Stupid Snow. Stupid Roads.

So we are having more bad weather. I'm getting tired of snow. One day of it is okay. It comes looks pretty and then goes away. Great, love it. What I do not love is this every other day crap. At least we aren't expecting ice like other parts of the country. My husband actually went to work today. He will do anything to get out of the house. I do mean anything. He hates to be cooped up. Never fails, the weather will be bad and he will dream up an excuse to go to town. Everytime. At least him going to work won't cost me money. Last year during the ice storm it cost me a chain saw and a cold. There I was 5/6 months pregnant outside in the cold crappy weather making sure my husband didn't kill himself with his new "toy".
They finally came and plowed our gravel road. I wonder if the plow guy misread his map. They never do our road. The neighbor usually ends up getting us a path to the main gravel road with his tractor and bucket.
I might have pd'off the county road guy. We wouldn't have such issues if he did his job and got us a load of gravel for between our house and the stop sign after we thawed out last spring. The county doesn't want to spend money on our mile of the road because we are the only house on our stretch and it isn't frequented by more than 5 other people. Mostly farmers that have land on this road. Guaranteed, they aren't complaining about the condition. The road is usually fine during the times of year that they use it. Supposedly they only have so many miles of gravel they can do. I don't want the whole mile. Just my 1/8 mile. That is it. I could care less about the rest of the road.
Last spring when we started to thaw out we had about 3 inches of mud. They use river rock up in this area of the state. River rock is not good for use on gravel roads. It belongs in the bottom of the river. That is why it is called 'river rock'. I grew up in the southwestern part of the state where they use limestone. Limestone is hard and angular so it packs really well and doesn't tend to move that much. After awhile it becomes really hard almost like dusty pavement. Well river rock is round and smooth, never packs and shifts all the time.
Then you have the idiot road graders who drive way fast while grading and make the whole road a rumble strip. They move the "gravel" from one side of the road to the other, leaving exposed dirt to drive on.
Me being me might get annoyed once in a while and call the county engineer, who is the one that is to decide where the money gets spent on the road maintence, and bitch. During last spring I called him everyday. I do mean everyday. He started to avoid me. So I started to call more than once a day. I wish it wouldn't have to come to that. Hopefully he doesn't run again. I don't know what the road department spends their money on because all the gravel roads suck here. I had to warn him that my road wasn't a level b "enter at your own risk" road and that if I ever got stuck on it, in mud, that the county would not be able to afford the lawsuit. That it would just be cheaper to keep my road well maintained and that didn't mean to grade it every week. Since then the road has been alot better. I've only had to call maybe 5 times in the last 5 months. Much improved from where we were.