Posted on 12/16/2016 7:03:05 PM PST by old-ager
Tonight driving home - very thin layer of ice on I-64 (Highway 40). No traction. Traffic jammed. Slipping and sliding at 10 miles per hour. NOT A SALT TRUCK IN SIGHT. I-70 from Columbia to St. Louis was arguably the worst stretch of road in the nation, with crashes, closings, backups of many hours.
Yet MO Highway 141 was deiced. County roads were deiced. Even my podunk street had large chunks of salt on it, just like in the old days.
I noticed something like this before in the last couple of years. What the hell is up? Anybody know? Is it just more incompetency from Jay Nixon? Corruption? EPA?????
Salt might harm the plant life near the highway, humans be damned.
City officials bought off by a major auto insurance company?
State and local roads were taken care of. Only the interstate, with many multiples more traffic, was a sheet of ice. Thin ice not far below freezing, so it would have taken very little chemical to dispatch it. There will have been many accidents before the night is over.
Not a damn salt truck in sight.
The problem was that the forecast missed it, and it was the worst possible conditions, slight drizzle just below the freezing point. There are no slicker conditions, and they were completely taken by surprise.
?Maybe the auto body shops formed a cartel and bribed somebody.
MoDot says it pretreated roads, yet slick conditions persist
Democrat and union payback you back for voting Trump in.
Then why were state, county and local roads taken care of?
That crossed my mind. They need their asses kicked.
That crossed my mind. They need their asses kicked.
CORRECTED
Democrat and union payback for voting Trump in.
I live in South Carolina. What is this thing called a salt truck?
No pretreat. That’s BS. Your 60 seconds turned up crap.
As a former Missouri resident with hundreds of thousands of road miles behind me now retired in Arizona, I feel your pain. Recent years they had switched to the liquid pre-icing treatment most of the time in lieu of salt trucks for 1-70 on the west side of the state. Involves getting the forecast correct as mentioned.
I don’t miss the ice when driving.
High twenties here. Colder in preceding days, rendering the subsurface cold enough to cause trouble. Any decent model would have predicted major trouble from a little precip.
I drove from Jefferson City to Columbia on 63 about 4 PM. Roads weren’t bad until I got to the airport. From there on it was scary. I took the back roads from the airport. Couldn’t make the last hill on 163. Had to go around.
I didn’t see any evidence of salt trucks anywhere. I heard on the radio that a city salt truck had wrecked on 40 at Midway and had traffic halted for miles in all directions.
> I didn’t see any evidence of salt trucks anywhere.
Exactly. And like I said, the temperature was high and there was very little precip. No excuse. Nixon’s parting shot to the voters.
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