Yay, Salt

[jenett]

Application of salt got me enough traction to get moving. (Yay)

Am now going to go do errands, including acquiring more salt to de-ice the alleyway with. (Though I'm going to park on the street tonight, on principle.)

Comments

[syzygis]

Something else to try, which you may have in more quantities: cat litter. Doesn't remove the ice, but adds a ton of traction. If I weren't living in a place where all the snow melts by 8 am, I'd have a bag of the stuff in my trunk at all times.

[cjsherwood.livejournal.com]

Would also suggest, if you haven't already thought of it, numerous bags of kitty litter. They provide ballast in the trunk and also help immensely with gaining traction on ice. Pour liberally around tires that are stuck and a little ahead and behind.

If you're parking on the street, do make sure no more snow is expected? Last thing you want to have to do is dig out a car that's been buried by snow plows!

[jenett]

No snow for a few more days - I'll pull into the driveway again tomorrow night, probably, after the salt's had a chance to do some work, just don't want to risk getting stuck going to doctors appts tomorrow.

(We had snow, then freeing rain and rain, and then more snow, so the alley is pretty much sheet ice under the top layer of snow.)

Need to acquire clay kitty litter, too.

[cjsherwood.livejournal.com]

You may wish -- if you're physically up to it, to scrape up whatever ice the salt has softened and get it off to the sides so the next time it snows it's not piling up on partially melted ice... just a thought, and heaven knows you're used to living in the midwest!

[brooksmoses]

Yay, indeed! Glad you got unstuck.