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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been through 60 winters in northern states (Mich, Illinois, & Mass). This obsession you guys have with salt is baffling. You shovel the damn snow. That’s it.

Cities salt the roads, & stores salt the approaches to their doors. Everybody else just shovels, & the important thing is to have a good snow shovel. [/quote]

We got 2 inches of ice.
There was no shoveling til the ice could be broken up hence salt. Not a hard concept for people with brain cells.[/quote]

If you went out and cleared the snow while it was snowing it was much easier to clean the next day. I have one shovel with a sharper edge that breaks up the ice fairly easily. I didn't use salt or anything else. It also helped that my front yard gets lots of sun. My neighbors who have driveways with little sun suffer. [/quote]

I followed CWG’s shoveling advice to a tee. I have two inches of ice bonded to my brick paver driveway with drainage holes (that filled with ice and froze). Plus the same sheet bonded to the sidewalk and my flagstone walkway. I pickaxed for 40 min yesterday and still have at least 2 hours to go.[/quote]

Yeah this was a weird storm where it was much easier to shovel if you waited out the entire storm.

If you have an extra wide walkway, try doing half next time, then you can finish up with whichever side is easier.[/quote]

Or it would have also been easier if you shoveled throughout the day Sunday and also did a final pass after the storm on Sunday night and put ice melt. We did that and had a clean driveway on Monday. [/quote]

+1 exactly

Sunday night was the best time to shovel, and if you had been shoveling during the day too it was manageable [/quote]

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