Nick wrote: > I don't think it's anything like that simple. > > As an aside, walking a mile+ each way to and from work for the last week > and a half, the "cleared" areas in front of houses are far more slippery > - being covered with a thin layer of ice - than the areas that had been > left alone and had nice crunchy snow on them.
If it remains nice crunchy snow then you are perfectly correct. Unfortunately our road is a main thoroughfare to the canal towpath and to further housing down the slope so the snow gets compacted and polished which is as bad as ice, especially if thaws just a little during the day before re-freezing. If you can clear it before the stuff gets polished then you have an improvement, with the exception of last Weds when the black ice arrived on any surface and caused chaos up here. Roger
