just to look at them.
Oh God, I just said that a snow related phenomenon was the “coolest thing ever”. I have got to get out of here. Someplace with palm trees, maybe…
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/7 "2003-02-13T17:46:27Z")
Oh sure, they _say_ it was the wind, but we Canadians know the truth: snow snakes have an odd sense of humour. 🙂
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/8 "2015-08-20T17:47:24Z")
I was just talking with a friend who asked me if I’d seen the videos of strange sounds coming from the sky, so we got talking about odd environmental phenomena & I happened to think about the snow rollers we got here in SE Indiana some years ago. How on Earth did I miss this conversation back then? I was certainly here at the time!
Btw, I found a CBS News story from back then.
> **[Snow Rollers Blanket Midwest](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/snow-rollers-blanket-midwest/)**
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> Right Combo Of Wind, Cold Creates Strange Snowballs Called Rollers
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/9 "2015-08-20T17:53:48Z")
It would definitely be odd for them to form in August.
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/10 "2015-08-20T18:05:47Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> It would definitely be odd for them to form in August.
Unless you’re in [Australia](https://www.j2ski.com/snow_forecast/Australia/).
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### Author:  [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-rollers-nifty-snow-phenomenon-right-here-in-indiana/154813/11 "2015-08-20T18:47:26Z")
Of course, you can’t go to Indiana, Australia anymore since the zombies have taken it over.