More WARMING heavier SNOWS!

 Amazingly enough the heavy snow events in US this year are a direct result of heavy glacial ice collapsing into the ocean!  Dropping ice into the ocean has the same effect as adding ice cubes to your beverage.  Colder ocean temps are drawn up into the clouds creating COLDER PRECIPITATION.

If Trump persists in increasing more coal pollution he will also add to the amounts of cold precipitation due over the USA in coming winters!

 Hate the weather - blame Trump!

ICY ROADS - INVENTION NEEDED ICE ANCHORS!

Isn't it rather obvious that relying on a motor vehicle's rubber tires alone to stop movement on ice is like expecting a watercraft to remain in the same place on a body of water?  A boat requires an anchor a toothed object which engages with stable earth and tethers the boat to hold it in place!

So likewise, motor vehicle's should have the option of a metal device with cleats which can be brought into firm contact with the pavement in cases of a total loss of braking or traction of all tires.  Device  could be connected to a hydraulic jack or let drop  with an emergency signal from driver.

Surely an "ice brake" could save millions in insurance claims as well as reducing durations of traffic jams in dangerous  weather conditions.

TIRE STUDS - IT'S TIME - FOR THEM TO RETURN to our roads !!!

EVERY WINTER we see videos and news reports showing the mayhem caused by ICE STORMS and all the motor vehicles, mainly cars sliding helplessly down ice covered pavements until they are "STOPPED" by crashing or bumping into another vehicle, a tree or guardrail.  Climate change is bringing MORE and MORE of these heavy winter storms to our cities and suburbs coast to coast.

 Municipal government's ONLY response is to drench the roads with rock salt and salty 'brine' slurry both of which cost lots of public money AND CAUSE PAVEMENT WEAR AND TEAR as well as damage to agriculture and roadside plants.   Why then is the government STILL BANNING tire makers from adding steel "studs" to SNOW tires ??  The studs enable motorist's tires to grip onto ice covered pavements and remain in control of their vehicles. That doesn't seem like such a bad idea to me when compared to playing mass 'bumper cars' whenever the sleet comes to town!

 The argument against TIRE STUDS was I believe, that they tore up asphalt and damaged pavements where the snow and ice was not present. But that was back in the 1970's when EXTREME weather happened once a decade or so and the pavement "damage" was more of a nuisance than the weather or the road salting at the time.

 Besides with all the technology changes since then I'm sure studded tires could be MARKED and regulated so they aren't used except at NECESSARY times and places.  Or maybe studded tires could be redesigned with some sort of "smart" tech so they worked only when 'needed' ??

 In any case it seems to me that the overall costs of pre-treating pavements and salting as well as the social costs of multiple collisions, economic disruptions and so on that NOW OCCUR with increasing severity and frequency each winter ARGUE FOR REINSTATING STUDDED TIRES for limited legal use !!    

The only OTHER "sensible" option would be to carry an old engine block in the back of a vehicle (Pickup truck) so when the tires begin spinning "push" it out the back to act like a boat ANCHOR !!

Or make small hydraulic "legs" with steel spike "feet" that can drop from the bottom of a vehicle to the street temporarily 'replacing' the vehicle's tires with LEGS  gripping the ice slicked pavement 'till it stops it from motion !! (preventing a collision entirely !!)

I wonder what the Insurance Institute would think about this ???