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Keith Williams
 
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Default Question: "This Old House" The Current Project
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Keith-

I agree witht the basics of your post as well as the conclusion (move &
store snow in frozen form but I have always thought 12" of snow
equaled 1" of water If so you cacls are somewhat off

IIRC 12:1 is a pretty dry number. 10:1 is dry snow. I believe 6:1
is closer to the average. Whatever, the numbers are on the weather
sites (snowfall vs. precipitation); scale accordingly.

Also the heated walks / drives I am familair with Mammoth Lakes, CA)
are turned on when the snow starts so you're not dealing all the snow
at once but as it comes down,
So the melted water flow away via "normal drainage"

But that "normal drainage" is off the path only to re-freeze
somewhere else. Some may go down the drain, some may just cause a
skating rink in the road (the towns around here will get mighty
****ed).

Bottom line is........... if melting snow was cost effective there
would be more snow melting insallations & few snow blowers throwers.
Last year we got 10ft in week, my fuel bill wsa high enough with a
drive melter.

I assume you mean w/o. ;-) 10'? Yikes! We had 5' in three
storms over 10 days (early December) last year. That was 'nuff.
Fortunately we didn't get much more until March.

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Keith
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