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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / February 2008Oy, WINTER!
Yesterday began with freezing rain. we had to cancel services at both churchse as it was just too dangerous to go out. Then it warmed up above freezing and continued to rain. A cold front followed this warm front overnight and we have ice everywhere this morning. Our garage door was frozen to the driveway and the ice was about a half inch deep once I got it open. I've been salting slowly, working my way out as traction improves. i think it will take the whole 50 lb. Mike just got to make the drive reasonably safe. Mike says, "it'll melt eventually", but I'm not waiting the week or two that'll be. We're accustomed to the ice patch near the street, this solid sheet of ice the length of the drive is unacceptable. Toto, we're not in Florida any more!  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare Yesterday began with freezing rain. we had to cancel services at both churchse as it was just too dangerous to go out. Then it warmed up above freezing and continued to rain. A cold front followed this warm front overnight and we have ice everywhere this morning. Our garage door was frozen to the driveway and the ice was about a half inch deep once I got it open. I've been salting slowly, working my way out as traction improves. i think it will take the whole 50 lb. Mike just got to make the drive reasonably safe. Mike says, "it'll melt eventually", but I'm not waiting the week or two that'll be. We're accustomed to the ice patch near the street, this solid sheet of ice the length of the drive is unacceptable. Toto, we're not in Florida any more! SignatureNann ahhh yes, the days of rime and cold noses. you poor thing. ((((((((((nann))))))) i remember we used to use bags of potassium cloride back east. that is generally used in water softeners. it's a form of salt, but finer and it worked better than rock salt. however, below a certain temperature, nothing works well, except for heated driveways. sounds like heat tape, a flat and flexible. fairly inexpensive electrical cord thing you can buy at a hardware store (also good around exposed plumming in attics or garages or in crawlspaces, to prevent frozen pipes) might be an option for the base of your garage door at times like this. i'd put it on the inside/dry side of the garage along the garage doorway threshold. just be sure you have mike shovel off all the broken up, loose ice. loose ice is just as apt to cause a fall or sliding car and sometimes it is more likely to, cuz one takes it for granted. feeling for you. kate remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare heh, nowhere to plug in the heat tape here. They've never modernized the electricity in the garage and breezeway in the rectory and the single, non-grounded outlet is already stressed! Fixing tht is issue is on my list of recommended future repairs. As for the ice, Monday, afternoon I got out there and started shoveling up the sheets of ice once the salt had finally loosened them well. Did the more heavily salted, lighter iced 2/3 of the drive (which is longer than the usual in town drive). That stretch ranged from 1/2 inch to 1 1/2 inches thick. I was giving up on the remainder when Mike decided to take over. he did the lighter salted, more heavily iced section, including the part sometimes known as "Lake Bell" because of all the water that collects there. Parts of that were 3 inches thick. He was using the garden spade to break up the ice. We both really felt it last night! This morning i walked to the local pharmacy to pick up my psoriasis lotion. I really appreciated our cleared drive. Even the salted & sanded roads were slick, but you can actually walk rather than shuffling on our drive! I actually found one thing i appreciate about folks riding snowmobiles in town - they chew up the ice on the sidewalks so you have a bit more traction. Nothing like ice to make you appreciate snow - as I've been telling everyone today! LOL - in fact, I tried to buy Mike some Yaktrax at Dunham's today. they'd had such a run on them the past 2 days though they only had 3 left, all too small for him. SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare Any possibility you can get those snowmobiles to do a back and forth on your driveway? I remember when we lived in the ice/snow area of the country, the biggest b..........was to just finish shoveling off the driveway and have the snowplows come along and throw a big pile across the opening of the driveway! Screech! SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. > heh, nowhere to plug in the heat tape here. They've never modernized the > electricity in the garage and breezeway in the rectory and the single, [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > too > small for him. Hrumph, yet another winter storm warning! Rain, then 2-3" snow this evening followed by 6-9" snow tonight. bad,bad,bad. :-( garyz > Any possibility you can get those snowmobiles to do a back and forth on > your driveway? I remember when we lived in the ice/snow area of the > country, the biggest b..........was to just finish shoveling off the > driveway and have the snowplows come along and throw a big pile across the > opening of the driveway! Screech! |
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