Letters to the editor: Readers write on salt and sending in the clowns - Oregon

Every major "civilized" city uses salt on its snowy and/or icy roads. Tally up the school days and work lost; the cost of buying chains (if you could find them); the rental SUVs; the broken arms and ankles; the reduction in retail sales; the buses and light rail systems broken down; the cancelled Christmas trips, etc., all because our politically correct city officials are afraid that sprinkling salt on ice will ruin the rivers.

Our city has been crippled for almost two weeks. This is insanity, to say the least. Our rivers run into the Pacific Ocean, which already has salt in it. We cannot allow our lives to be interrupted like this again. Enough is enough.

Spread the salt next time -- and spare us.

KIT HOGAN
Southwest Portland
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Isn't it slick?

Don't you love ruts?

Bouncing near-airborne on ice chunks, getting stuck in mid-lane.

Send in the plows.

But where are the plows?

There ought to be plows.

Well, maybe ... next year.

DANIEL WRIGHT
Southeast Portland