faustasblog.com - 12/29/2008
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Seattle refuses to use salt; roads “snow packed” by design “If we were using salt, you’d see patches of bare road because salt is very effective,” Wiggins said. “We decided not to utilize salt because it’s not a healthy addition to Puget Sound.” Puget Sound : Puget Sound (pronounced /ˈpjuːʤᵻt/) ...
seattletimes.nwsource.com - 12/23/2008
heliogenic.blogspot.com - 12/23/2008
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heliogenic.blogspot.com —
Let's see, Puget Sound is full of sea
water, sea water is full of salt, but: "The
icy streets are the result of Seattle's refusal to use salt, an effective ice-buster used by the state Department of Transportation and cities accustomed to dealing with ...
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No salt in Seattle
blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com - 1/5/2009
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Yet Another Example Of Liberal Policies Making Things Worse
doubleplusundead —
Yet Another Example Of Liberal Policies Making Things Worse Seattle intentionally didn't salt the roads in order to appease Mother Gaia (I think Ace may have also mentioned this, but I'm not sure). Well, what's happened? Monster trash buildups usually indicative of a trash collector's strike. http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn209/doubleplusundeadnu/450garbage29.jpg But piles and piles of trash linger on curbsides across parts of Seattle where garbage trucks haven't been able to reach for more than two weeks. The good news is that some ...
Seattle P-I Offers Bland Story on Seattle Garbage Crisis, Ignores Salt Ban As Factor
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... story posted to the Web site Sunday evening. Yet nowhere in the story by staffers Brad Wong or Eric Nalder was any blame for the garbage glut laid at the doorstep of the city's Democratic chief executive.
Mayor Greg Nickels may be partly to blame for the trash backlog because of his stubborn refusal to salt the roads during the Emerald City's latest snowstorms. Indeed, as the Seattle Times reported, the city's streets were left snow-packed "by design" (h/t Fausta):
To hear the city's spin, Seattle's road crews are ...
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