Even further south, like here in Texas, the problem is almost always ice and almost never snow. (snow? Just wait a couple hours. It'll melt away.) It frequently starts as rain, or maybe snow flurries, but melts as it hits the warm ground. If the temps get low enough, it does eventually freeze.
Speeding is a big problem here, no matter what the weather. People don't seem to understand that light rain is worse for road conditions than heavy rain. It gets moist enough through drizzle or fog to get the roafs slightly wet, and that just makes the road oils float up off the road, and voila!slick rods.
We have a lot of elevated roads, too, since it rarely gets cold enough for them to freeze over. But it does happen - supposedly it's going to tonight.
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Date: 2009-01-27 07:23 pm (UTC)Speeding is a big problem here, no matter what the weather. People don't seem to understand that light rain is worse for road conditions than heavy rain. It gets moist enough through drizzle or fog to get the roafs slightly wet, and that just makes the road oils float up off the road, and voila!slick rods.
We have a lot of elevated roads, too, since it rarely gets cold enough for them to freeze over. But it does happen - supposedly it's going to tonight.