Letter: True grit - but why? Where's the ice and snow?

Letter: I had to check my calendar on February 3 to make sure I hadn't missed a couple of months. Yeah, I thought it might be April 1 already.

My reason? At approximately 6.30am I was driving along Belle Vue Road, Shrewsbury when I saw flashing orange lights on an oncoming vehicle.

I moved over to my left, assuming it was a wide load vehicle.

To my amazement it was a gritting lorry and it was spreading salt/grit on the road.

The temperature at the time was I think about five degrees.

So can someone please explain the logic behind this. Do SABC have an excess of this substance? Are they having to get rid of it to make room for some other substance OR has someone gone bonkers?

Hopefully we have seen the last of the really bad weather because I would hate SABC to say at a later time in the month "we are short on salt/grit".

I had to buy my own salt to ensure I could get my work van out of my road at 3.30am in November, December and January so, if you have an excess of salt, I will pick it up and won't charge you for disposing it for you.

Kevin Howes

Telford