Soapy streets in Wolfeboro????
 

Ok, I know I am getting up there in years, as are my brain cells.. but I was driving through Woilfeboro today while it was raining and about a 2 mile stretch of Rt 28 northeast of the center of Wolfeboro and a stretch to the south apeared to be laced with white foamy stuff that sure looked like soap.
Then I got to the Alton Circle and saw the same thing for just a short distance. Was it my imagination or are they street cleaning with detergent :emb: ????????????????????????

I was coming back from western Maine (Greenwood) today and saw the same thing on the roads in Lovell, Fryeburg, Conway, Eaton, Madison, Freedom, etc. Is this a new 'clean highways' policy?

I don't think you're going crazy.

We had a rain storm here in CT. the other day and I was driving along and I too noticed the white stuff. I had stopped at a stop sign that was on a hill and when I accellerated (spelling?) I went into a spin. I originally thought the white stuff was hydraulic oil (mixed with the rain water) from a leaky dumptruck due to the slick road condition.

Now I think the white stuff was a type of pollen that the rain washed into the street.

Anyone have a better idea?

CZ

soapy rain?
 

Same thing on the North Shore of Mass during Monday's rain. Weird!

Soap
 

It might be the spray used to kill mosquitos to control West Nile and EEE, I believe the chemical insecticide Malathion is usually mixed with a soap-like agent as it is sprayed.

Malathion
 

More info on Malathion and it's use in mosquito control from the US-EPA.

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health...mosquitoes.htm

its in the rain?????
 

I noticed the same thing in wakefield ma the other day and thought it was from new pavement . but after reading your posts it obviously is coming from the atmosphere, mabey some type of acid rain.?????????????WIERD

Hair Spray
 

It's Hillary Clinton's hairspray that has been absorbed into the atmosphere and deposited through rainfall.