salting roads
De-icing the pavement
Salting roads is the practice of spreading salt on roadways to melt ice or prevent its formation.
The salt lowers the freezing point of water, keeping roads safer in winter weather.
Municipal trucks typically spread rock salt before or during storms: They started salting roads at midnight before the freeze.
The practice damages vehicles and vegetation but remains standard winter maintenance.
- grittingTightening jaw resolutely
- iceWater's solid form
- black iceInvisible frozen road surface
- winterYear's coldest quarter
- snowFrozen crystalline precipitation
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- public worksstreets, sidewalks, sewers, traffic lights, stop sign
- winter activitiesskiing, skating, tobogganing, sledding, downhill skiing
- winter woessnowstorm, blizzard, frost, ice, freeze
- winter skillsskiing, sledding, ice skating, snowshoeing, ice fishing