fatshot
Our local township/city municipalities knew this was coming. The state highway department knew it was coming, 36 hours prior. Yet no salt trucks on the road.
I'm livid. I'm livid because I pay approx 58 cents extra in gas/fuel tax (per gallon!), every single time I fuel up, to help subsidize these societal travel needs, whether it's fixing potholes or putting salt on the road in the winter months.
There are some situations, obviously, one can't plan for. Mother Nature is unpredictable. I get that. But if the guy on the local news channel, 36 hours earlier, is saying, "hey - we've got some bad stuff coming our way" - you'd think that the fuel taxes, the local taxes, the county taxes taken in by the "local authorities" would more than pay for salt trucks and snow plowers to see after the roadways.
I don't mind paying my share of taxes!
I do mind paying money that gets spent on wasteful spending instead of what it was designated for!
Can't get salt trucks out on the primary roads with a 36-hr notice? WTF is going on?
Wife called me last night, told me she was in the parking lot of a grocery store.... visibility to the main road just below her. Said she saw a police cruiser slam into a highway guardrail. The roads were treacherous. I told her to stay there until she felt safe enough to creep out of the parking lot, go down the hill, make a r/t and go to the nearest hotel (providing they had availability). "You don't need to try to come home. The most important thing is that you're safe, even if it means spending the night there in the grocery parking lot."
Took her 45 minutes to travel a single mile to the nearest hotel that was just down around the corner. She texted me around 9:30 (3 hrs later) to let me know she was safe.
WTF! Imagine 58 cents-per-gallon going towards transportational tax. 9 million drivers on average. Do the freakin math.
Like I said, WTF.