At least if you put the salt truck in the ditch it wouldn't cost you any money.
yeah, tell that to the dude that got canned, whom I replaced for part time work from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m, it took 3 excavators, and 10 people onsite, to extract that biotch... then another crew had to come in, and remove the 8 tons of salt, because it happened in a valley with a "protected watershed"... EPA, ODOT, all sorts of fed and State boys on site.. real clusterfark....
I can't even begin to fathom what that dude was thinking, when he ran it off the road... good weed I suspect... anyways, I earned enough $$$$ to buy a new ford plw truck, and buy a ford tractor with a snow blade and bucket, to remove snow locally when plow trucks had no place to "push" snow.... that winter. blizzard of '77-'78 in N.E Ohio.
If it never happened, I would never have learned to ski... I bought gear, and cross country skid across town, went downhill skiing 3 times a week, trained for the Olympic team, and always "loved snow"... We have not seen epic snow like that for many years, but have had some epic "3 day events", which never totaled the 6 to 8 foot accumulations which we had back then, when the temps never rose above 30*F for 45 days.. we simply had no place to "throw" the snow.