HotRodZilla wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 12:04 am
Spklbuk, I have a dumb question:
It doesn't look like you have much snow. You have a smooth set of tire tracks running down that road, so if you're not having any problems, why bother going out with the snowblower? You said it's gonna melt before it snows again, so it doesn't seem like it will be so much that you can't just drive over it. Are yo6 just trying to stay ahead of it?
We get snow like that but don't usually worry about it unless it gets deep enough to be a problem or it continues to stack up and will become a problem. It almost looks like you could have been on your porch enjoying a cold and frosty one and not stressing that little bit of snow. That's the only reason I ask.
Partial melting then refreeze to solid ice sheet makes working woman Spkldoe very unhappy. Running over it only makes for better ice.
And if the shack were to burn b/c the fire truck couldn't get across the ice, State Farm would be unhappy. And there is EMS access... I'm old.
Getting some of the gravel exposed will let in enough sun on a 40* day (like Sat forecast) to melt off the track. There will still be ice at the mouth of the shady driveway.
Just ask the deer how much fun the crusty snow is. We used to get a deepening snow pack from Christmas to April and then Spring would pop.
Now, those fluckers in CA and the Dakotas (weatherman calls them our friends in Fargo) send us repeated storm fronts so we get a few days winter, spring thaw, then more winter. All leading to persistent crust and ice. It sucks.
The latest Pacific sky shit that is piling on deserving Dougie will be here Saturday night starting as snow, then sleet and rain, the back to snow thru Tues, making better crust. Thanks for sharing so freely Mr. Bugnatr.
