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Unread 12-08-2009, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Chino Valley, AZ
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Anyone been over the hill from Chino Valley to Ashfork?

Road conditions?

I have to run down to Chino Valley from Vegas late tonight.

George
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Unread 12-09-2009, 09:48 PM
 
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Looks like the storm was a THUD!

I mean wow, 75MPH winds, ice, snow, blizzard conditions. It was crazy! We broke the record set in 1966 for precipitation and it was the 5th highest amount of precip ever recorded here during one day in December. Records date back to 1898. Snowfall was around 6".

The damage was extensive and the winds even knocked over cinder block walls. I was surprised that HUSD and PUSD did NOT call a snow/weather day. How dumb was that? A school bus almost wrecked out on the ice/snow. If it did crash & kids got hurt, imagine the lawsuits against HUSD for not closing down for a school.

Unfortunately there was 1 fatality due to a falling tree. Happened in Camp Verde area. Numerous, upon numerous wrecks out here.


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Unread 12-09-2009, 10:47 PM
 
Location: Chino Valley, AZ
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I left Vegas Tuesday Night at 11PM (AZ Time). Fortunately fueled in Kingman. Headed east on I-40 and 7 miles west of Seligman came to a screeching halt.

Set on I-40 from 12:30 to 5:00 AM, before anything moved. Trucks could not get up the hill at Seligman. Road was a solid sheet of 4" ice.

Got to Chino Valley at 8 AM, and then headed back to Vegas. East bound was still completely shut down. I measured the backup as I went by. 11 Miles of trucks two lanes wide.

What a night.

George
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Unread 12-10-2009, 08:48 PM
 
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Man, there are MANY p*ssed off residents here in Prescott. As I predicted, the snow removal was HORRID, and Prescott' response was atrocious.

You gotta read this Prescott Courier article and the response it got from residents. The Prescott trucks started to spread pulverized glass over 10+ streets!

http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?Sec...05&TM=81725.55

The city said it was due to a mix-up & said "sorry" and it will cost $40k to clean it up.

This town is something else. It's like the 3 Stooges are running the city.


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Unread 12-11-2009, 06:58 AM
 
Location: Prescott Valley, AZ
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The Prescott trucks started to spread pulverized glass over 10+ streets!

Pulverized glass is basically sand. Are you afraid of walking barefoot on the beach?

Pulverized Glass (http://www.chiefengineer.org/content/content_display.cfm/seqnumber_content/3138.htm - broken link)
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Unread 12-11-2009, 12:19 PM
 
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Pulverized glass is basically sand. Are you afraid of walking barefoot on the beach?
Wrong.

If it was basically "sand", then why would they be apologizing and having clean up crews go back and remove it?



"The City of Prescott accidentally had used pulverized glass as a part of its road-treatment materials during this week's snow storm. The glass collected at the City of Prescott Transfer Station is crushed and put through a pulverizer (tumbler) to eliminate sharp edges,"

It's not sand that you find at a beach.
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Unread 12-12-2009, 01:28 PM
 
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They used glass bottles that people threw out. They ran them through a "tumbler" and spread it "accidentally" on the street.

Numerous reports of people and animals getting cut from the glass are pouring in. The glass is in some cases almost 1/2" + long and it WILL cut you.

It was not "beach sand", it was glass bottles.
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