I Wander » ice seattle http://koshal.org the world as I see it... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:52:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Seattle & Snow http://koshal.org/2008/12/26/seattle-snow/ http://koshal.org/2008/12/26/seattle-snow/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:26:22 +0000 kosh http://www.koshal.org/?p=561 If you have  wondered why Seattle sucks at clearing snow and ice from the road -

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008551284_snowcleanup23m.html

And some more information from the SDOT website -

Equipment on Site(City of Seattle)

  • Trucks Fitted with Snowplows and Sanders: 24
  • Trucks fitted with Snow Plows: 4
  • Graders that can be used as snowplows in tandem with a sand spreader: 1
  • Liquid De-icer truck: 1
  • Front-end Loaders: 5
  • Various Trucks for support Activities: 44
  • Mechanical Street Sweepers for sand clean-up: 8
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