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[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

I would much rather drive on snow then ice.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

I would much rather drive on snow then ice.

I prefer driving in neither.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

I guess because you have machines to get the snow off of the road. If it snowed 1' here, I guess we'd have to call the national guard or something. I remember it snowed 5" one night and they shut down the interstate and most highways.

LOL they don't have plow trucks down there?

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

If you have any questions about areas let me know I have lived all over this state mostly metro area though.
Me and the wife are planning to move to FL in the next few years if the market gets any better. When we bought in 2004 we planned on staying 2-3 years and selling (with profit), selling FL condo and buying a house somewhere on the Space Coast. If only we had known everything was going to turn to shit we would have skipped buying here.

We are getting too old for the snow and as DeMan mentioned getting up a hour early to go shovel a driveway and scrape ice off your car only to then drive an hour in a blizzard to come in and do my long 13 hour shift is FTL.

That is why you pay a local colored kid to do it. When I was a kid I loved shoveling snow. When I was done we would build a fort and have all kinds of fun.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

No, why would they need them when it snows so infrequently?
I lol when new people come in from other bases...calling it late because they are waiting on a snow plow. What snow plow? I have never seen one it real life. I guess somone could rent a bulldozer or something.

Don't they salt the roads? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

I guess because you have machines to get the snow off of the road. If it snowed 1' here, I guess we'd have to call the national guard or something. I remember it snowed 5" one night and they shut down the interstate and most highways.

****. 5in isn't uncommon here during the winter.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

LOL they don't have plow trucks down there?

It's a waste of municipal budget to buy things they may never use for years.

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

they put down sand and a mix of something else that's supposed to melt the snow/ice

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

This is of continued debate.
They salt them at night, but not during the day as usually it is warm enough to melt the snow. Then at night it freezes again. I think they are trying to convert to sand because it keeps traction during the night and day. Furthermore, no one wants to pay for the salt and stuff, so it gets cut out of the budget.

In Michigan the salt trucks double as plows. The plow is underneath the truck and shoves the snow to the side and the salt comes out the back.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

I think I successfully trolled ken448

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

Snow blows. I am not looking forward to another shithole Nebraska winter.

I cant wait to get back to Texas //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

I don't think people up North have the same concern for taxation as people in the South. Up North, for things like this they increase taxes...in the South, people are more or less on their own to figure it out.

In Michigan Granholm has been trying to decrease taxes and the republican house or state legislature or whatever they call it, will not allow it. The north is going to have a huge road budget. Not only the plowing and salting of roads, but more construction due to the winters effect on the road.

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

Snow blows. I am not looking forward to another shithole Nebraska winter.
I cant wait to get back to Texas //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

I have a feeling it's gonna be worse this year. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

This is more like the trucks they use to haul where they cut down trees. Not quite a semi truck, but is open in the back. Maybe a cross between a dump truck and a semi....
How does that plow thing get through several feet of snow?

Michigan doesn't get several "feet" but they start plowing before it accumulates.

 

[97gp 5,000+ posts]

I like snow, im getting new tires on the whip as we speak.