Thanks Jim!

I did google this page before. But I wanted to understand the "corrosion
inhibitor" factor of the magnesium chloride. Vern answered that one nicely.

Since the van will be my daily driver, should I be washing it regularly?
Avoid winter driving?

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:

> Hi Tyler.
>
> Oregon uses gravel and on occasion a magnesium chloride de-icer.  Rumor
> had it that they were going to try sodium chloride over the Siskyous on
> i-5, but I don’t know that anything ever came of it.
>
> ODOT actually has a pretty good website detailing such:
> https://tripcheck.com/Pages/winter-road-maintenance.asp#
>
> Welcome to Oregon!
>
> Jim
>
>
> > On Dec 2, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Tyler Hardison <tyler@SERAPH-NET.NET>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm relocating to Bend, OR to take a new position. Given that they get
> > snow, do I have to worry about salt on the roads? Or do they use sand
> like
> > California?
>
> "There is no god and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any single
> religion died out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created
> exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place,
> but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would
> still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again." —
> Penn Jillette
>
>