Comments on: Saltless In Seattle

By: Blue Crab Boulevard » The Department Of Unintelligent Design

Blue Crab Boulevard » The Department Of Unintelligent Design — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:59:24 +0000

[...] Best snarky blog post title goes to Secrets of Vancouver with their Saltless In Seattle post. (I hate you guys – that was genius). The best part is the very, very telling photos of the [...]

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:31:17 +0000

Down here in the SF Bay area we evaporate water from the bay in large ponds and create salt for use on roads. Has it occurred to the powers that be in Seattle that the rock salt they would be spreading is salt that came out of the Pacific Ocean to begin with?

http://www.cargill.com/sf_bay/about.htm

If they bought salt from Cargill, they would be returning Pacific Ocean salt, not adding any.

By: Nicola Timmerman

Nicola Timmerman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:09:12 +0000

I saw a news report where they used the leftover whey after milking the cows (“curds and whey”) on the roads. It apparently works well. The journalist couldn’t refrain from making all sorts of bad puns.

By: ferrethouse

ferrethouse — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:54:32 +0000

You do realize that they don’t use salt in most of western Canada right? It is why used cars from western Canada are better than used cars from eastern Canada.

By: TJRanth

TJRanth — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:25:34 +0000

Maybe they could take a lesson from Calgary and use gravel; We don’t use salt or “chemical de-icer” up here.