• @[email protected]
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    511 months ago

    I lived in North Dakota for almost 5 years, they dont use salt. Just a sand/dirt mix. Things get really nasty in the spring/early summer when it all starts melting. They were trying out a weird chemical mix when we moved away, i want to say some glycol something or other? It was actually pretty slimy but way better than ice.

    • @kalkulat
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      11 months ago

      I lived there for 11 years… don’t remember much, except when the blizzard turned the road into a skating rink, and the wind (which you could actually see) pushed me across the highway into a ditch. Every morning for weeks, I had to plow through the snow-drifts every 100 feet of the gravel road to get to that highway.

      Oh yeah, and that big buffalo statue, and that world’s tallest tower.

      But I did get a lot of Sci-fi read during the slow season. Those Minot airmen sentenced to the AFB did leave behind a lot of good SF books.