On Wednesday, 18 January 2017 17:15:18 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 16:54:47 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
whisky-dave wrote
James Wilkinson Sword wrote
whisky-dave wrote

But you spend an hour slipping and sliding in it while you're
digging!

I wouldn't.

Then you also wouldn't while just walking across it. In fact it's
easier
to walk through snow than across cleared snow which can be icy.

Then it hasn't been cleared properly has it.

Not possible to clear a drive way 'properly' in that sense.

Yes it is.

It clearly isnt if you have JUST removed the snow and left it still icy.

Then you haven't done it properly.
Any fool can throw how water over snow and claim now it's melted it's no
longer snow so you've cleared the drive.
I would assume your driveway is currently free of ice and snow so how did
that happen ? magic.



The snow can be blown to another location or shoveled that would be OK,

Not if its still got ice once the snow has been removed.

but the snow has gone so for some that means the driveway danger is gone.
Same as those driving on roads might think oh look all the snow is pilled
up on the side of teh road so the road is safe as it is in summer.
And this is why the black ice warnings start.


you could use hot water and that would work OK provided the temerature
wasn't zero C or below the water should drain away before it freezes
again.

And when it is below zero C it would be MUCH worse than not doing that.

Thats when you can add salt which is why gritting lorries in the UK put
salt down when the temp is likely to drop below 1C.
Salted grit will still, freeze below -8 so there's little point but most
of england rarely gets that low for very long.
If you have temps of -20 there;s no point in usign salt.




Any fool can clear snow away by throwing warm water on it.

You can't clear an entire driveway that way.

yes you can.

Corse you can't, you'd need too many jugs of hot water, ****wit.

Don't use jugs ****wit, stick the garden hose on the hot tap instead of
the cold tap it ain't rocket science.

**** all have any hot water tap threaded to take a hose outside the house,
****wit.

but you do have hot water inside yuor hose don;t you the same place you fill yuor jug from. Why must you tape be threaded most of the hoses I've seen and used don;t have threads and teh tapes in the house haven't either.



All your even sillier **** ignored.