mark lewis wrote in a message to Mark Hofmann:   
      
      
   TW> Actually in Snow Country they shouuld NEVER allowed using Salt on the   
   TW> streets   
      
    MH> That would help, but you would still eventually get rust from   
    MH> moisture in general.  The salt just makes it happen faster.     
      
    ml> not only that, the salt kills the grasses and other plants along   
    ml> the roadways... my friend lost their entire yard from the salt wash   
    ml> that came down the hill into their yard from the roads... it killed   
    ml> the grasses as well as their trees...    
      
    MH> Our county used to use sand, but has started to use salt like the   
    MH> rest of the state.     
      
    ml> bad bad bad... but folks don't stop to think about things like the   
    ml> above until it happens to them or their family and then they raise   
    ml> all kinds of cain about it...   
      
   I agree, we should go back to earlier times when we used chains or if it was   
   really bad we used the farm tractor and a wagon to navigate off the road   
   around the snow drifts.   
      
    ml> )\/(ark   
      
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   Later,   
   Bill    
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