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MontanaBob
15 years ago
Absolutely true.........only 1 hour old story.

I had to run into Missoula, about 9 miles from our home, to visit my fav-o-rite store........WallyMart to pick up a prescription. It has been snowing off and on (more on than off) since the blizzard of Saturday that did Appalachian State in. The roads are in pretty good shape, which is to say they could hold every sport in the winter Olympics on US 93 between Lolo and Missoula. I raced my 4x4 down our hill at about 2mph which was about 1 1/2 mph to fast and skidded to a stop at the stop light at highway 93. Antilock brakes and skid control on my Ranger work well.

As I'm waiting for the stoplight to turn green, a county sanding/de-iceing truck goes by headed toward Missoula. "Great", I thought. "I can follow this guy into town and stay on the gravel and de-icer he's laying down. Piece of cake."

I get behind him and stayed back a safe distance......I just replaced the windshield on my truck in October...and we're cruising along about 25 mph. I'm back far enough that through the blowing snow I can still make out his flashing lights on the rear of the truck. That's at least 20 feet.

I glance in my rear view mirror and make out the flashing lights of another county truck coming up behind us. "Wow," I thought. "They are really hitting this road hard today." Then, I do a double take in the rear view mirror, and yup, you got it. The second truck has his plow blade down and is plowing the highway.

I stay behind the first truck and we come to a stop light in Missoula. I'm on the inside lane and a car pulls up beside me and the driver gestures for me to turn my window down. He yells over to me...."Do you believe those two idiots in the plows? I can't believe I saw what I did. The first guy puts the sand and de-icer down and the second dummy plows it up."

Only in Missoula County....which is why the biggest selling bumper sticker here reads........."KEEP MISSOULA WEIRD!"
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IronMan
15 years ago

I'm on the inside lane and a car pulls up beside me and the driver gestures for me to turn my window down. He yells over to me...."Do you believe those two idiots in the plows? I can't believe I saw what I did. The first guy puts the sand and de-icer down and the second dummy plows it up."

"MontanaBob" wrote:


Good team work! 🙂
dfosterf
15 years ago
Haven't you guys heard?

They were "green" de-icing.

They are now required by Federal law to plow it away immediately, otherwise the county has to pay a carbon tax in the event of roadway warming and subsequent inadvertent and catastrophic county melting.

I'm sure the EPA will be out with their hazmat teams to sequester the damage to the snowbanks prior to the spring thaw. I heard they plan to store the contaminated snow in California, because Nancy Pelosi's district needs the jobs.

The 10 gazillion dollar 10 billion btu solar/wind/cannabis/undocumented worker-powered refrigeration unit is scheduled for completion in 2050, in the meantime, they'll probably just throw some dry ice around the piles (dry ice-aka co2, lol) little global warmin' humor.
Pack93z
15 years ago
There is a way of thinking here in Wisconsin that makes this absolutely no shock... never ever underestimate the laziness or silliness of a county worker.. do as little as possible while taking as much time as one possibly could imagine.
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"
vikesrule
15 years ago
State Workers

A fellow stopped at a rural gas station and, after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola, and he watched a couple of men working along the roadside.

One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man came along behind and filled in the hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the old.

The men worked right past the fellow with the soft drink and went on
down the road.

I cant stand this, said the man, tossing the can into a trash container and headed down the road toward the men.

Hold it, hold it, he said to the men. Can you tell me whats going on here with this digging?

Well, we work for the government, one of the men said.

But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up. Youre not accomplishing anything. Arent you wasting the taxpayers money?

You dont understand, mister, one of the men said, leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow. Normally theres three of us: me, Rodney, and Mike. I dig the hole, Rodney sticks in the tree, and Mike here puts the dirt back.

Now just because Rodneys sick, that dont mean that Mike and me cant work.
MontanaBob
15 years ago
Good one Vikesrule. +1

We got freezing rain now and I have to go substitute at noon today. Wonder which way my truck will slide down the hill today. With any luck that guy in the sanding truck from yesterday will get a bright idea and get our hill.











Naw!!!! The other idiot will be right behind him plowing it off.
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Cheesey
15 years ago
Doesn't surprise me.
But i loved the "global warming" joke inserted by Dfoster!!!
(Although, i'm not so sure it IS a joke!)
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DakotaT
15 years ago
Your states use de-icer. We just wait until spring. No wonder your states are all broke.
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