--- In [email protected], "roger_millin" <roger.mil...@...> wrote: > > Nick wrote:
> > As an aside, walking a mile+ each way to and from work for the last week > > and a half, the "cleared" areas in front of houses are far more slippery - > > being covered with a thin layer of ice - than the areas that had been left > > alone and had nice crunchy snow on them. > > If it remains nice crunchy snow then you are perfectly correct. Unfortunately > our road is a main thoroughfare to the canal towpath and to further housing > down the slope so the snow gets compacted and polished which is as bad as > ice, especially if thaws just a little during the day before re-freezing. If > you can clear it before the stuff gets polished then you have an improvement, > with the exception of last Weds when the black ice arrived on any surface and > caused chaos up here. > Roger > Plus why bother spending hours shoveling away snow when it's going to melt next day? (Except it didn't this time...) Steve
