Since I live in Ohio (Cuyahoga county) you guys (Eoin and Carl) got me
wondering...

According to the ODOT (Ohio Department of Transportation) website...

"ODOT has available 1700 trucks with plows and 650,000 tons of salt stored
at 200 locations around the state.  The average cost for winter operations
is $50 million.  This cost includes labor, equipment, and materials.  During
the winter months roughly 3,000 ODOT employees are available for snow and
ice removal.  The salt use varies from 300,000 tons to 900,000 tons,
depending upon the weather."

I'm guessing that the 1,700 trucks with plows are just the ODOT trucks. Each
municipality usually has a few of their own city trucks to do the streets in
their own city. And then there are all the private snow removal contractors
with plows on their pick-up trucks.

I'd be curious to see a breakdown of number of ODOT plows per county - and
city trucks by city.

And all this has absolutely nothing to do with AC power through capacitors.

-- Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Eoin Ross
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 5:19 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE] AC power through capacitors
>
>
> I heard on the radio that they were debating/questioning road
> issues with the snow in the UK (House of Lords or Commons I don't know)
> Anywho... it came out that they apparently has 500 snow
> ploughs... for the COUNTRY??!!
>
> Ohio would have that in a couple of counties.
>
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> >>> On 06 Jan 10 at 09:25:32, in message
> <4B449D5C.2060607@windstream.net>, Carl
> Denk <cdenk@windstream.net> wrote:
> > If my calculator is right, that's 4.33" of snow. We can get that in a
> > couple of hours, or wind whip an inch into 24" (61 cm.) drifts in 20
> > minutes. an hour's drive East along Lake Erie, the lake effect can dump
> > 60 cm. in 12 hours. Life keeps going here in Northern Ohio. We have 30
> > cm. on the ground and got some freezing rain. People here stock up, if
> > it gets really bad, they have food and stuff for a week. :)
> >
> > Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> >>> plus I get to save going out across town
> >>> in the stinking hot sun.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Lucky you, I cannot get to work today for 11cm of snow, it is
> going to be
> >> hard enough to get to the shop for a newspaper and bottle of
> milk ;))))
> >>
> >>
>
>



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