Northam is a POS. I know they said 11 inches but it was 15 at my daughters house
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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.