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