(02-15-2021, 05:45 PM)Black Aeronaut Wrote:(02-15-2021, 02:07 PM)robkelk Wrote: If things get really bad, consider using bulldozers to clear the roads around your hospitals and fire stations. You won't have enough to do the entire city, but you can clear the emergency facilities. Don't worry about making the roads completely clear, just dig trenches in the snow with a centimeter or so left on the ground.
Fortunately, the volume of sunlight we're getting combined with good old black-top asphalt is doing most of the hard work. The main issue has been the bridges, which not only have undersides for cold air to blow under, but are paved with concrete instead, so they get much less thermal energy from sunlight.
Tonight my brothers and I went out in search of a Whataburger that was open, because someone was craving hamburgers. Part of I-410 was closed, and they were pretty much doing what you said up there - only with graders and front-loaders.
The biggest problem we're having right now is that the sun has definitely been melting everything, so travel during the day is possible... But at night, the temps drop well below zero and everything that melted freezes solid.