We have around 4 inches of snow/ice mix (it rotated between snow, hail and freezing rain) which is now frozen solid. We cleared off our driveway yesterday but I need to clear a 100 foot pathway to my back yard, for my dog. I do not have ice melt to sprinkle on it, and I cannot go out to get any.
Hot water was helping to melt the snow and ice enough so that I could shovel it, but it is taking a long time to do it this way. I need suggestions on what else would work to get through the snow. My only other ideas are adding some baking soda (since it is salty) to the hot water, or mixing table salt with it, but I dont know if that would be effective unless I used a lot.
It is extremely difficult to move because it is frozen solid, and it will not get above freezing for at least a week.
2007-02-15
03:07:48
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