[OT] Cold !!!

[John Voigt]

On Wednesday, February 02, 2011, Tony Alfrey spake unto the assembled:

> John C. Voigt wrote:
> > Normally I just fire up the tractor and plow everything out, but ya
> > can't plow ice. My back deck, road and driveway are basically a big
> > ice chunk now. I'll have to wait until it thaws out I guess.
> 
> Doesn't salt work, or is it too cold for even that?

Yeah, salt works - to a point, but still not much help to clear bare ice. I 
have in excess of 2300 feet of "driveway" to keep "passable", and I can't 
afford that much salt/chloride. So far we can still skate out to the road 
(which isn't salted either).

As one of our former mayors once said, "if God put it there, He'll take it 
away". I'll have to live with that ;-) Unfortunately, this was also the guy 
who sold off a good deal of our snow removal trucks and equipment to save 
money to spend on other supposedly "worthy projects".

JV
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