🚀 go-pugleaf

"Ken M." wrote:

> DPH wrote:
> >
> > Anybody else think that maybe VDOT was totally asleep and now at least
> > part responsible for this pileup?
> >
> > The storm was not sudden.  I heard about it coming last night on the
> > radio.  Everyone knew it was going to happen.  And when.  So, were were
> > the salt trucks?  Why was I-95 icy?
> >
> > I think there's just no damn excuse.  A midwest state, this light snow
> > would have resulted in wet salty roads.  Why does Virginia have to lay
> > down on the job?  Now there's at least 1 dead and bunches hurt and
> > thousands of dollars of property damage 'cuz the state can't be bothered
> > to put salt on one of the most dangerous Interstate Highways in the
> > country.
> >
> > Makes me sick...  11 years to retirement.  That big sucking sound you
> > hear will be me leaving Virginia.
> >
> > DPH
>
> First of all, with a weather forecast like this, all schools
> and government agencies should have been shut down -- to reduce
> the amount of traffic on the highways!

Yep.

>
>
> Since the temperatures never went above 25, everything turned
> to ice, quickly. The rest is history.
>
> (ken)

But wouldn't have if the'd have salted the roads.  The roads should have been
simply wet, and especially I-95.

DPH