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glacialerratical t1_ja8720d wrote

The salt helps keep your nice, freshly-shoveled driveway from icing over once the snow has stopped, and helps the remainders melt more quickly in the sun. But it's not going to melt 6 inches of snow. Plus you don't want to dump it all in your yard if you can help it.

The plow trucks use it, but they're also using sand and plowing.

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alyinct t1_ja86zmt wrote

Thanks for the heads-up!

Just a reminder to please be kind to your neighbors — especially letter carriers, delivery drivers and healthcare workers, grocery workers, etc. We are still going to and from work in this and may be parking farther from home tonight and tomorrow morning due to parking bans. Please don’t shout at us for taking “your” on-street parking spots (this has happened to me before), and please clear your sidewalks — it’s the law, but it also helps keep us “essential workers” from busting ass on ice.

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traddad t1_ja85yv0 wrote

This happened to me the last time when I switched from Eversource. However, a few weeks after I got the verification email, I got another email that said:

"We have received an enrollment rejection from your local utility, Eversource, for ANE- Account Not Eligible. This means that a block has been placed on your account that prevents it from switching to a supplier."

As I wrote in my other post, Eversource may have your account listed as "Financial Hardship" even if you did not ask for it. They automatically did that to a lot of people. If so, you cannot change suppliers until you ask Eversource (in writing!!!) to remove the "Financial Hardship" from your account. They have a pdf form for you to do that.

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b33r_engineer t1_ja85xzd wrote

I’m just waiting for the inevitable 3/4” of snow before it all changes to rain…again.

Snowblower is ready, though, just in case. My kid really wants to build a fuckin’ snowman this year, let’s make it happen.

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alyinct t1_ja85o5v wrote

Don’t make the mistake I made with my sidewalk in my first year as a homeowner — if you salt first, the bottom layer will thaw into a slushy mess while the snow is still falling, but then it will turn into ice, making it harder to remove even if the rest of the snow layer on top is fluffy. You want to use salt to break the crust on top of the snow to make removal easier, not create a bottom crust.

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fprintf t1_ja857hm wrote

Hopefully you have fresh gas and put gasoline stabilizer in the fuel. Otherwise you might be spending some time getting her started. Blame the awful 10% ethanol fuel for any starting issues for snowblowers, worst thing for small engines ever.

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