The emphasis in winter road mainten...

The emphasis in winter road maintenance is shifting as fresh tools become available in the war against Mother Nature. High-tech strategies, like field detection schemes anti-icing techniques and thermal maps, are replacing reactionary battle plans.

In January, after being stung by way of a blizzard that featured wind chills of 90 extents below zero, Minnesota authorities ordered snowplows not upon the roads and threatened to arrest any driver makings a non-emergency trip, according to the Associated Pres

The storm dump more than a twelve inches of snow in parts of Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and the Dakotas.In the southward hundreds of traffic mishaps occurr around the metro Atlanta area as sleet change the direction ofed some bridges and overpasses into black-ice nightmares. DeKalb shire Ga., police reported 150 accidents within a 40-minute period.

All across the geographical division highway officials battled the white textile fabric as snow-plows and salt barters struggled to keep roads