[Novalug] OT : Snow in Babylon (was New cars?)

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Mon Dec 29 20:31:50 EST 2008


On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:

Granular urea ( a fertilizer) makes a good snow melt that does not 
rust cars or harm plants. And it is quite cheap. You can get it at farm 
and garden supply stores.


There are other non-sodium chloride  ice melts available and the ones I 
have used seem to be more effective per pound than sodium chloride.

Also ashes spread on ice will help melt it - both the black color 
absorbing heat from the sun and the salts in the ashes.

Somewhere  have a picture taken up here in March of 2003 where we had so 
much snow that the cars became invisble lumps with projecting rear view 
mirrors. We had to hire someone with a back hoe to dig the driveway 
out.

Mostly we get ice and very little snow.

This is MD around 50 miles N of DC.

In California (my birth state) they maintain special reservations for 
the snow - these are referred to as "The Mountains" and when you 
want to see snow you can either look up at it from the warm 
lowlands or you can drive up there.

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