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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why they didn't pre-treat 95/495.

I get that no one believed the snow would stick due to the warm temps, especially so much of it. But I drove on it Sunday night around 8pm, and there was no pre treatment on the highway whatsoever.  Nada.

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VDOT has stated that they couldn’t pre-treat the roads because this storm started as rain and everything would’ve washed away. [/quote]

I don't believe that. There was never pouring rain. Temps fell fast, and it was light freezing rain and sleet before switching to snow. I don't think VDOT believed the weather forecasts like most of us. It was dry when I drove home Sunday night, and there was no pre treatment anywhere, so they didn't even try. [/quote]

It poured in the middle of the night before the snow started. [/quote]

The pre-treatment wouldn't have worked for the same reason that the snow stuck, even though the pavement was nowhere near freezing, it had been 60 degrees earlier, it was coming down at such a fast clip. My DS took his sled out while it was still snowing, left it on the lawn, and came back into the house, 45 mins later there had to have been 6 inches of snow on the sled.

Not much you can do about that intensity. [/quote]

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