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RE: Living with Permafrost (Ground Freeze)
I would also suggest that the huge trucks that now travel on the back roads tear up the roads due to the frost coming out. Municipalities usually have road bans on in the spring for this very reason, but with the changes in farming over the last 30 years, they rarely put up the signs any more. So the huge b-trains travel up and down the back roads fully loaded and tear the shit out of the roads as the frost comes out of them.
Welcome to spring. Years ago, it was rare to see the roads in the condition they are in now.
I would agree that this year is worse than we have seen. However, a friend who used to live in Yellowknife, said this is a phenomenon he is familiar with. And the country roads we encountered in Northern British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Alaska look just like this for most of the year.
Indeed. I'm not dismissing the phenomenon. However, we cannot dismiss the very heavy traffic on roads that were not designed for that kind of weight either. Even in the fall, with no frost in the ground, they tear up the roads hauling the fall harvest back to the yard or to the local elevators.
Indeed. I'm not dismissing the phenomenon. However, we cannot dismiss the very heavy traffic on roads that were not designed for that kind of weight either. Even in the fall, with no frost in the ground, they tear up the roads hauling the fall harvest back to the yard or to the local elevators.