Ugh, February
Feb. 19th, 2019 07:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThe road's a sheet of ice following last Tuesday's sleet-a-thon. I plowed and stuff, but then we got freezing rain and now it looks and drives like a bobsled run. We are supposed to get 4 to 8 inches of snow followed by sleet and freezing rain on Wednesday and I don't have a road I can go in and out without white knuckle terror. So, dunno how that is going to work.
Plowing with a truck is a no-go. It won't make it out the road. Plowing with the dozer... as long as I don't get it on sloped ice (all of my road) it'll be fine. Otherwise, it's like ice-skating on a hill with machinery that will kill you if it rolls. (It is somewhat challenging to roll a dozer, though. Usually it just slides sideways horrifyingly.)
We shall see. It may be that snow will improve the road. Who knows. I didn't do rollback of the sleet and it should still be possible to pry it off the shoulders of the road (and the snow with it) following the snowstorm. I'll have about a foot and a half wide stretch of real dirt underneath one track for this project, which should provide a more-or-less driveable surface, assuming all goes well. No matter what, it's going to be a total shitshow.
Temps are supposed to hit the forties for five days following the snowstorm, so it might melt out after the storm. Might. I mean, eventually it always melts out. It doesn't NOT melt. By the end of March, the road is always passable. But, ah, that space in between the storm and the melt has its moments, made even more fun by the fact that the hard roads are clear and the summer people never ever EXPECT the late-February ICE ROAD OF DEATH and they're angry when they run into it.
Why didn't you DO SOMETHING?
How did you LET THIS HAPPEN?
This road is HORRIBLE.
I really hate February.
Also I forgot my keys today for work.
Plowing with a truck is a no-go. It won't make it out the road. Plowing with the dozer... as long as I don't get it on sloped ice (all of my road) it'll be fine. Otherwise, it's like ice-skating on a hill with machinery that will kill you if it rolls. (It is somewhat challenging to roll a dozer, though. Usually it just slides sideways horrifyingly.)
We shall see. It may be that snow will improve the road. Who knows. I didn't do rollback of the sleet and it should still be possible to pry it off the shoulders of the road (and the snow with it) following the snowstorm. I'll have about a foot and a half wide stretch of real dirt underneath one track for this project, which should provide a more-or-less driveable surface, assuming all goes well. No matter what, it's going to be a total shitshow.
Temps are supposed to hit the forties for five days following the snowstorm, so it might melt out after the storm. Might. I mean, eventually it always melts out. It doesn't NOT melt. By the end of March, the road is always passable. But, ah, that space in between the storm and the melt has its moments, made even more fun by the fact that the hard roads are clear and the summer people never ever EXPECT the late-February ICE ROAD OF DEATH and they're angry when they run into it.
Why didn't you DO SOMETHING?
How did you LET THIS HAPPEN?
This road is HORRIBLE.
I really hate February.
Also I forgot my keys today for work.
