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An air streamer on the outside wall directed at the welcome-mat. When snow accumulates (eg: when the colour of the mat changes to white), it activates long enough to blow the area clean. Unlike a doorway canopy it also removes drifted snow.
Perhaps a kit for an electric leafblower.
(We only got
maybe half a foot yesterday but, thanks to some karma I'm not aware of, most of the neighbourhood's snowfall drifted into my driveway, averaging a metre deep. I had to partially dismantle the door and dig out of the 4 foot drift piled up against it, with a roasting pan.)
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Might I suggest changing your door to be an in-swing
door so you don't have to disassemble it to get out
in the future? But the door blower is a good idea
too. |
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Greetings from Florida. Hope you get out but we're full. |
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// dig out … with a roasting pan // |
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That bespeaks a lack of preparedness, for which you deserve to
suffer, door blower or no. |
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[scad] The doorframe has a regular inner door which opens inwards, also an outer "storm door", of flimsy aluminium, which purpose is to come unlatched and flap around wildly in high winds. |
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[8/7] Usually that side of the building is in the lee of the wind. I've the inset door-window slightly open to let cats(/raccoons) in and out; it was just a matter of removing it completely. |
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Anyways, I've seen pics of hilarity ensuing when your locale gets a light dusting. |
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I'm thinking that an electrically-heated doormat
would be simpler. |
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Why not just push the button which opens the trap door
under the welcome mat? Let the snow melt at its leisure.
Seems a pretty obvious solution to me. |
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Would be handy for the windier parts of the uk,
the
blower could counter-act the wind blowing the
door
open as you struggle to close it with shopping bags
in
each hand. |
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With a good motion detector it could deter home
invasions, tax men and so on. With a doppler
radar, a swivel and a long spring it could also be
instantaneously be deployed at the foot of the
stairs to cushion the drop of anyone falling down
the stairs. |
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//Usually that side of the building is in the lee of the wind.// |
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Can't you just turn the building then ? Sheesh, it's like you're
deliberately making difficulties ... |
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// to let cats(/raccoons) in // |
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We hope you freeze and/or starve to death, along with your
despicable felines. |
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//simpler// Why would I want that? |
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"You look like you've blown a doorseal! |
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"Bullshit, it's just snow!" |
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What's needed here is a wind-powered snow-blower. If there's enough wind to pile up drifts against your door, there's enough wind to power, through a system of gears and belts, a small fan to blow snow away from the area right next to your door. |
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Clever, [hip], you should post that. |
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Solution: 1. Work in the same building as a large
metropolitan hospital where dedicated employees clear the
snow with a vigor only overtime pay can provide.
2. Don't leave. |
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Metal grate door mat over an opening, nothing collects. Don't drop your keys. |
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I wonder if a rejiggering of exterior architecture could prevent this in the future. This is sort of like strategic placement of jetties and such to prevent beaches from washing away or to encourage deposition of sand from the washed away beach of the neighboring city. |
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I think in some places ad hoc fencing is used for this purpose, to slow the wind and produce snow deposits out on the lawn and away from traveled areas. Maybe a bench, hedge or line of cement garden sculpture could do that for you, FT? |
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Snow fences help but they're not a complete cure. Perhaps if
architecture over a wide area is designed for it. |
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Well, the wall the door is on is usually downwind, so there's often a convenient pocket in any drift where the door is. But the other day, when most of the neighbourhood had maybe half a foot of snow, our driveway was up around 3 feet. We're at a "T" intersection; speculation is that the wind was at the exact angle of the facing street, clearing it at our expense. Or some bugger with a snowblower and time on their hands in the middle of the night decided to have some fun. |
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//despicable felines// Have you priced trained minions recently ? |
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Yes, and they're a bloody fortune - downright criminal, it is, the
money some of them want for perfectly simple henching jobs … |
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Sometimes being The Embodiment Of Total Evil is hard work,
particularly when there's so much competition around. |
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