[OT] Cold !!!

[John Voigt]

On Thursday, February 03, 2011, Tony Alfrey spake unto the assembled:
> 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.

Nah, no biggie. It gives the wife a chance to get a new fridge ;-)

It's supposed to warm up this weekend, so that should melt some of the ice.

L8R,

JV
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