Dealing with Ice and Snow

Today was only the second time in my entire life that I had to put down some type of material to prevent and melt any ice or snow that had accumulated during the night. Before the snow came to town last night we received some freezing rain. The combination of the two caused the main entrance to the Club, walkways and stairs to become dangerous. The first time I prepped for weather like this we used sand to help melt the ice and snow. I was not a big fan of this process because we first had to shovel the sand where it was needed and then after everything had melted and became very messy we had to pick it all back up again. This time I used Calcium Chloride and it worked out great. I used a rotary spreader like we would use to fertilize the grass with and applied it to the areas that I felt would receive the most traffic. I'm glad this only happens every now and again because 4:30 was a pretty early start time.