Hi all,
I've been wondering about this for a while now, so I turn to the collective wisdom of ADUK.
Last week, I happened to be following a grit spreader which was dispensing what appeared to be sand onto the road. It was much finer than grit / salt and was wafting on the wind, which you can just about see in this picture. (We'll leave the small technicality of how I took this picture to another time, ok!)
![Image](http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb319/Rubber_Johnnie/SandSpreader.jpg)
Anyone got any ideas what was going on and in fact why? This was on the day before floods were expected in the area, so I suppose it could be connected, but sand? I went down the same road a few hours later, and it had pretty much blown away, so it wouldn't have done much.