The five snowflakes that fell over the city yesterday quickly turned into a thin layer of ice. This is the second most unpleasant regular event in the city, only dwarfed by the annual snow melting. Unfortunately, when the snow is not much, people tend to not clean it.
And to celebrate the snow, here’s a song that doesn’t sound like metal but if you listen carefully, has harsh vocals. The artist is Lustre, and the track is The First Snow.
Embrace this innocent beginning
To a chapter of woe and wonder
A night all dressed in white
The first snow – a token of curiosity.
Veselin.blog 
Thin layers of ice are so dangerous!
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Oh, yes, hospitals get full of people with broken arms and legs.
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Pictures like this make me extremely grateful for the Gulf Stream for keeping the UK (comparatively) warm!
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in these cases, unless someone gets injured, nobody does anything…
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That’s close to what my driveway looked like a few days ago after winter rain followed by a cold-snap. I tossed some rock salt on it to melt it and give it some traction while it did so. Am I right in guessing that isn’t standard practice there?
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Standard practice is people from the nearby buildings need to shovel the snow, and the large sidewalks need to be cleaned by the municipality.
However, the municipality is stuck in a political war with an opposition party who control the majority of the cleaning companies, and they don’t do their job well to discredit the mayor. And the regular folks just ignore 3-4 cm of snow.
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Yeah, but when it turns to ice like that?
Sigh. Politics.
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It’s also about money, in this case. Who gets the cleaning contracts an can they get paid without actually cleaning
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Same situation here. We’re using sand for traction.
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Where’s that?
For reference, I live in Minnesota. It’s always interesting (really!) to compare how different places handle things like ice hazards. I thought everyone largely handled icy surfaces the same and I’m discovering they apparently don’t.🤣
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Rural New England. I grew up using salt in Utah, but apparently salt stops working at some point? Also sand is easier on the flora
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Well met! Thanks for the reply.
Yeah, regular road salt stops working at around +5°F. The guys handling that stuff around here have a couple of different mixtures they use to get around the toxicity and the temperature limitations. And that, I’m afraid, is where my knowledge stops.
Have a great day, Velda.
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We had lots of freezing rain, followed immediately by a lasting cold snap with several thin layers of snow. I can get the snow off, but the ice is properly stuck for now. 😫 Spiky boots til spring, then.
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It was snowy and icy in Germany, too. Yesterday, it all melted very suddenly, so everything is soggy and messy.
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The melt is a problem here because lots of people stop picking up the poop after their dogs in the snow. However all the ice just melted within 24h – we had 24h of warm rain.
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Eew… that is pretty gross! We had a few piles get buried under the snow that I cleaned up yesterday. It was pretty nasty.
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Yes, it is unpleasant. However, it seems like we won’t have any real snow this year, sno no real melting problem. Just some ice.
Climate change
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Well, I hope you won’t slip! That’s one thing I hate about the ice!
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Thanks!
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I’ve been working hard to try to keep my back porch from looking like this this year. It’s so dangerous. Be careful. I put up gutters to direct the water and I shovel immediately, and I’m thinking about a couple of heated pads between the back door and the doghouse.
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