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Missouri Department of Transportation not deicing Interstate highways - what's up?
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Posted on 12/16/2016 7:03:05 PM PST by old-ager
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:03:05 PM PST
by
old-ager
To: old-ager
Salt might harm the plant life near the highway, humans be damned.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:05:54 PM PST
by
Kenny500c
To: old-ager
City officials bought off by a major auto insurance company?
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:06:26 PM PST
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Females DESTROYED America.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
State and local roads were taken care of. Only the interstate, with many multiples more traffic, was a sheet of ice. Thin ice not far below freezing, so it would have taken very little chemical to dispatch it. There will have been many accidents before the night is over.
Not a damn salt truck in sight.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:08:33 PM PST
by
old-ager
To: old-ager
The problem was that the forecast missed it, and it was the worst possible conditions, slight drizzle just below the freezing point. There are no slicker conditions, and they were completely taken by surprise.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:09:27 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
?Maybe the auto body shops formed a cartel and bribed somebody.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:10:26 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: old-ager
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:11:48 PM PST
by
willieroe
To: old-ager
Democrat and union payback you back for voting Trump in.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:13:09 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Then why were state, county and local roads taken care of?
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:13:40 PM PST
by
old-ager
To: Iron Munro
That crossed my mind. They need their asses kicked.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:14:05 PM PST
by
old-ager
To: Iron Munro
That crossed my mind. They need their asses kicked.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:14:13 PM PST
by
old-ager
To: Iron Munro
CORRECTED
Democrat and union payback for voting Trump in.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:14:23 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: old-ager
I live in South Carolina. What is this thing called a salt truck?
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:14:27 PM PST
by
buckalfa
(I am deplorable.)
To: willieroe
No pretreat. That’s BS. Your 60 seconds turned up crap.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:14:49 PM PST
by
old-ager
To: old-ager
I just picked my wife up from the airport - she was in Springfield all week for a management seminar, and she said it was colder than a well-digger's ass there today.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:14:50 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(My attitude in your rear view mirror may be bigger than it appears......)
To: old-ager
As a former Missouri resident with hundreds of thousands of road miles behind me now retired in Arizona, I feel your pain. Recent years they had switched to the liquid pre-icing treatment most of the time in lieu of salt trucks for 1-70 on the west side of the state. Involves getting the forecast correct as mentioned.
I don’t miss the ice when driving.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:15:28 PM PST
by
KC Burke
(Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
To: old-ager; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON
Is Jay Nixon still governor? Sorry, may not be pertinent to this particular problem, but a Democrat, excuse me,
Independent, yeah, that's the ticket.....Nixon's such
a close talker even a (blank) like Obama is uncomfortable.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:16:12 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
To: Viking2002
High twenties here. Colder in preceding days, rendering the subsurface cold enough to cause trouble. Any decent model would have predicted major trouble from a little precip.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:16:44 PM PST
by
old-ager
To: old-ager
I drove from Jefferson City to Columbia on 63 about 4 PM. Roads weren’t bad until I got to the airport. From there on it was scary. I took the back roads from the airport. Couldn’t make the last hill on 163. Had to go around.
I didn’t see any evidence of salt trucks anywhere. I heard on the radio that a city salt truck had wrecked on 40 at Midway and had traffic halted for miles in all directions.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:18:09 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
> I didnt see any evidence of salt trucks anywhere.
Exactly. And like I said, the temperature was high and there was very little precip. No excuse. Nixon’s parting shot to the voters.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:20:55 PM PST
by
old-ager
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