February 4, 2015

When the communities went to buy road salt for this winter, they say the price shot up significantly.  I guess that's why they aren't salting our road very often (maybe once per storm, every week or so).  This is the most I've seen of the asphalt for a while.  Yesterday the road had a nice thick layer of snow/ice, complete with a few chuckholes.  Then this morning they put something on the road.  It was dark like cinders, but the snow melted... in a few places.  It caused a horribly bumpy road due to the thousands of potholes that formed in the packed snow layer.  I'm sure a railroad track would have been a smoother ride.  I was glad when it started snowing this evening, filling in the holes somewhat.