Posted by Justin (other posts) on February 07, 2014 at 15:40:20 Previous Next
In Reply to: Re: For ''CEM'' (Follow up on Snow.) 100% OT. posted by Long Hair In Albany on February 07, 2014 at 11:02:13:
Hi
: I would mention that up here in the frigid north of New York if you
: want to know what is in that snow, just look at our snow here.
*I can well imagine. I used to live for many years back in New England and know so well what Winters are like there. Yikes! :-)
: If the snow falls today it will be nice clean and white.
: Come back several weeks (months) from now and you'll find the snow
: very different. It will be caked brown, have lots of trash in
: it, and who knows what other junk is in it. And that all makes
: it's way into the water supply.
*Yes, how true. I remember how it did that back in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's until I left.
: Now to be fair alot of that stuff in the snow is road salt and sands for the inevetable ice. But there is also lots of other stuff in there too.
*How well I remember the salt(mostly)and sand would eat up the cars no matter how good the "Rust Proofing" was on the Auto.
: I would also point out that we'll have huge piles of that
: will still be around in june due to all junk in that snow.
*OMG. In Wethersfield CT. where I used to run my dogs was also a place that trucks dumped snow to get itoff of the highways or wherever. Those mounds were like little mountains and even in July had not melted all the way. Just frozen black junk and the temps. by then were in the 80's and 90's.
Nice hearing from you and thank you very much for the comments.
Justin~
ps: Where I live sand is not allowed. There are very few plows in the entire state as we are not geared for this. My snow samples were taken as the snow was still falling. No plows, barely any cars on the roads and the samples taken far way from any streets. The ground had been frozen and was as hard as ice itself with no give to it when walked on.