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Originally Posted by gramicci101

Stupid salt lake rain. It's worse than living by the ocean, because the clouds pull the salt water up and then just sit in the valley right on top of you.

Originally Posted by humfrz

I'll just leave this here .......

Salt spray is largely responsible for corrosion of metallic objects near the coastline, as the salts accelerate the corrosion process in the presence of abundant atmospheric oxygen and moisture. Salts do not dissolve in air directly, but are suspended as fine particulates, or dissolved in microscopic airborne water droplets.


Acid rain is rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes. The main cause is the industrial burning of coal and other fossil fuels, the waste gases from which contain sulfur and nitrogen oxides, which combine with atmospheric water to form acids.


At least that's what Wiki told me.



humfrz

Originally Posted by bcj

There's wind in SLC. Lots.
When the waves break, salty droplets get caught up in the air column.
That's mostly what the coastal areas contend with too.

edit: When it's dry, hot and windy salt crystals from the flats get blown everywhere.

I had a car that lived in Hawaii for a while before I got it. $250 worth of cosmetic rust + the rest of the car.

Ya I get the whole sucked up into the atmosphere and then getting pulled back down by the rain thing. I guess it was just the way that Gram worded it that confused me for a minute.