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In reply to the discussion: How the HELL does a city in the North East run out of Salt in January?! [View all]BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)27. The same way Indianapolis forgot to call in the plow operators
The forecast called for 1 inch. I guess they threw down a little salt in advance of the storm and figured that would do it. But we got 6-8 inches instead when a little cell at the tail end of the storm decided to just sit over the city for abut 5 hours dumping snow.
That isn't an extraordinary amount of snow, but when you don't have many trucks out overnight, it makes a real mess the next day.
For all our technology, it is still a crap shoot on these things.
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How the HELL does a city in the North East run out of Salt in January?! [View all]
diabeticman
Jan 2014
OP
Actually I have never heard of Sand being used it is always salt around here.
diabeticman
Jan 2014
#7
My wife just asked the Penn Dot worker about that and The city we live in general use all salt
diabeticman
Jan 2014
#13
I've been in Chicago my whole life and never seen sand anywhere in the area
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2014
#20
I lived in CT and MD and sand was actually used a lot more than salt. Doesn't
madinmaryland
Jan 2014
#23
No it doesn't melt ice. But it does work well for traction, when salt doesn't really do much
madinmaryland
Jan 2014
#30
Cinder only here. And I'll tell you two things: It WORKS, and it doesn't ruin cars.
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2014
#16
here in western NY, just salt.. back home in maine.. sand. depends on the area i suppose...
dionysus
Jan 2014
#18
No clue to your supply issue. Yet at extremely cold temps salt does no good on roads.
pinto
Jan 2014
#10
Right BUT when the temp was warm enough to make snow they could have used salt to help with
diabeticman
Jan 2014
#14