I work for a road department. Most everyone here has the right idea. Let me put it in simple terms. People drive like total idiots. If they can't drive 75 mph in a snowstorm, they are ticked. They call anyone they can to complain that the roads are icy, even if they know they live in MI. If they go in the ditch while driving 75 on ice, and I'm trying to do my job, but stop to see if they're OK, they aren't scared, they're furious, they didn't have time to be in the ditch, and why wasn't there salt down before they got there. When I go to ask someone if they are OK and come at me with that, I won't say another word, I just turn around, get in my truck and drive away. It's not the farmers and country living type people, they are the only cautious winter drivers. It's the people from the cities, no matter what size, on their way to somewhere. The highways are full of them, and so are the paved back roads. And when the road is slippery, the call, they all call, wanting the road salted, and unfortunately they outnumber the cautious drivers 10-1. The road departments can't win, you have all these idiots calling in wanting ice free roads in the middle of a storm, and in the ditch, and once you get a pile of cars in the ditch, even the law enforcement is asking for salt to prevent idiots from sliding off into one of their officers attending one of the previous slide offs, and the LEO is sick of people chewing on him for the #*$#!*÷^& roads being icy when it shouldn't have been (in winter, in MI). Then to further make things fun, people will and do try to sue the road departments if they wreck on an icy road. Not sure if they are ever successful, but it still costs money to defend themselves. If you are driving on a public road, it should automatically be assumed you are driving it at your own risk, cautious or not. The county to the south of me is being sued for a tree on a roadside that fell on a car driving down the road. Most people would freak out if you told them you were going to cut every tree in their yard back to the right of way. The county I work for was successfully sued for the value of a walnut tree we cut out of our ROW in a yard. But as soon as that tree that a homeowner didn't want cut falls in the road, guess what, it's not their tree anymore, it's ours, and we get to take care of it now that it's on the ground. Just like the roads, everyone is happy to use them, but every time a millage is asked to help pay to maintain it, everyone votes no, then complains about the road. The cost of all road materials has doubled to quadrupled over the last 10-15 years, making less materials the same amount of cost for ever increasing roads and traffic. Salt doesn't cause potholes, frost coming out of the road bed does, and water in,on,under the road does. And people that drive through the small potholes full of water make then bigger, on pavement and gravel. The biggest problem I have with potholes is on the sides of the paved approaches on gravel roads. People apparently aren't aware that they are supposed to drive ON the paved approaches, and in making high speed turns onto the road, will cut the corners of the approaches and make potholes in the gravel along the sides of the approaches. Then stop and complain about the potholes there, after they just drove through it! People have zero common sense anymore. Rant over Have a nice day!
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