Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don - That new asphalt is amazing stuff. It's porous like a sponge. There are short sections of Rt. 128 and 195 paved with it near here. When you hit the new asphalt in a heavy rain, all of the water thrown up by the cars in front of you is just gone and the road noise goes way down. No problems with freezing yet as far as I have seen or heard. May all our highways be paved with it from here on. >Richard, >Correct, it is to remove rain water from the road to prevent >hydroplaning. Although, the Georgia DOT has come up with some pretty >interesting asphalt mixes that actually gets the water off the road >through the asphalt. When properly done, it is quite marvelous. When >the supplier screws up, then you have half a mile of asphalt peeling up >like an orange peel as happened down Savannah way five or six years ago. > >Unfortunately, it doesn't work in areas that get really hard freezes, or >so I have been told. > >Don >dorysrus@mindspring.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org >[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf >Of Richard S. Taylor >Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:15 PM >To: Leica Users Group >Subject: RE: [Leica] You Call that SNOW!?!? > >Those ice storms are really bad. I got caught in the middle of one >in Athens GA one year. There was about a half-inch of ice on >everything. Forget about driving, you couldn't even walk anywhere. >We just stayed inside by the fire for a day or so until the sun >returned and it all melted. I'll take a two-foot blizzard over one >of those any time. > >Why the high crowns, though? Is it to help with rain water run off? > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Dick Boston MA