Winter Walking and Cycling

[ijmorlan]

The rain that froze everything up a few days ago has really highlighted the problem houses for sidewalk clearing in my area. When this house doesn't clear properly, every single pedestrian entering the neighbourhood has to walk in the street.

This week’s weather is likely to lead to trouble. It will be near 0 the whole time, but not consistently either above or below 0, so snow will melt and then freeze into solid ice. Right now my sidewalk is entirely clear because I shovelled it again while it was above 0 after clearing the bulk of the snow off earlier; then it melted down to nothing. I’m keeping a close eye on the forecast to decide when to clear — no point in clearing 2cm off if it’s cold and more is about to fall; but definitely worthwhile clearing if the alternative is for that 2cm to melt and re-freeze into an ice sheet.