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Offline PatriotGame

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Re: Seattle refuses to use salt; roads "snow packed" by design
« Reply #25 on: December 29, 2008, 02:12:56 PM »
A couple comments from some folks living there.

There are 20 plows in Seattle, which uses no salt and has run out of sand at least once. Streets all over the city are closed because of ice on the roads. Most businesses have been closed 4 of the last 5 business days  We have close to 10 inches of snow, with more on the way, in a city that has no means to deal with it, other than to pack it down and pray people don't crash. Driving on some raods is like driving along railroad tracks with the same type of bone-shaking bumping from the ice.

There has been no trash pickup, kids have missed 3 days of school, and the Greyhound buses stopped running, leaving people stranded for 4 days-living in homeless shelters. Then there's all the work missed all over the place. The city buses are running at less than 50% capacity, only stopping on flat roads or major transit centers.


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Normal life has pretty much ground to a stop. Did you see that Seattle has special snowplows with a "softer" blade that doesn't harm the roads as much -- but also doesn't scrape down to the pavement, leaving a slick of ice on every plowed street. Insane. At least they are willing to salt the freeways.


This is absolutely fantastic!
The libtard citizens voted the libtard politicians into office so they deserve to suffer and burn because of their asinine libtard thought process. Of course using a minuscule amount of "connect the dots" logic is beyond the intellectual horsepower of the clueless libtards so they will never "get it"!

Libtards causing their own pain, misfortunes, and angst is truly a wonderful thing to witness.
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Re: Seattle refuses to use salt; roads "snow packed" by design
« Reply #26 on: December 29, 2008, 02:19:26 PM »
Town Roads are smelly but at least there are no vampires.It's better than Seattle's choice.  :hammer:


So the town smells like Gilroy.  No biggie.
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Re: Seattle refuses to use salt; roads "snow packed" by design
« Reply #27 on: December 31, 2008, 03:40:07 AM »
Does the road go close to the Puget Sound?  Because it seems to me that oil, antifreeze, gas, and transmission fluid would make a bigger impact (when the cars go skidding into it) on the Sound than salt.

Then we should ban oil, antifreeze, gas and transmission fluid from the roads.