re: #70 Dopamine Fish

In your neck of the woods, it probably would. Interestingly, up here in the wild north country, around this time of the year, plows and salt actually stop being effective countermeasures against snow. The reason? In the -20 °F (-28.9 C) and lower cold, even road salt can’t melt ice, and the compacted snow (from people driving on it) forms a solid layer known as the “Minnesota washboard” that even heavy plows can’t break through to move away. From January through mid-March, when warmer temperatures allow the salt to soak in and free the roads from nature’s hellish grasp, driving anywhere is a precarious endeavor.

I can vouch for this. My three years in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan while in the Air Force taught me a lot.

The first lesson was to never trust another driver who didn’t live in the UP to know anything about driving in the winter.