"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Thursday, 19 January 2017 14:25:36 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 18 January 2017 17:15:18 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
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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

Yes, but none of those taps are threaded to
take a hose

The hose can go on the outside of the tap idiot.
Same way you can get hoses that go over bathroom
taps so you can have a shower.

AND THE ****ING HOSE IS STILL INSIDE THE ****ING HOUSE, ****WIT.

and even if they were, that hose would be inside the ****ing house,
****wit.

So.
All you need is the inteligence to put the hose pipe through a window
door or even cat flap. I;ve managed that living on the foirst floor the
hose goes out the kitchen window to the garden it's not rocket science.

In the depths of winter after a snow storm or blizzard has
just dumped inches or feet of snow on your drive way.

Yep, you are likely to actually be that ****ing stupid.

Anyone with even half a ****ing clue would use a snow
blower instead of farting around with hot water like that.