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Potholes, road salt and climate change: Warmer Maine winters raise new concerns
Portland Press Herald ^ | March 13, 2022 | BY PETER MCGUIRE

Posted on 03/13/2022 7:15:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

....assuming that global warming is anything but made-up claptrap.


21 posted on 03/13/2022 7:47:26 AM PDT by nagant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The state highway in front of our house was concrete poured in 1933. They used coal cinders for snow traction. Everyone used studs. No potholes until the mid sixties when they started using salt, the concrete was asphalted over in a couple years. Think the auto industry was okay with their cars being rusted out and beaten up? Of course they were — they made billions replacing them. They probably paid for the salt.

Now the highway is milled and repaved every five years, with constant heroic pothole maintenance — still there are always deep potholes. Zero maintenance for thirty years, now millions every year, and terrible damage and death from potholes and salt.

The cinders were perfect — they provided traction, and they absorbed sunlight to melt the snow. The salt has killed every small stream in the region — the first thaw sends nearly saturated brine down the waterways — nothing survives. We’re “salting” our own earth.


22 posted on 03/13/2022 7:48:57 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change does what to local weather patterns? Nobody was around the last time we were in a interglacial period, so how would science know what an interglacial period is actually like?


23 posted on 03/13/2022 7:52:41 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: WellyP

[[“...New England has lost three weeks of winter in the past century, and “mud” days have increased by up to a few weeks per year, said Sarah Nelson, director of research at the Appalachian Mountain Club...”]]

Gosh I wonder ehat all the pearl c.utchers were screaming about when the miles thick glaciers that covered the Eastern states melted due to warming? Did they sit around and say “golly, potholes will become worse, and spring will arive earlier and fall will last longer. We must tax the crap,out of everyone to stop this madness!” (Yes I know, people weren’t around d)


24 posted on 03/13/2022 7:52:52 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: stanne

Yeah, interesting how climate change can be so selective.


25 posted on 03/13/2022 7:54:46 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It can’t get much warmer at the Equator everything will catch fire and water will boil but that will cause clouds and then cooling , the planet knows what it’s doing if it didn’t we would NOT BE HERE


26 posted on 03/13/2022 7:56:33 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: nascarnation

Yeah, but I’m sayin’, that TruCoat, you don’t get it and you get oxidization problems. It’ll cost you a heck of lot more’n five hundred-


27 posted on 03/13/2022 8:05:11 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hey there up in Maine! I live in Atlanta. The warmer weather does NOT cause more freezing weather, frost heaves, or any of that stuff. We don't have to salt our roads, and just stay off the roads one day out of the year because of that black ice.
28 posted on 03/13/2022 8:06:02 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We just had the coldest winter in years.


29 posted on 03/13/2022 8:06:44 AM PDT by cp124 (80% of everything is fake)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thet should either make it snow more or move the state to someplace with a warmer climate,


30 posted on 03/13/2022 8:07:56 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: stanne

Here in Western NY, we’ve had really cold winters where we got snow that stayed from early December to late March, and years with near zero snow that stayed for more than a day or two.

With a lifetime of experience here, Winter starts a week to two before the solstice, and the hardest time is 4-6 weeks after the solstice (mid Jan to early March). In the summer our hottest times are 4-6 weeks after the solstice (mid July to late Aug). The intensity and duration of either of these events is variable.


31 posted on 03/13/2022 8:17:20 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (The democRATS are not looking to govern, they intend to RULE.)
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To: SkyDancer

It was 9 above when I got up yesterday morning here in beautiful, romantic illannoy.


32 posted on 03/13/2022 8:23:19 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate “change”, where change is the only constant.


33 posted on 03/13/2022 8:25:33 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Biden admin BS.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whenever someone brings up “climate change” you know immediately you’ve got an irrational idiot on your hands.


34 posted on 03/13/2022 8:25:56 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SkyDancer

It was 9 above when I got up yesterday morning here in beautiful, romantic illannoy.


35 posted on 03/13/2022 8:27:17 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Warmer winters?? What idiot never went outside this winter?? It was freaking COLD nationwide!


36 posted on 03/13/2022 8:27:36 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: libertylover

I live rurally, just outside the People’s Republic of Portland. We’re totally enjoying the mild winters of late, but I’ve been around long enough to know winters are cyclical. Next year could very well be one barn-burner after another.

I’ll take what I can get, shy of becoming a snowbird.


37 posted on 03/13/2022 8:28:40 AM PDT by pingman ("I ain't in no ways tarred.." of WINNING!)
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To: Born to Conserve

“We’re “salting” our own earth.”

You should see the Magnesium Chloride white cloud in Denver. In the Winter, Denver’s Summer brown cloud is replaced with a salty white cloud. The nasty health effects are never spoken of. Come Summer, the news simply reports that the National Jewish hospital is seeing increases in lung issues. Trees along all roadways are dying. It was an obvious effect of the return to salt and chemicals in Colorado.


38 posted on 03/13/2022 8:31:44 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Ouderkirk

Do you get 3 weeks less of winter since 1022?
As this woman from Maine is claiming?


39 posted on 03/13/2022 8:38:17 AM PDT by stanne
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To: CodeToad

Well golly gee. What with all those high tech government labs in Boulder...

“Boulder is the home of scientific laboratories for the U. S. Department of Commerce’s NIST, NOAA and NTIA. Clustered on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder Colorado, these labs are the home of scientific research and engineering in the fields of electromagnetics, materials reliability, optoelectronics, quantum electronics and physics, time and frequency, earth systems, weather and telecommunications.”

...one would think they’d be the first to sound the alarms. Must be something in the air causing all that brain fog.
;>)


40 posted on 03/13/2022 8:40:47 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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