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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok good to know, I felt like an idiot when I got up this morning, and it looked like I had never shoveled and all my neighbors’ walks were cleared already. I salted early because I was afraid that there would be too much accumulation and it would freeze to the ground, and I wouldn’t be able to shovel it at all. I’m a hospital worker and so my shifts are 12 hours: I was worried about what I would come home and find. But duly noted. Pretty sure there’s nowhere to get ice melt now so I’m totally out and crossing fingers since it will be cold this week.[/quote]

Midwesterner here, from a state that regularly gets ice and sleet storms.

What you should have done was shoveled 2x yesterday (snow round plus during the sleet) then as you were shoving the sleet sprinkle salt on each section as you went along.

The hard icy frozen sleet layer would still have happened, but below it would have been slush still.  Everything would have come right up with minimal effort.

I was able to test this because I only had a bit of leftover salt, so I used it sparingly and only salted my porch, sidewalk and around 1 foot of the driveway.

That part came up in around 10 minutes of no effort shoveling.  The rest of the driveway and sidewalks took 3 of us 3 hours, with lots of whacking it with shovels to break the ice

This area usually doesn't get this kind of weather, especially not accumulating ice or sleet, so just tuck the advice away in your mind and pull it out in 7 years, the next time we have an event like this.  When we get frozen precipitation,  it is usually just a few inches of only snow, or every few years a big blizzard, again just snow, no ice.[/quote]

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