Road to L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland
How is Hwy 430 up to L'Anse Aux Meadows. We really want to go, but someone recently told us that most of the highways in Newfoundland except the Trans Canada Hwy (HWY 1) are not in good shape. My gu...
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Apropros of nothing.
There are years when the frost comes out of the ground in MAY!!! Yes, I said May. In those years the ice sticks around in the Strait of Belle Isle, beside the west coast of Newfoundland. & the ice bergs are right there to watch in mid May.
So, I'll just betcha those 'bad road reports' come from those from southern states who wouldn't understand the word 'frost heave' until they'd been bounced around by 100 of them on their way up the Northern Peninsula.
It takes a good month for the road to settle down and then some for repairs to be all done, after which the summer paving ........ And that's for the roads that have a good 4' of carefully constructed base. Can you imagine the cost for such roads in Labrador or Alaska?
& FWIW, I was in Australia last Sept - Dec. After seeing what the Aussies call bumpy roads (very minor blips), I asked a person or so in Victoria (the one state where they get snow in their winter) if they knew what the words 'frost heave' meant. They hadn't a clue. & they don't have to repave any where near as often as places with real winter.
;)
There are years when the frost comes out of the ground in MAY!!! Yes, I said May. In those years the ice sticks around in the Strait of Belle Isle, beside the west coast of Newfoundland. & the ice bergs are right there to watch in mid May.
So, I'll just betcha those 'bad road reports' come from those from southern states who wouldn't understand the word 'frost heave' until they'd been bounced around by 100 of them on their way up the Northern Peninsula.
It takes a good month for the road to settle down and then some for repairs to be all done, after which the summer paving ........ And that's for the roads that have a good 4' of carefully constructed base. Can you imagine the cost for such roads in Labrador or Alaska?
& FWIW, I was in Australia last Sept - Dec. After seeing what the Aussies call bumpy roads (very minor blips), I asked a person or so in Victoria (the one state where they get snow in their winter) if they knew what the words 'frost heave' meant. They hadn't a clue. & they don't have to repave any where near as often as places with real winter.
;)
