Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 04, 2018

Anybody that has lived in that type of climate, knows what the problem is.

(hint: ice)

Dragons don’t have flaming poop do they? There is a lot of gas back there…..

Looks like a job for Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid!

Have to be a bit careful – might set the road surface on fire.

Does Daenerys Targaryen know about this??

Yeah, I’d go with a smaller dragon, if I were you.

The exploding cars would be an additional source of snow-melting heat.

Anyone know what the “WILGUS” reference means?

Dragons are above such pedestrian endeavors. Roasting marshmallows, on the other hand….

You also have to be careful about ticking people off. You never know when someone has a +5 seltzer bottle of dragon fire extinguishing.

My eldest, Alex, had an imaginary friend named Dunkin, from the age of about 2 1/2 (before his brother was born) to first grade or so, that was a dragon. That dragon was a part of the family. Alex is now a field biologist saving endangered fish and working with other species for the US Fish and Wildlife in Washington State. Dragons>>Fish???

When you have a flying dragon, why bother with roads?

Peuffe the Magic Dragon (with apologies to today’s Fusco Brothers).

The Soviets experimented with putting a jet engine in front of a locomotive, aiming the exhaust forward. Do not know how that turned out.

Fans of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (the books, not the TV show) will notice that the map in front shows main roads criss-crossing Essos. They run ruler-straight for thousands of miles, presumably over mountains, across rivers, etc., something no road on Earth could manage even using modern heavy machinery. I figured the ancients must’ve laser-beamed them from orbit, but maybe dragons figured in somehow. (Secret hypothesis: The planet is really Pern in a different era.)

That would be more fun than driving a plow truck for sure.

The use of fire throwing dragons to clear the roads will keep taxpayers from flipping the tab..

I have often thought about getting a torch for my propane tank. Would make short work of the snow on my porch. Melts, and evaporates, too!

In the mid-60s a Nebraska farmer named Pullen jury-rigged a machine to remove ice from the road/runway by crushing it (which removes problems of refreezing). He demonstrated it at airports all over the world very successfully and the big ‘tractor/truck’ companies were interested but they wanted him to sell them the rights and he wanted a piece of the action. He went bankrupt and the world never got to see if his contraption would really work—another instance of greed over good (on both sides).