Here comes the salt

[Z dreams]

Winter in Michigan. Freezing rain followed by hundreds of thousands of tons of salt. Followed by many inches of snow, followed by hundreds of thousands of tons of salt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Walter Moore]

No better down here in Indy. The Z is in the garage for the duration.

 

[Mike]

And, this is what causes your floor pans to rust.  

[bartsscooterservice]

Haha, yeah they are going nuts with the salt here to. I feel somebody has interest $ stocks in salt here..  

[siteunseen]

When you make homemade ice cream you put salt on the ice to keep it cold.  Why do they put salt on icy roads?  We dumb-arse Southerners use sand.

[Mike]

Yep, here on the west they also use sand. They've been talking about spray chemicals but the environmentalists are all over their asses about it.  I agree that salt makes the ice older, but it does melt. The thing I don't understand is why they continue using something that literally acts like acid on everything it touches.  Have you ever seen how salt eats away at concrete ?  We use it on sidewalks here and I can literally see pits and cracks caused by the stuff.  I wonder if there has ever been a class action lawsuit against the highway dept from car owners.  It's horrible on cars. 

[Pop's Z]

I took a drive from Minturn to Leadville, CO this past fall and noticed that the trees on both sides of the road were dead. CDOT uses magnesium chloride on the roads before snowfall. When it melts it runs off both sides of the crowned roads. Keep your zed in the garage in the winter, and take your daily driver to the car wash and use the underbody spray often. Even new cars will rust.

 

Cheers, Mike

[Mike]

Some interesting information I came across about this subject.  Interesting reads none the less.

http://news.outdoortechnology.com/2015/03/24/winter-driving-what-are-they-putting-on-our-roads/

chemmatters-feb2006-salting-roads.pdf