----- Original Message -----
From: "rex svoboda" <svoboda@marsweb.com>
To: "Gene and Betty burkland" <burklands411@imt.net>;
<tomb@petersen-inc.com>; "Wes Potter" <wester6935@comcast.net>; "Glen
Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:53 PM
Subject: early salt report
> Hi,
> I was at the flats last Sunday and found the following:
> - there is almost no standing water at end of the road or the salt flats
> rest area on the freeway
> -the salt you can "see" from the end of the road is very smooth and very
> thin, 1/4 - 3/8". There are some 4" dia. "holes" where you can see mud
> beneath the salt surface. I walked out a couple of hundred feet and it
> was all the same
> -no pressure ridges yet
> -from the end of the road east to the dike and south towards the freeway
> all looks white and smooth
> -from the end of the road back west a mile and towards the freeway there
> is salt and not dirt, no salt brush or vegetation of any kind. looks just
> like where we run
> -from the end of the road north and a bit west of our usual road to the
> pits there was dirt on the salt from where a car drove out some 1/8 mile
> and got stuck
> -there was almost no salt where you drive down from the asphalt, just a
> thin plate and dirt underneath
>
> We didn't drive out because the snow machine from town had just rescued
> the stuck car. The winds were blasting to the North all day which may
> explain the no water situation.
>
> Rex
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