The city of Seattle does not use salt on the snowy/icy roads!!!

[AKA_Monet]

The city of Seattle does not use salt on the snowy/icy roads!!!

In the Pacific Northwest, we are having one of the worst runs of snow and ice in 50 years. It has never been like this and many of our Decembers' have been rainy or green.

But this year, we have gotten back to back snowstorms. Traffic is ridiculous. People are stuck on side roads for ~2 hours. The freeways are okay, because the STATE of Washington can use salt on the freeways since they go into the mountains... But the city of Seattle is being anal about being green and chooses NOT to use salt on many of the streets. So people can get to their homes, they cannot get to work and they definitely cannot get to do Holiday shopping...

I can understand that being green is okay for an occasional snow that lasts 2 days. But for 2 weeks we have been wrapped under a blanket of snow and ice. NO salt usage? WTH!!!

Search on Google for the news about this!!!

I am really POed with these people--another reason I am really not liking this place!!!