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"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy) 01/26/2015 at 14:11 • Filed to: None

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Massachusetts closes at midnight for all non-essential personnel. Curious how the state is going to fight to keep the roads open? Plows and salt... but there's more! They pre-treat the roads with brine, a solution of water saturated with salt. They use rock salt, sand, liquid calcium chloride and more.

Educate yourself!!!

http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/highway/Depart…

Liquid Calcium Chloride: The material works by attracting moisture and releasing heat. When mixed with salt it melts up to eight times as much ice as using salt alone at 20 degrees.

For Sweden > deekster_caddy 01/26/2015 at 14:14

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Have you no reindeer for such conditions?

spanfucker retire bitch > deekster_caddy 01/26/2015 at 14:16

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The Mid-West started doing that last year with the record amount of ice and snowfall. Salt production couldn't keep up. I think Wisconsin was using run-off from cheese production (because of course) as a supplement.

deekster_caddy > For Sweden 01/26/2015 at 14:17

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My wife didn't like them pooping in the house, so the reindeer had to become raindeer.

deekster_caddy > spanfucker retire bitch 01/26/2015 at 14:18

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Yeah I heard about the cheese by-product. Because science!

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/12/12/che…

Cheese Whey freezes at lower temp than salt brine!

alawler > deekster_caddy 01/26/2015 at 14:55

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Liquid Calcium Chloride is just the chemical name for a specific type of salt. Basically they will put salt water on the roads, then put salt and sand on the road, then put more salt water on the road.

noise > deekster_caddy 01/26/2015 at 16:18

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Amherst MA used to use brewery by product.

upside, no ice

downside, everything smelled like a frat house drenched in soy sauce

or maybe that was the frat houses?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > deekster_caddy 01/26/2015 at 17:45

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I'm out on the Vineyard. We're expecting steady winds of 40-50mph with gusts up to 70.

deekster_caddy > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 01/26/2015 at 22:18

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Yeah I don't envy the high winds you guys will see. Good luck and stay safe!!!

pip bip - choose Corrour > deekster_caddy 01/27/2015 at 02:49

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here's an idea , move to another country that's warmer and where salting roads never happens.

like Australia?

deekster_caddy > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/27/2015 at 07:33

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Well I happen to like the snow a lot, having grown up here. This post was only meant to be informative, not a complaint

If rverybody in the world moved to someplace dull, I mean warm, it would get very crowded, very quick.

I'm not a fan if all the different treatmenothey use on the roads, I prefer how they do it in colder places, just plow and sand, because there is no melting it. But where we are there is usuallu near- and slightly above freezing days so if they didn't put all this efott into clearing the roads we would have a lot of ice.