Once you get the snow off your sidewalk you can put salt down to avoid snow/ice buildup.

Would never EVER recommend salt as it is corrosive and will ruin your concrete. Shovel/snowblow asap after a storm. You can even snowblow several times throughout a storm. Stay ahead of it. Don’t walk on or drive over snow if you can help it. Clear it first. If you do have ice build up, throw down salt for traction so you don’t slip or get sued.

I fell three times today, while wearing spikes, because people didn’t put down salt. My knee has ripped skin, got a bruise on my side, and an egg lump on my head.

PLEASE USE SALT

Calcium chloride is your friend

Get an ice scraper for your driveway if you can. Go chip it all up and prevent it from building up

This is the kind of weather where sand works so much better. The salt will melt the snow and that water will freeze and the cycle repeats. Sand will provide increased traction and won't dissolve.

You have salt?!?!?!

It'll either suck a normal amount more than once or suck a whole lot all at once, but the total suckage will be the same regardless.

I'm in the "wait and hit it all at once" camp, but that's because my electric snowblower has enough torque to rip up the ice dam that the plows leave at the bottom of my driveway. I don't really need to worry about a layer of ice sandwiched between heavy snow, that machine will chew through it anyways.

Wait for sun …. Cold water and more snow wind etc would make the need to salt so much it would be obsurd

I mean technically if the water isn’t running off into drains or infiltrating into the soil, a salty aqueous solution will lower the required freezing point by a few degrees which would make it harder for that water to freeze up. On one part of my street we tried this and had some good luck but if you have any elevation change on your sidewalk it won’t work out as well as it did for us. Granted it is a trade off because you’re trading the ice rink of a sidewalk into a slushy mess that soaks your feet. Best part is liquid salt won’t tear up my dog’s paws

Salt. Don’t know about down south but up north our home improvement (and grocery) stores will carry driveway salt or de-icer. Throw it around your driveway like you would spread grass seed. Usually done the morning of, or sometimes the bight before.

A lot of people here recommended salt. And they are correct, this is the best way. But use it sparingly, it can destroy your concrete.

Dude did this in Fargo. Got arrested. No sense of humor from the authorities.

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I live on a steep hill in a snowy climate. Buy salt and make sure your tires are in okay shape and you'll be fine.

Just use ice melt pellets, not salt. That’ll be clear in a few hours.

What's worked well for me in the past is my buddy used a pick ax like tool and struck sections of the ice until it was spider webbed decently and used ice pellets (not rock salt) and poured over the cracks and little impact holes. Allows it to seep in the layers of ice.

Lots of advice for removing the ice, but how about preventing it to begin with. All of it looks like ice formed from hardpack snow, either from driving up and down before it was plowed, or your plow not getting a good scrape (I have the same problem with mine), not from water run off. Once you get rid of this I'd suggest not driving on the snow before you get a chance to plow, and/or putting down salt right after you plow before it gets a chance to get that hard. If it is from run off, you have yourself a nice spring project of installing some sort of drainage to keep the water from going back on the driveway.

Get a propane tank and a torch blower and have fun. Or get a shit ton of sand/sm rock mix dumped and make yourself a high spot to navigate on and try force and melting snow water to looks like left side of your drive. Also if you do get stuck you will have a area to grip to hopefully. In the spring you can shovel it to side and redew it in fall

Sand. Next summer, place a barrel there. I've seen them laid horizontal, on a crossbuck sawhorse rack, elevated 4 feet off the ground. Think ski resort condos. They have these at the switchbacks. Anyway, the rack is so they don't freeze or get buried. Keep a long handled shovel there.

Get a steel, long handled ice scraper. Should be able to get one at your local big box home improvement store.

I’ve built those. Lots of work to use unless you’re looking at a very small driveway. They are even more work to fill.

Call your local plow guy with a sand spreader. Have him sand it for you. Should cost the same as one plowing.

I spent all day making sure the street drain in front of my house was unclogged whenever the plow went by... I now have the only non-icerink sidewalk and driveway in my neighborhood.

get a bag of sand and spread it around. Make the ice grippy instead of slick

The key is getting it today (now) before it freezes. You’re kinda SOL after that. 

It's a good question. I can tell you my snowblower sheared every auger pin it had trying.

Exactly. Won't melt anything but you'll no longer be worried about it

The most Maine answer possible

Yes, very. It’s ice

My back does not thank me for this approach.

Rock salt on asphalt but not on concrete. Salt ruins concrete. Use calcium chloride instead.

Wait until it warms up.

Salt it first. Give it some time to penetrate and work. Use a mutt (tool) to break it up if it is thick. Then shovel.

Very carefully

Get a sturdy implement and try to jab the thin points in the ice to pop the vacuum seal against the surface and get them loose so you can take a nice sized shovel to them. If the implement is a digging shovel, jab and twist.

Sounds like you've never experienced winter before?

Rub my wet vagina all over the ice to freeze it shut in a sort of beautiful kind of pain

Probably throw down some salt.

I live in Canada. This is happening soon anyways

Same as I always do...go about my business. My driveway usually freezes for a bit every year, depending on how good I am at snow removal for the small 1 inch storms (I often don't snow blow those days).

It's generally not a big deal, even in a 2WD sedan in my 400ft long driveway (slight grade). You just drive carful and don't try and accelerate too fast or stop too fast.

Salt and get a ice chopper. You will need one eventually anyways and it's very satisfying breaking off big chunks.

May I suggest that you buy "pet safe" ice melt If you there's dogs in the neighborhood? There likely are

The next five days are all going to be excellent melting days, with 3 of the 5 getting significantly above freezing. Get some ice melt (you don't need a lot at all) to help things along today, but the warm weather will help a lot.

After you get a few spot of cement exposed just wait until it warms up and starts to loosen up. it will be much easier to clear since the darker cement will warm up better than the white, reflective snow. Salt, scrape, shovel, repeat.

Yes, you can use that stuff. Be warned, it’s heavy AF if you fill a 5 gallon bucket you might want help lifting it into the car

You can get some of the sand/salt mix that the city puts in barrels around the city

Just did and threw down a bunch of ice melt. This soupy wet slush is going to be very nasty if you let it freeze.

Shovel it or it will be an ice ring in the morning.

Shovel when snow is done then put down salt/ice melt to prevent ice later.

Here in Wheaton it's already stopped snowing

Let it pass first. Should be done by 7pm