Posted by Bill (other posts) on February 09, 2014 at 13:35:31 Previous Next
In Reply to: Re: For ''CEM'' (Follow up on Snow.) 100% OT. posted by Justin on February 07, 2014 at 20:31:42:
: How well I remember trying to keep my car washed as much as I could to prevent that rust caused by the salt.
: Out here the opposite is the case. It is very usual to see a car of 20 or more years older without any rust. If however one lives at the shore, than that is a different store. I am something like 65 miles inland and over the Pacific Mountain Range from our beautiful coast.
Same here. I live five miles from the ocean, and there's a 900 foot high hill in between. We get little salt damage. Out by the beach, the cars are all rusted out. The salt comes through the air, "ocean spray" if you will.
If politicians here were to spread any chemicals on the streets, the environmental types would freak out, because "it would eventually end up in the bay or the ocean and it would kill all the fish". Of course, there's already lots of salt in the bay and the ocean, and it doesn't seem to bother the fish much.
Bill