We had a snowfall on Sunday. That day, I ran some errands, not using my car. There were patches of ice on sidewalks. Some of this ice was due to people putting chemical ice-melting products (such as salt) on the sidewalk.
Please don't put such products on snow. They melt the snow into water, then after the chemical has been diluted or used up, the water freezes into ice. Ice is more dangerous than snow.
Sure, such chemicals are good for loosening ice so you can shovel or chip it away. They're even good for loosening very hard-packed snow that you can subsequently shovel off of the sidewalk.
Such chemicals are very unsafe when people use them as a substitute for shoveling.
To summarize: if you're going to put salt or some other substance on sidewalks to melt snow or ice, you must shovel afterwards, or you risk creating even more ice.
Thank you.
This message is brought to you by the do-you-want-me-to-crack-my-skull-open-on-YOUR-sidewalk coalition of Edmonton
1 comment:
i like that coalition. i also founded the don't-tell-me-to-get-on-the-sidewalk-from-the-passenger-side-of-your-SUV coalition.
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