Posted on 12/21/2006 8:31:19 AM PST by freedomdefender
Here in Colorado, I've never seen a worse job of snow-plowing. I don't know why, and I'm not blaming anybody. But the snowplow guys really have had a bad time with this storm. The main streets are still bad, well over a day after the storm hit.
State sponsored sledding?
Sounds like a job for:
What was his name, again? Naginlooper? ;)
What--Americans be inconvenienced??!! Perish the thought!!
I wonder how many Kalifornia transplant 4WD SUVs (with street tires, of course) are in Denver ditches?
I prefer the PlowKing
Depends on the plan that the snowplow drivers must follow. They are just following directions.
I have friends that live in Reno Nevada. 2-3 years ago they had quite a bit of snow. The plowing plan was ridiculous and some main routes were done after secondaries, in some instances 2-3 days after the storm. The plowing also seemd haphazard. The public was furious. It was not the drivers fault. They were just following the plan.
The following winter another big storm hit. This time plowing went much better. Seems the public outcry made a difference the second time around.
Yeah..I was wondering if the toilets at the Airport are backing up yet? LOL.
Was there ice underneath or on top of the snow? Most snow plows in urban areas have rubber bits to prevent damaging the road. If there's a thick layer of ice on top of or underneath snow, a rubber bit does absolutely no good. We ran into this problem a few years ago at my workplace when we had freezing rain over a 6 inch base of snow.
Steel bits will cut into the ice but the plow has to be able to have them attached. Of course, if it wasn't for the eco-nazis we could just salt the crap out of the road in a emergency like this and have the roads open in a couple of hours.
Sleds should be RENTED, with the extra money going to pay for overtime on the pough crews' parts. Quick - break into that store and see if they have any sleds they can part with (even though nobody's there to ask)...
Oooops... This is Denver, not LA.
POUGH! POUGH! MortMan ploughs into another direct hit on his spelling!
DOH!
I don't understand the salt ban in Colorado. Salt works fine back East. But a side effect is that you have a fair number of fine old classic cars on the road, much more than I see in the Northeast, that haven't rusted out.
A relative of mine drives a plow, so I'm not attacking snowplow drivers, who live a rough life during times like this.
I didn't get the feeling that you were attacking plow drivers, I just wanted to help educate people that may not know the circumstances involved. Many enviro-whackos, when informed of the consequences of their movement, rethink their positions. Well OK not many, but a couple of the ones with critical thinking skills.
"I wonder how many Kalifornia transplant 4WD SUVs (with street tires, of course) are in Denver ditches?" LMAO
I believe the Canadian province of Alberta implemented a salt ban some years ago to reduce the number of vehicle-animal collisions in the winter time. Apparently deer and elk would congregate on roads in the winter to eat the salt.
Seems appropriate for such a vanilla city ;-)
Kills roadside trees.
Were they waiting for the winds to die down before plowing? If so, I can understand that.
The streets around Boulder are in a mess. No Postal service yesterday and likely none today either. A lot of the malls had to close down early yesterday. This last week before Christmas is make or break for some retailers.
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