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ST winter verb poll: When a truck comes by to spreading substance on winter roads, you say that is [verbing] the roads.

Posted by ty97 Feb 2 '15, 08:20

Salting?
Sanding?
Something else?

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Spraying or Treating because salt is banned here because it runs off into the rivers and hurts the fish -- nm - Bacon Feb 2, 08:42 1
- Or Deicing the roads -- nm - Bacon Feb 2, 08:42
Salting (though I have no idea what it they use here in TN). -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 2, 08:33
Sanding -- nm - Epiphany Feb 2, 08:32
I say "WTF are you doing, it's 70 degrees!" -- nm - con_carne Feb 2, 08:32
Salting. We don't have sand trucks anymore. -- nm - Andie Feb 2, 08:26 8
- We still have sand but it really is only effective when its really cold so it does not get used often. -- nm - Walt_Disney Feb 2, 08:32
- really? because salt is ineffective below a certain temperature -- nm - zork Feb 2, 08:30 6
  - horrid if you're near a body of water, though. -- nm - Reagen Feb 2, 08:32 2
    - i heard of a guy making a fortune shipping engines to the prairies and car bodies to the east -- nm - zork Feb 2, 08:39 1
      - true dat. I always marvel at how white the highways there get in winter. -- nm - Reagen Feb 2, 08:44
  - Yup. And sand is good for some traction. -- nm - Ultron Feb 2, 08:31 2
    - i like sand, but i am pretty sure we never use it anymore. -- nm - Andie Feb 2, 08:36 1
      - the city puts beet juice in the salt to make it work better in colder weather -- nm - zork Feb 2, 08:42
Salting -- nm - Krusty Feb 2, 08:25
salting or sanding depending but it's usually salt here -- nm - Reagen si Feb 2, 08:24
sanding or salting, depending what they're doing, since it makes a big difference. -- nm - Reagen Feb 2, 08:24
Sanding. As unless it is liquid type, there is sand mixed with the melt. At least around here. -- nm - Ultron Feb 2, 08:21
Salting or treating -- nm - prayformojo Feb 2, 08:21
white dusting -- nm - Max Feb 2, 08:20
Salting -- nm - decline Feb 2, 08:20 2
- this -- nm - loosi at home Feb 2, 08:23
- this, even if they're using something else (beet juice, sand, etc...) -- nm - spamlet Feb 2, 08:21

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ST winter verb poll: When a truck comes by to spreading substance on winter roads, you say that is [verbing] the roads.

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