Icy pavements
Now that winter is just about here, the frosty and icy mornings are here, when i walk to the train station there is an incredibly steep hill i have to walk down to get there and it is very rarely gritted, i nearly slipped this morning walking down it. Is there anything i can buy to put on my shoes to stop me slipping? Or can i buy shoes that protect you from slipping on ice?
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wonderful , getting up to go to work and having to scrape ice off the windscreen. (as I did today and prolly for another while) .. but made sure I found last years can of de-icer
to grit or not to grit.. thanks to liability some places won't ,crazy...
if you grit , someone falls.. your fault..
only thing is with a new car and grit.. it gets covered in crud real quick in the winter. I just got back in from washing my car as it had bird crud on it and thats not so nice for the new paintwork.
zx just make sure you walk near a wall so you can grab onto that if you could.. you can get like gripper things to attach to trainers or whatever, I saw em last year.. forget their names
http://www.icegrips.co.uk/icegrips3.html
I searched for "ice grippers shoes" on google amazon had a load
They make those slip-on cramp-ons for shoes ... I'm not talking about the glacier-climbing ones but the ones regular people use ... they're also called cramp-ons, right? (or maybe something similar)
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Ah, fog's got it!
The added bonus is they are also fantastically warm in winter and cool in summer.
And you know you're getting old when you actually know the answer to such questions.
BTW Shoes with hard rubber soles are slipperier on ice.
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I clear my house and a few houses either side nowadays.
If a pavements really bad i just walk in the road and through the slush.
I tried that but they were just the same, also its not a good idea to walk on the roads unless you want knocked down!:smile:
if people can't drive into work cos of the ice, then it should be the same if you are unable to walk.
Like i say you must have done alright last year, lots of snow/ice last year and you survived ! Another tip is to eat lots, then that way when you fall over you should have a fair bit of padding if you land on your bum or on your stomach. If you do have a huge stomach you could actually bounce straight back up ;)
More top tips next week ;)
But a thread on icy pavements, its like we're all coffin dodgers ! There'll be threads next on what coupons to use in Tescos, surviving the winter and how to get free heating winter allowance etc ;)
I find that if the pavement has a little drainage gutter going along it to walk on that, for some reason they rarely freeze over?
Funny when the.........
.....Hang on no stop! :lol:
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Seriously though, I can understand when you actually get properly injured doing something that you can be wary about it. I've found doing the following helps me:
- pushing my weight forward slightly but still try to keep a steady centre of gravity; normally I find that my natural tendency is to lean back a bit wile walking when it's slippy
- walk a bit slower than normal and almost 'expect' to slip so that when you do you don't fall over
- walk on snow/slush wherever possible (it's harder to slip in a 1ft snowdrift)
I'm sure i didnt slip over that much when i was younger !
Hmm, that gives me a good excuse to have fry ups every day of the week!
hehe , if only.. I remember falling over last march ? or whenever it was there was bad snow.
the extra padding did help I guess hehe
just taken the pooch for a walk over the fields from our house towards the sea.
if you look closely you can see the sea on a couple of those pics
No snow up here yet.
Might go build a snowman if it's still snowing tomorrow... :)
I always thought Berwick was in England not Scotland?
Berwick is always being argued about as to whether it truly belongs in Scotland or England, but it is widely regarded as the Northernmost town in England....
But I don't stay in Berwick, I stay in North Berwick, which is a sleepy wee seaside town 25 miles along the coast from Edinburgh in East Lothian...
My parents stay in a tiny village called Humbie, 15 miles SE of Edinburgh, right on the edge of East lothian and only a couple of miles from Midlothian, and the Scottish Borders. And that's where I am now!! :)
It's on quite high ground and therefore any time there's snow, it usually gets rather a lot....not been too bad so far, but it's looking like we might get a lot more snow soon! Here's the view from the living room window...
Looks lovely! I woke up to a smiliar scene in Airdrie, i'm hoping for more snow today/tommorow so i might get a day off work!