China: Tanks sent to deice storm-affected highways (now out to major highways)

China Daily ^ | 02/03/08

[justa-hairyape]

That kind of excuse didn't cut it for FEMA according to our medias standrads this should have been cleared up within a couple of hours without any help from the effected citizens.

Progressos are held to different standards then Conservatives. The MSM would not have said that about FEMA if a Progresso was President. In fact, when Clinton used tanks to burn women and children alive in their church, the MSM called them a cult and their church a compound.

[nygoose]

Do you use the w409 tires all year around?

[fella]

As Snuffy Smiths’ ‘ole lady once said “Po’ folks, got po’ ways”. Ya buy a set of tires and run ‘em til they need replac’n. Of corse ya rotate and balance at regular interals and keep that oil changed.

[familyop]

...haven’t had them a whole year, yet. It’s hard to know how others would do with them. When I was in my twenties, tires didn’t last long at all. ;-) Now, with the front end kept very well aligned, frequent enough tire rotations, avoidance of big Fords (couldn’t get good front end alignments) and much easier driving most of the time (and not foolishly taking a route through a summer pass in the winter), almost any tire will wear well for me.

If I were in the eastern lowlands, it would be good rain tires during seasons other than winter. It’s much warmer even in Ontario now than here (the Rockies).

[familyop]

"As Snuffy Smiths’ ‘ole lady once said “Po’ folks, got po’ ways”. Ya buy a set of tires and run ‘em til they need replac’n. Of corse ya rotate and balance at regular interals and keep that oil changed."

Yes. LOL! Rain tires are safer for warm months in places that get a lot of rain, though.

[familyop]

"The Hankooks on my wife’s (dreaded) SUV work very well on mudddy and icey Ozarks roads and construction sites where she goes to do her work. She’s even scared a few 4-wheelers by going up hills they were afraid to go down."

Ice in the Ozarks is some of the scariest stuff I've seen--often close to the melting point. ;-)

[Caipirabob]

The tracks break the ice up. If the ice is to deep to break all the way through, the tracks still rough it up enough to make it easy enough to drive on.

Problem is, that most tanks are also heavy enough to destroy the types of roads they have out there. Guess they'll worry about that later. Or not...

[FreedomPoster]

>>Has the US ever deployed tanks and submachine gin fire during a natural (non-riot) disaster ?

I remember a blizzard when there were M-113s out on the highways rescuing people from cars. I think in Ohio.

[RSmithOpt]

Chicom power grid reliability, control and quality parallels that of pet food additives, flip flops, metals, domestic water quality, etc.

[justa-hairyape]

I remember a blizzard when there were M-113s out on the highways rescuing people from cars. I think in Ohio.

That might have been during the Blizzard of 1978 ? It was the worse ever blizzard for Ohio. Saw a video special on that a few weeks ago. They had some vehicles that were stranded on the interstates that no one could get to.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Chinese rulers tend to believe quantity has quality of its own.

[FreedomPoster]

I was thinking late-70s or early-80s, so that’s probably it.

[Thunder 6]

Yep, I’ve been some cold places, but few match the sheer misery of Hohenfels in January!

Regards,

[Rennes Templar]

Ok thanks!

[-YYZ-]

I’m currently running Michelin X-Ice tires on my Accord. They’re currently in they’re 4th winter of use, though, and I probably should have had new ones this year.

Come spring I’m ditching the Michelin MXV-Energy (or something like that) rim protectors on my summer rims and putting some quality rain tires on - in the rain is one time I find traction really lacking around here, especially with those tires.

[Zhang Fei]

Problem is, that most tanks are also heavy enough to destroy the types of roads they have out there. Guess they'll worry about that later. Or not...

Fully-loaded 18-wheelers weigh about the same amount as a light tank, about 30 tons or so. I think the real problem is that tank treads are made of steel and that is what does the damage, in combination with the weight. For 18-wheelers to do this kind of damage, the tires would have to be made of steel.

[Dionysius]

I hear dissidents are great at providing traction!