Just 45 more days until the first day of spring! Isn’t that exciting? For me, it is. Even though we’ll see snow, ice and cold long after this symbolic day, the idea is enough to bring hope that there is light at the end of a very long, cold, and frosty tunnel.

This winter has been ideal in my books for one main reason -a lack of snow and extreme cold. When I visited the Maritimes over Christmas I think I saw more snow in two weeks than we’ve seen here in Peterborough all winter. No word of a lie.

The snow we have seen, what little of it there is left, always makes for a challenge for anyone who wants to get out and about -drivers and pedestrians.

When it comes to reducing the winter risk, the most common tool we reach for from our ice melting arsenal is salt, but should it always be the first? Something we don’t tend to think about is where the salt we apply goes after its job is done.

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From the Peterborough Examiner- February 3, 2010