Comment on Is history about to repeat itself?
Soulg@ani.social 10 hours agoThe infrastructure is huge. I drive for Uber during the big ice storm in Texas several years ago around the airports, and every northerner I had in my car commented on how the roads seemed substantially more dangerous than they ever felt in their home states, because of the inadequate plows or salt trucks.
axexrx@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If might be talking out of my ass, but I vaguely remember there being something about road asphalt compositions being different- using more oil in the binder up north, to keep the freeze/ thaw from destroying the road, which also preventings the water from soaking i to it as deeply, making ice accumulate less, (more melted snow runs off the road instead of staying on the surface, and being less slick and adhered into the road.
The payoff being the extra binder makes roads breakdown faster, not to mention having them melt and become malleable under car tires if it gets too hot.