PSA From Wyoming Highway Patrol

here in New England, our salt is trucked in, i see no reason why AL or any other state can get anything trucked in.

sometimes, we get cargo ships loaded with salt as well, LA has a seaport, doesn't it..???

all states have highway barns, or stations, or terminals, where salt can be stored, then covered over as we do here and any place else..

what is not used for the winter season, carries over for the next winter, and they add to it, to keep the stock on hand up, rather than have any shortages.

there really is no excuse for not having any preparations for snow, ice storms.

 

there have been a "few" winters where there was no need for plow trucks, or salt shakers..that's no reason to not have them on stand-by.

the highway DOT workers have other responsibilities, that keep them busy, then get the trucks ready for a storm in quick time.

really an ignorant/uneducated attitude for the state, to not be prepared.

costs are minimal for a set up for a few trucks, or all the trucks

that once or twice a winter your state gets that kind of weather can be life and death of it's citizens, or other travelers that must go thru.

i guess that state does not value human life....but i bet, they protect wild life

 

but at the very least...they did something....

pre-treating is done here as well, it really does a very good job.

 

It was -19F after windchill yesterday morning... My 5 year old still got on the school bus.

This is the parking lot at work tonight...