I'm not one of those truck owners that needs to have a spic and span looking truck. When I lived in Anchorage I would wash my truck 2 times a year whether it needed it or not! ( It needed it! ) OK I did wash it more then that! I want to wash this truck really bad, but I wont cause it's been below 0 most of the time and already I have my doors freezing shut on me. I can't image how bad they would freeze if I did wash it. This white stuff is not really dirt. They spray something on the roads here that cause this. It's some kind of salt mixed with something. I'm not going to lick it to find out for sure! Well, maybe for $20.00 bucks I might! ( I jokes!)
So does Alaska use a different kind of road-deicer?
ReplyDeleteYou really should wash your car at least once a month here! The salt does a lot of body damage to cars, unfortunately.
The stuff around here just hasn't been working with the cold. Drives in to work have been quite the trip!
Krissy, it's just mainly salt with a little sand mixed in...that's it. Here in Wisconsin the road crews over salt big time. Have you noticed how white the highway looks? They just aim to kill our cars! On the first day above freezing is when you take your car to the car wash and get it cleaned...the weatherman is calling for 35 degrees on Friday, so there you go.
ReplyDeletelick it!...I double dog dare you!
ReplyDeleteSo...I'm dying to hear the bra story. The one in London and the other one too.
And there was that time going down the escalator at the Dimond Center Mall and you got fed up with a wire poking you so you just reached up under your shirt and got a good hold of it and pulled the whole wire out right there! The look of triumph was one I'll never forget!!
tainterturtles - Oh good! I was wondering what got sprayed and if that changed.
ReplyDeleteThe other bad part about the salting of the roads is the white residue in the spring - makes it look like the roads are still snow covered when the ground is brown.
I heard that some states in the lower 48 are starting to use beet juice to deice roads. Wouldn't that be lovely on the roads. Then your truck would be red.
ReplyDeleteI washed my volkswagon when it was really cold once and when I got home the doors were froze shut. K. had to help me get the doors open.
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