Inches of Snow Hit Eastern USA - January 6, 2025, Dangers, Precautions
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Our focus key is safety, especially road and walkway.
With the snow still fresh, it might be easy to melt, and not really cause a road friction issue. Dangers come usually in 2 forms In regard to roads:
The roads ice up.
If snow is not cleared and nightfall arrives, the once easily manageable snow can become nightmarish when it hardens, and slickspots of ice evolve on roads.
Slush factor.
Many folks may not have been called in to work due to inclement'... When that absence ends and everyone gets on the roads all at once, the heat from vehicles can obviously melt snow, which could be an advantage, as some lanes of traffic start to get clearer; the disadvantage is the melted snow gets pushed to somewhere, and if that melted slush is into other lanes of traffic, eventually the back and forth of the slush going from one area of the road to the next, can turn into accident fodder. It is important that excess slush, and browned snowfall, hail, dirt, road debris and so forth, be removed before it becomes a facilitator of increased dangerous conditions. Walkways can wind up getting blocked as well, which can lead to pedestrians walking in the street, which can be dangerous.
