Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > >Nah, Walker, yawl is......... > OK, I stand corrected. Guess I'll get my F&W out next time, huh? ;^) BTW, it's only going to be 63 here today............ and NO SNOW!! Regarding high road crowns, I clearly recall my father explaining that early roads were built with extremely high crowns to achieve rapid water run-off. Engineers soon found that a much-less severe center rise of the road crown - a couple of inches - worked just as efficiently. The conversation came about because the road that ran by our house had a crown at least 8 or 10 inches higher than the edges of the road and I asked why. This was in Maryland and more than 40 years ago. Having now lived in Georgia for more than 17 years, I can state that the roads in this area do not have excessively high crowns. I can't speak for farther North. Walker