[KellyAdmirer]

It's wet snow because it came from down South, and it's freezing cold, so no doubt the lower level is frozen. I've been hearing spinning car wheels ever since the storm hit. The roads - not just the sides of the roads - are still littered with abandoned sedans. If you don't have 4WD, you are in big trouble out here.

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.

[Tailback]

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.

[Alberta's Child]

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.

[randog]

I don't understand the salt ban in Colorado.

Kills roadside trees.

[Dave Olson]

I don't understand the salt ban in Colorado.

A number of years ago, Colorado switched from salt to magnesium chloride. Truck drivers don't like it, because they said it's causing corrosion to the wiring and brakes on their trucks.