Originally Posted by Machka

Here, instead of plowing the roads, they put down a sand/salt mix. This mixes with the snow and turns it into the consistency of ...... I guess the best description would be ....... you know when you make pie, and you mix the lard in with the flour and mix it together until it gets to a nice consistency so you can add the water. That's about the consistency of the snow/sand/salt mix on the ground.

Then ... we get chinooks so the temperature fluxuates a lot so the snow/sand/salt mix melts a bit and freezes a bit etc. and some of it becomes very clumpy and sticky.

It is a mess! I wish they'd just plow the roads.