Ugh it's 1 PM and the roads aren't plowed and there are zero tire tracks

[jpak]

WTF is going on?

Signed paranoid

[GPV]

1. I live near a town that doesn't believe in road salt. Seriously.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

2. Pats lost last night

Collective Depression!

[jpak]

3. LOL!

That explains it

[2naSalit]

6. See?

There had to be an explanation!

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. How much snow, jpak? I have about 3-4" with continuing flurries in Central Maine.

Won't be melting today, I think. I'm heading downtown this PM, glad I have a 4wd vehicle....

[jpak]

9. They just did one pass

Not clear the whole street.

No one is out.

Ugh

[hlthe2b]

5. Depending on temperature, that can be better (Packed snow provides better traction than

freeze-thaw = ice) tracks that frequently become an issue with partial plowing early in storms... Of course, that is not the case if the storm started with freezing rain or sleet.

[2naSalit]

7. It's true.

I just had to run a long, just shy of 600 miles, round trip through snow pack and ice covered roads this past week. I drove for a living year round for quite some time so I know what I'm in for when I have to drive on that stuff. High temps never got anywhere near +32F the whole time so everything was frozen solid except for the varying levels of melt that was going on with the road surface itself. It took over an hour longer each way including being stuck for miles behind a slow moving vehicle who refused to use the pullouts to let others by.

I'm sorry but if you aren't confident in your driving skills on bad roads, stay off of them, especially major routes through mountains where it's two lane for hundreds of miles. Go with Plan B or C.

But I digress...

You're right, a dry road with snow on it is less of an issue, even with up to a foot of it, but once there's ice on the bottom or top, the whole picture changes.

[left-of-center2012]

8. Where ?

[jpak]

10. Central Maine

Where they usually take care of this.

[left-of-center2012]

11. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania

Sometimes it took a day or two to get the drifted snowed in roads plowed.