Too Cold Outside

[Clone TIE Pilot]

That's nothing, you haven't seen a thing until you get behind a yellow PennDOT plow truck. There is an even coating of loose rock salt covering my street right now, I kid you not. You could literally shovel it up off the road.

Same thing next door in NJ, I read a study that a lot of DOT not only dump more salt than is needed, they dump more than they even should and are poisoning the soil. That is besides causing undue car rot and pavement decay. There must be a shady kickback going on.

Just now, the local news said we been below freezing for 103 hours.

 

[pagrunt]

Same thing next door in NJ, I read a study that a lot of DOT not only dump more salt than is needed, they dump more than they even should and are poisoning the soil. That is besides causing undue car rot and pavement decay. There must be a shady kickback going on.

Just now, the local news said we been below freezing for 103 hours.

It's a money game for budgets. More you use this winter, the more you get next winter. Don't use enough/have left over stock, you'll see budget cuts. So if the run out before the spring snow that helps to ensure more money for the next winter. Now if they use the extra money on winter maintenance...

 

[joesregalproject]

It's a money game for budgets. More you use this winter, the more you get next winter. Don't use enough/have left over stock, you'll see budget cuts. So if the run out before the spring snow that helps to ensure more money for the next winter. Now if they use the extra money on winter maintenance...

Exactly, it's a use-it-or-lose-it policy, it's a really inefficient system.

 

[joesregalproject]

Same thing next door in NJ, I read a study that a lot of DOT not only dump more salt than is needed, they dump more than they even should and are poisoning the soil. That is besides causing undue car rot and pavement decay. There must be a shady kickback going on.

Just now, the local news said we been below freezing for 103 hours.

I know my grass looks like hell along the edge of the road where the salt hits it. It must be really bad in rural areas where farmers depend on that soil. I know all along the PA turnpike, I-80, and I-79 the farmers grow their crops all the way to the edge of the highway.

 

[tc1959]

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140204-melt-snow-ice-salt-beet-juice-pickle-brine/

 

[wonderboy24]

I thought Iowa uses a lot of salt on the roads.
Nope, Missouri uses way more!
Winter Winter frozen chicken dinner!
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they are using that liquid in the iowa town i live in. not much salt anymore

 

[DRIVEN]

This is the first year that Oregon has used salt. A good friend of mine works fot ODOT doing fleet maintenance. According to him the high levels of salt are mostly due to lazy or incompetent equipment operators. They use the trucks for sand in certain conditions and then switch over to salt but there is a manual change for the rate of dispersal. The drivers are supposed to make the adjustments then periodically check their work but most don't. Sometimes the result is 4x the needed salt on the road. Other times they'll travel 20 miles without actually spreading anything at all.
I'm sure budget has everything to do with it in some cases but in my neck of the woods, too much or too little salt is due to good old fashioned .gov worker laziness.

 

[DRIVEN]

Just across the border in Idaho we've been hovering in the teens and 20s with the occasional peak in the 30s. A little snow a week ago that's still on the ground. Roads are clear and dry.

 

[pagrunt]

Just saw the weather for Pittsburgh for the week, hottest day may hit 22F, but mostly in the teens with more snow at the end of the week. Here at the house in Armstrong County it's a big fat 0F. Guess Santa didn't care for my request for mild temps & being dry. 🙁

 

[joesregalproject]

Check out that wind chill-