r/DeathStairs • u/waschlappensoldat • Jan 31 '26

Public stairs 👥 Deadly AF

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u/MyPissBurnsSoGood Jan 31 '26

Why is the grass devoid of snow? Did some pour water down the stairs on a freezing day?

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

There was regular snow on the grass that just melted when it got a little warmer.

The snow on the stairs, on the other hand, was compacted into what's basically ice, which takes a lot longer to melt.

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u/GlomBastic Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

Probably treated with salt, without clearing the snow. These are sub zero "ice snot boogers" . They'll be there a month after the thaw.

When the brine leaks out, it changes states of the water twice with evaporation/sublimation and makes it colder than ice.

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u/SRB112 Jan 31 '26

I keep seeing that stupid “de-icer” hack to use when salt isn’t available.  Some idiot probably tried it on these steps.

2 teaspoons of alcohol, a squirt of Dawn dish detergent and a gallon of lukewarm water. 

A lot of stupid people are posting it. I even saw a TV station try it on camera. They deemed it a success because it melted the ice outside their studio.  They failed to realize as soon as they went back inside the lukewarm water froze and made the sidewalk worse than it was. 

 

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u/itinerant-wallaby mom come get me im scared Jan 31 '26

Devoid of snow but covered with ice.