We had a winter storm that coated the countryside with a glaze of ice. Schools close and traveling by automobile is impossible when the roads are a sheet of ice. The trees look cool when this happens as you all enjoyed the macro photo's from yesterday here.
Scraping the thick layer of ice off the windshield
As you can see in the photo's, our car was covered in ice, and the ice had to literally be chipped off the windows to see. Many of you may not be aware, but here we can purchase a tool for this, it's called an ice scraper, and it doubles as a snow brush on the other side.
You can see the coat of ice on the car door
When we get an ice storm like this driving you automobile gets crazy, and stopping it is even worse!! But the City has the equipment to handle these situations.
The road was glare ice in front of our house
A large dump truck comes by and scrapes the road at the same time it spreads salt. The salt begins to melt the ice (a chemical reaction) and the city purchases tons of the white stuff each fall. As you can see, the truck needs chains on the back tires to drive on the ice.
The scraper is under the truck cab, salt spreader in the back
A few hours after the truck spreads the salt, the snowplow comes and plows the loosened ice to the sides of the road. In doing so, they also deposit a large pile of ice in everyone's driveway. But we are happy to have the ice gone!
Snowplow going by our house
After this process is complete, the roadways are fit for travel again. The schools open, and everything returns to normal. We are grateful for the advance planning and the road crews.
Compare this to the before photo, much better
I hope you enjoyed this winter ice storm experience, thanks for visiting
