Adam Lea wrote:


I was in Norway last February and the one thing I noticed was that walking
on snow in subzero temperatures is very easy to do - it is not slippy. In
the UK, snow tends to fall when the temperature is near or slightly above
freezing so the snow immediatly starts thawiing into a slushy mess which
becomes like a skating rink, especially after the cars have compacted the
snow down hard.

And on the rare occasions we get snow in sub-zero temperatures the idiot
councils chuck salt on the paths to turn dry snow into a slushy, slippy
mess.

Last Saturday was a different situation, cold but no snow or ice, so a local
shopping centre was smothered with salt and looked as if there had been a
light snowfall. Even undercover walkways were plastered with the stuff. The
large grains were like small marbles to walk on and some areas were wet due
to the salt soaking up moisture from the air. Pleased some kids as they had
been sliding on the stuff.

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Graham P Davis
Bracknell, Berks., UK
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