I put a ball cap on to keep the sleet out of my eyes, and let my ferocious hair and manly beard take care of keeping me warm.
Ahem.
Anyway... I dunno how it is other places, but the ones I've lived that routinely get snow, the city assumes that the citizenry have basic winter skills and only plows when necessary. Their Stage One snow plan doesn't call for the plows to come out until we have 4 inches on the arterials, at which point they plow the main roads and cover the side roads afterwards. Stage Two is when we have 6 or more inches, at which point they say "Yer on yer own" about the side roads and only worry about the main roads.
They'll use de-icer sometimes, but to keep costs down they use one that only works down to about 12F or so. If the temp drops below that, it actually makes the ice worse, so they don't bother using it and instead throw a few handsfuls of sand about.
The tire stores round here make a killing selling snow tires to the panicky ones. Those of us that've been around a few seasons get our all-season tires siped and go about our merry way.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Ahem.
Anyway... I dunno how it is other places, but the ones I've lived that routinely get snow, the city assumes that the citizenry have basic winter skills and only plows when necessary. Their Stage One snow plan doesn't call for the plows to come out until we have 4 inches on the arterials, at which point they plow the main roads and cover the side roads afterwards. Stage Two is when we have 6 or more inches, at which point they say "Yer on yer own" about the side roads and only worry about the main roads.
They'll use de-icer sometimes, but to keep costs down they use one that only works down to about 12F or so. If the temp drops below that, it actually makes the ice worse, so they don't bother using it and instead throw a few handsfuls of sand about.
The tire stores round here make a killing selling snow tires to the panicky ones. Those of us that've been around a few seasons get our all-season tires siped and go about our merry way.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs