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[revchris]

teeka and I chipped the ice off of the sidewalks and the driveway this weekend and I got the ice cleared out of most of the gutters. The end of the driveway has a bit of a bump to is, as I didn't feel like chopping the 2-3" of ice off the road. I just threw on a bunch of salt, and I'm going to think happy thoughts about it melting.

Mike (the next door neighbor) asked me today (while he was chopping ice) if I put salt on my roof. I told him I had, as a little salt should do less damage than an ice dam. He said he had been wondering why my roof is clear of ice along the edges when everyone else's in the neighborhood isn't.

I told him that wasn't the salt, that was the fact that I shoveled all the snow off the edge 3-4' of roof on Wednesday so that the last few warm days would have a chance to melt the rest of the edges clean.

Hopefully, the clean edges plus the empty gutters will mean that all the new precipitation this weekend won't freeze up completely on my roof. It also means that Tuesday I should rake off the roof again so that if can melt more.

This whole snow shoveling thing is starting to get old.