[OT] Cold !!!

[Tony Alfrey]

John Voigt wrote:
> 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


Bummer.  Well, good luck with all of that.  At least you don't have to 
waste electricity on the refrigerator.



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Tony Alfrey
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