# Weird white stuff from the sky **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392 "2015-07-17T06:08:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/21 "2015-07-17T21:03:35Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > DO NOT TOUCH IT! It is frozen dihydrogen monoxide, a dangerous, often lethal substance. Indeed. Contact the government to collect as much of it as possible, and send it immediately to Northwest Washington where we have the facilities to safely process it. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/22 "2015-07-17T21:09:42Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > I think the usual response warmlanders have to snow is to freak out, empty the grocery stores of all essential provisions, . Yes. Milk, eggs, and bread. You need to check your provisions, and if you wouldn’t be able to make 500 pieces of french toast at the drop of a hat, you are in serious danger. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/23 "2015-07-17T21:59:55Z")
Very dangerous. Some of it slid onto some mountain climbers on Everest and they died. If in doubt, ship it to Quebec. We deal with 250 cm or more of it _every year_. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/24 "2015-07-17T23:11:00Z")
Some of us only remember this stuff from when we walked uphill to school in it, both ways, in our bare feet. And we were lucky to have feet! Send pictures! ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/25 "2015-07-18T03:40:48Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Yes. Milk, eggs, and bread. You need to check your provisions, and if you wouldn’t be able to make 500 pieces of french toast at the drop of a hat, you are in serious danger. Exactly. Only french toast will stave off the ice zombies that will come. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/26 "2015-07-18T11:07:39Z")
Well so far I’m still alive. Though, given that this stuff only fell inland from where I am, I guess that’s not too surprising. Weird thing is many people are flocking into the area, like ice zombies to a freezer. If they knew about DHMO they wouldn’t take such risks. ---
**Author:** ![SeniorCitizen007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@SeniorCitizen007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeniorCitizen007)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/27 "2015-07-18T12:17:31Z")
God has given you his blessing (it’s his semen). What you should do is dig lots of little holes and put some in each of them and cover with earth. If you tend them lovingly for a few months you should get a nice little crop of angels in time for Xmas. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/28 "2015-07-18T12:45:22Z")
> [@SeniorCitizen007](#): > > God has given you his blessing (it’s his semen)… It’s the coming of the lord? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/29 "2015-07-18T13:07:34Z")
If Joh was still in charge up there you can bet it wouldn’t be snowing. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/30 "2015-07-20T09:33:14Z")
> [@SeniorCitizen007](#): > > God has given you his blessing (it’s his semen). What you should do is dig lots of little holes and put some in each of them and cover with earth. If you tend them lovingly for a few months you should get a nice little crop of angels in time for Xmas. Every flake is sacred, every flake is good? ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/31 "2015-07-20T10:47:59Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > No. GW = Global Warming > It was 2am and I could remember how to spell global.😛 Does all this falling snow make a kind of whooshing sound? 😉 > [@TriPolar](#): > > DO NOT TOUCH IT! It is frozen dihydrogen monoxide, a dangerous, often lethal substance. I wish I’d said that! ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/32 "2015-07-20T16:44:26Z")
It’s Snowpocalypse! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/33 "2015-07-20T22:46:21Z")
Stay away from any of that stuff that’s tinted yellow. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/34 "2015-07-20T23:54:36Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Maybe you should ask a Floridian for advice. My advice is to cut the blue wire. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/35 "2015-07-21T00:30:21Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Here in Atlanta, we use a form of sympathetic magic: Since the Weird Stuff That Falls From the Sky is white, we all go to the grocery store and buy Things That Are White (like milk and toilet paper) in order to appease the Weather Gods so things will go back to being normal (kind of chilly and with normal rain). It makes so much more sense now to this Northerner who just continually keeps two months of food on hand because you never know when a blizzard will hit. (We do this to honor our grandmothers who put away an entire Winter’s worth of food to get through a Minnesota Winter in 1870). ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/36 "2015-07-21T01:35:02Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > My advice is to cut the blue wire. WAIT! NO! I meant the red wire! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/37 "2015-07-21T02:01:34Z")
It snowed in Hawaii over the weekend. [http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20150717\_Rains\_muggy\_weather\_in\_forecast\_through\_Saturday.html?id=316142491](http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20150717_Rains_muggy_weather_in_forecast_through_Saturday.html?id=316142491) ---
**Author:** ![lalaith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@lalaith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalaith)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/38 "2015-07-22T01:14:25Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > It is frozen dihydrogen monoxide, a dangerous, often lethal substance. What I love about this is it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![lalaith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@lalaith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalaith)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/39 "2015-07-22T01:17:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > It snowed in Hawaii over the weekend. > > [http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20150717\_Rains\_muggy\_weather\_in\_forecast\_through\_Saturday.html?id=316142491](http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20150717_Rains_muggy_weather_in_forecast_through_Saturday.html?id=316142491) I thought snow in Hawaii wasn’t unusual? Hawaii’s got some high mountains. I remember one period where it snowed in 49 out of the 50 states. Only state it didn’t snow in was here, Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392/40 "2015-07-22T01:44:40Z")
> [@lalaith](#): > > I thought snow in Hawaii wasn’t unusual? Hawaii’s got some high mountains. > > I remember one period where it snowed in 49 out of the 50 states. Only state it didn’t snow in was here, Florida. [ski Hawaii](http://www.hawaiiskiclub.com/fmain.htm). Its problematic, but apparently, it can be done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-white-stuff-from-the-sky/725392.md?page=3)