Mirroring the nation's continuous m...

Mirroring the nation's continuous march toward technology, the battle against snow and ice is increasingly being fought as to a great degree with microprocessors, sensors and computer monitors as with shovel salt and sand.

At the same time, de-icing is taking a back seat to anti-icing - the application of chemicals before snow and ice band to the pavement, an action that requires far smaller quantities of chemicals and may restore salt usage.

Anti-icing, which involves applying chemicals as it was as liquid magnesium chloride, liquid sodium chloride and potassium acetate, relies heavily forward the computers and pavement sensors of road weather information classifications (RWIS) for its effectiveness,

This preventive technique is a far cry out from the conventional way of doing things. beneath the old scenario (one that has not, and probably won't be, replaced entirely, quicks say), if it looked like it was going to snow, driv-ers of plow and salt