SteveBrickNJ
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Correct. I wish I had a heated driveway. The snow would melt as the flakes made contact.
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Roads in northern states should be heated. Change my mind.
It is called a radiant heating system or heated driveway. Installed it is around $12 per square foot. One turns on a switch inside their home and the system melts the snow/ice off of the driveway. Or a cheaper option is heated driveway mats , Heattrak.com
Goofyernmost
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You'd have to take a second job just to pay for the electricity bill to make that work. Might be cheaper to just hire someone to shovel it out.
SteveBrickNJ
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I looked into 800 sq ft driveway , $8.5K to install heated driveway system , 29.6kw per hour to operate driveway to melt snow and ice or approx $3.55 per hour. On the flip side one runs the risk of heart issues, illness, slip trips and falls dealing with snow/ice, sub freezing temps conditions in driveway. An expense to install but the risk of medical bills could be much more than $8.5K. A family going to WDW for a week in high season can easily spend more money in a week. A system could be an investment is selling your house also. If I lived again in cold freezing climates I would look into.
MinnieM123
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Some valid points there. Just as a side note -- I only lived in one place that had an electric driveway. It was an apartment building that had a parking lot in the back, but it was down a very steep incline. So that's why the building owner decided to put it in.
Other than that one example above, I've never known one person who had a heated driveway. Everyone just shovels out (or hires someone to shovel, or a plow driver). It's just the way it is up here. If it gets really icy (which does not happen in every storm), people use ice melt.
Good points. I would be also worried on ice conditions. A number of times I fell flat on my face when I was very young slipping on ice trying to go to the edge of the driveway to pick up the morning newspaper.
MinnieM123
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Yah, it just comes with the territory. You just try to be as careful as you can. A lot of this I just don't even think about -- it's just so routine in the winter. I'm always careful and keep an eye out for black ice, especially. But there's only so much you can do. Most of the time, it's o.k.
Goofyernmost
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It's much cheaper to just move south. That's what I did.
One thing I learned when I use to live in Western NC, the city where I lived shut down when 3 inches of snow fell in the ground.
Goofyernmost
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There isn't a place in NC that doesn't shut down for that, in fact in the Raleigh area a half inch will do it.
Its incredible the research triangle of Raleigh Durham with all that technology and money can't even get together a plan to prepare the roads before a snowfall. Perhaps the techie brains of the research triangle should take a lesson from NJ for example to see how it is done.
Goofyernmost
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The problem with that is that they don't know how to deal with snow. That foolishness of putting down brine on the highways is epic. They put it on the roads the day before the storm. The problem with that is that it doesn't amount to a snowball in hell. Usually here it will rain before it snows and that washes the brine off the roads. If not that the brine will dry on the surface and the wind blows the useful part of it off the road before the storm even arrives. The biggest problems are the bridges on the interstates. All they need is a small amount of sand salt mix on those to make them safe, instead they either divert traffic off the closest exit only to reenter on the other side of that bridge or the shut down the highway completely. The only time the highways can be maintained properly is during the storms, here they wait until it is all done before they even try. Of course, the fools that drive around here with bald tires on ice and snow do not make for a safe driving situation either.
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I saw some on IG. Beautiful pics. I recommend y’all having a look.Norway cruise photo thread.
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