In RI they salt. As Curt said sometimes,brine before the storm. Then either salt or salt & sand I used to live near the Cargill salt mine in Lansing NY. Jillions of tons of road salt out of there every year. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI
On Dec 5, 2018 11:25 AM, "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > In MA the trucks generally can do both brine and salt, brine before the > storm, rock salt after, usually mixed with some sand. We've got hills, this > is a requirement or nothing would ever move around. The salt kills some of > the grass on the edge of the road but that's about it. > > Curr > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 8:38 PM, clay monroe via Mercedes< > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: SWMBA and I are in disagreement about > winter road conditions along the Atlantic coast and other real winter > places. I contend that the roads are salted and that this continues to > this day. She is of the opinion that salting roads is an ecological crime > and if they do not salt her Alaska roads, the rest of the nation, > especially in the radical liberal enclaves of the North East, salt has been > banned. > > I understand that salt being flushed into streams that support anadromous > fishies is not a nice thing. But, there are no fish of any value left > feeding into the Atlantic, and the white man cares not a whit for his > footprint or damage to indigenous populations back east. The First Peoples > out that way are without the stout Treaty rights that the Pacific Coastal > tribes enjoy. > > SO, those who are in the know (last time I spent any winter time back east > was over 50 years ago) who gets the victory cupcake? > > > > clay monroe > redgh...@comcast.net > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
