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using chemicals tor snow removal is prohibitively expensive for anything but primary routes, according to Askew. In addition, he noted that chemicals don't work well on gravel roads anytime or on surface treated roads in low temperatures. With the area’s recent below freezing daytime highs, salt shipments had frozen in Highway Department trucks before they could be unloaded. “We’ll have a problem just using it until it thaws,” Askew said.
In place of chemicals. Highway Department efforts have been aimed at using sand and gravel on hills, curves and trouble spots to give motorists traction—at least in spots, Askew maintained. The rainstorm that followed a heavy snowfall two weeks ago created the “most treacherous thing we've had to put up with,” he commented.
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