Northam is a POS. I know they said 11 inches but it was 15 at my daughters house
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And they canceled school here yesterday because we had a threat of 1 to 3"..... 🙃
He’s incompetent. It’s a trait of a democrat.
Welcome to the "Dark Winter".
Because we know he knew it was going to happen.
Jan 12 can't come soon enough
I'm in ND where we have snow for four or five months every year, in fact we're in the middle of a small snowstorm right now three to five inches of snow while the temps drop below zero again. Minus ten tonight -25 tomorrow...that's actual temps not wind chill.
I'm curious, how does one pre treat the roads? I've never heard of this.
If the roads are dry before an upcoming snow storm, they will spray a liquid salt treatment on the road and it will dry there. Then when the snow falls the salt is already there, and it will prevent the bottom layer from freezing which allows the plows to do a better job of clearing the road. But they can't pre-treat if the roads are wet or if its raining because it will just wash off the solution. In Virginia it is common to get snow then after the storm the temps rise above freezing melt it to a slush then overnight it will re-freeze. Then in the morning you're not driving on a plowed road of snow, but a sheet of ice. Regardless all roads are usually cleared to pavement within a couple days as long as we don't get back to back storms.
Oh ok. They have been using beet juice on the highways here for ice. Normally we don't get a lot of ice but we had a nice storm before we had a snowstorm around Christmas so it was really nasty.
North Dakotans know how to drive in this but sometimes North Dakotans are stupid and drive when they shouldn't be. Like when there's high winds and snow
It's been my experience the snow is much wetter on the east coast. Temp is usually right at freezing. The snows I've seen in the Midwest are cold and dry (spent one winter). It didn't pack into snowballs or snowmen. The wet snow is much harder to drive in and the terrain is much hillier.
Well it's really wet and heavy right now..I was just out shoveling.that mess.
All pre-treating the roads does is make them very slick and ruin the underside of your car. They've been doing this in Maine for 10 yrs and people hate it. If it is cold and it snows, you are much better off with no treatments on the road. Anyone can drive in cold snow if you know what you're doing. But now they pre-treat the roads before every storm and it makes for a greasy, slippery mess - like a spring snowstorm. Much more slippery than if they had just left it alone. And the pretreating truly rots cars right to death. If people don't have their cars undercoated, they can discover their frame is totally rusted before the rest of the car is showing any serious signs of wear.
Pretreatment usually refers to the process of spreading salt, de-icer, sand or another substance to deter accumulation of ice or snow on the roads and provide traction to vehicles.
I think North Dakota's would have a fit if they tried that here we hate salt on the road as it is. Although it does help I sell a crap ton of car washes after a snowstorm runs through here.
You're lucky, Hunny. Here in Maine we'd much rather have no salt on the road except on those rare occasions when it's glare ice. But for normal snowstorms we'd be happier with plain snow, which we all know how to drive in. But nobody asked us, they just started doing it ten years or so ago, and now every time it snows the roads are pretreated with brine and become a sloppy, slippery mess and everybody's cars rust out if they don't get undercoating yearly. Another example where they just can't leave well enough alone.
I agree. I've seen glass ice and ice storms it's usually too cold for that here but it has happened. Back on the 70and 80s, this year we are getting heavy snow fall followed by bitter cold
Don’t worry hunnnyB it’s the south if it rains or snows they go mental. 15 in, in the north is just another day bahahaha. I rem in Alaska it would snow 3 feet in a day then rain the next day then freeeze then do it all over again what a mess that could be these soft people and thier soft society are dooomed. Oh they use a liquid chloride on the roads before a storm hits its caustic so it eats the road apart but it melts snow before hand it’s only used in “soft” states.
Oh I just feel bad for people in the South because they're not equipped to handle it and it's been some nasty weather everywhere.
It's even a really cold winter here and we're used to it our houses and our vehicles are set up for it.
Salt trucks or brine trucks go up and down the highways/byways dropping salt or brine just before it snows