My front door is behind that 6-foot-high pile of snow. Read all about Winter Storm Gail, the tramp, that created this nightmare
task.
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But as Frank Carmichael, the owner of WLIP.com says, "The devil is in the details." I'm a guest every month on Frank's Happenings radio show. His wife Kim and their top assistant Reanna join us on the show. But I
digress.
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Within minutes, I found out why this magic concrete is still one step away. Here are the issues:
- it only works for snowfalls 2 inches or less in depth
- you need special porous aggregate (stones) to make it work
- the exothermic chemical reaction that melts the snow only works for ten
hours
- the concrete must be allowed to warm up after the snow falls/melts to reverse the chemical reaction allowing it to be ready to melt the next small snowfall
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Do you see the issues here? How many places do you know of that only get 2 inches of
snow or less and then it warms up to 45 F, or more, in the next few days?
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Wouldn't the snow just melt on its own in those weather conditions?
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Why of course it would.Â
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BEWARE of writers who use clickbait
headlines. Granted, this writer or editor did state that they had one more step to take.
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I think you'll agree he left out just one word in the headline.
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One GIANT leap!
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