re: Question about frozen interstates in Louisiana:

Reminds me of an incident up here where I live. A couple of years after I moved here the highway dept. had just finished making a two lane highway into a five laner, turn lane in the middle. We get a 17 inch snow. The highway dept. sends their blade trucks to scrape the road. What do they do? Instead of blading the snow to the sides of the road they pile it up in the turn lane, about 3-4 feet high.

You can guess the outcome of that ridiculous move. shite would melt during the day and refreeze at night. Had a whole week of sunny weather after the snow but every morning for about five days we woke up to black ice and most days fender benders were still taking place. The HD must have received some irate calls, mine being one of them, because I haven't seen them pull that stupid move again.