mark lewis wrote in a message to Mark Hofmann:


TW> Actually in Snow Country they shouuld NEVER allowed using Salt on the
TW> streets

 MH> That would help, but you would still eventually get rust from
 MH> moisture in general.  The salt just makes it happen faster.  

 ml> not only that, the salt kills the grasses and other plants along
 ml> the roadways... my friend lost their entire yard from the salt wash
 ml> that came down the hill into their yard from the roads... it killed
 ml> the grasses as well as their trees... 

 MH> Our county used to use sand, but has started to use salt like the
 MH> rest of the state.  

 ml> bad bad bad... but folks don't stop to think about things like the
 ml> above until it happens to them or their family and then they raise
 ml> all kinds of cain about it...

I agree, we should go back to earlier times when we used chains or if it
was really bad we used the farm tractor and a wagon to navigate off the
road around the snow drifts.

 ml> )\/(ark

 ml> ___ 
 ml>  - Origin:  (1:3634/12.42)

Later,
Bill 
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