Salt on Roads

[mdwyer]

Colorado is marked as "Sand or something else". The "something else" is a salt called Magnesium Chloride. They spray it down /before/ snow. It might be less corrosive than the usual road salt, but you still won't appreciate it when your car looks like a frosted mini-wheat.

Mag chloride sucks.

[Cobrajet]

Mag chloride sucks.

Precipitation, in any form, treated or otherwise, SUCKS! (for driving, that is.)

Let is rain/snow between 10:00 PM and 2:00 AM, as long as the roads are dry in time for rush hour.

[Y33TREKker]

Colorado is marked as "Sand or something else". The "something else" is a salt called Magnesium Chloride. They spray it down /before/ snow. It might be less corrosive than the usual road salt, but you still won't appreciate it when your car looks like a frosted mini-wheat.

Mag chloride sucks.

I lived in Colorado for awhile (Longmont/Boulder area), and at that time it was strictly cinder alone that was used. It had a tendency to make a vehicle look pretty bad, and I suppose it was an old school way of doing things, but for the most part it helped provide traction and didn't result in rusted-out body panels, so IMO it wasn't the worst method ever devised.

[Y33TREKker]

Double post.