Southerners Embrace Fake Snow, Force A White Christmas


Here’s an odd trend for the holiday’s, people in the Southern part of the United States in 2011 spent record amounts on fake snow that covered their yards and homes.

Speaking to ABC News David Bryant president of The Ice Man located in Jacksonville, Fla revealed they had “booked” more than 230 tons of shaved ice snow, up from 140 tons in December 2011. Bryant says of his increased business:

“It’s just absolutely exploded this year,” and “We don’t know why.”

Speaking about the quality of his companies snow David says:

“It’s not the white powdery stuff but for the kids down here, it’s the closest thing they’ll see to snow, It’s flaked ice. It’s not chunks of ice. It’s real, fine ground up ice.”

For anyone interested in a forced white Christmas the service isn’t cheap with costs ranging from $1,700 to $20,000 depending on the size and difficulty of the job.

As Jezebel blogger Cassie Murdoch hilariously points out:

“If you have that kind of money to shred into shaved ice, you know what else you could spend it on? A vacation to a place that is already filled with snow.”

Buyers of the larger fake snow package do receive one really cool benefit, a 70-foot snow slide that can be tobogganed down.

Would you be willing to spend $20,000 for the right to have shaved ice strewn across your yard? Personally $1,700 seems a bit ridiculous to me, for that price I could take a trip to Switzerland and enjoy some of the best slopes in the world.

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