The people of Baguio were very excited when the news came out that there is going to be a "Shower of Snow". Of course it is only artificial snow but everybody living in the Coldest City in the Philippines would want to experience even just quasi-snow. The event was often a news on television over the past week or so and interviews were made with those handling the snow show in Baguio City.
Some friends at Facebook even posted that they were going to see and experience the artificial snow flakes (more appropriate to be "fakes"). My wife and special son went early, around 5 pm., to Session Road where the snow fakes were to shower down.
They were home at around 8 in the evening and what they first mentioned was there were more people than those attending "Panagbenga"! Immediately, I refreshed my Facebook page and friends were quick to post photos taken on the event. The crowd was packed like sardines! My wife said they could hardly move around to get anywhere! The crowd was so thick that anything that could spark a stampede will result to hundreds, if not thousands, of casualties! The "is no" (snow) show in Baguio City was not really worth it.
My wife and son had a few of the artificial snow fakes (flakes) land on their hands. When it melted (really quite fast) it had a strong smell of chlorine (like Clorox or Zonrox)! If the fake snow was really that, pity the crowd that got most of the shower as their colored clothing could have white spots after. Even the shower of the artificial snow was not impressive - in the photos, I could not find anyone that would have even been partly covered by it.
i was there and one of the crowd who experienced the difficulty in moving along session road while they were spraying the "snow" (mostly shouted BULA from washing machine :p). But, I think the "snow" that your wife got didn't smell like chloring (clorox or zonrox) but it doesn't smell anything at all. I'm sure it smells nothing like chlorine sir and maybe they thought it was like that and smell like that because of what it looked like. I pity those children who are mixed up in the crowd, they can barely breathe there.
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