Re: CULT:damage from salt
- Subject: Re: [iris] CULT:damage from salt
- From: Ellen Gallagher e*@yahoo.com
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:20:05 -0800 (PST)
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
John Reeds wrote:
>>> You know, I always thought it was short sighted to use salt
to clear the roads in all the cold-weather states. Sort of
like, "it comes out of a different pocket"; but I expect the
cost of plowing instead of salting would not exceed the cost of
replacing all the rusted out cars ans other salt damage. <<<
John - salt is not used to 'clear' the roads...the plows do
that. Maybe in the border states where road-salt will melt the
snow. We fuss and fume about the salt damage to vehicles BUT we
would fuss and fume more if the ice (which is what the road-salt
is for) caused us to crash our precious vehicles. We have some
of the same kinds of plows as Laurie described and we also have
plain ole salt trucks that rumble in the night as you try to
sleep.
Ellen (we have been below -25 F most of this winter mornings and
only reached a low of -40 F (same in C) twice this winter - the
past three mornings were very bad and this morning, a heat-wave
of less than - 10 (-23 C) so we are basking in the sun :-)
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laurief <laurief@paulbunyan.net> wrote:
> Plowing and salting is not an either/or proposition up here.
> Most of the
> county plows are equipped with V-plows on the front end and a
> dump bed
> dispensing a mixture of sand and salt on the back end.
>
> Laurie - up in the North Woods where we are expecting sub-zero
> temps yet
> again this weekend ... and it's nearly March!
=====
Ellen Gallagher <ellengalla@yahoo.com> / Berlin, New Hampshire / USDA Zone 3a
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