If it were regular snow I understand but this is a thick layer of ice that just has to melt.

Even though many can't see it right now, but inflation presents another opportunity of our lifetimes to gain equity and melt leverage! 

Sand is helpful when the ice is too thick to melt quickly or really cold temps slow the process.If you have a lot of properties you can buy a pallet of bags at US Salt, otherwise we would get them at local big box hardware.

To make equity useful, and real, it must be "melted down" to liquid form. 

I used spreadsheets showing the reduced interest every month from making payments to keep my self motivated and show the ice was melting. 

Can't wait to see how this helps with snow melting or blowing off the roof, compared to the narrower screw down valleys.Again which is better?

Short sales, the sub-prime melt down of 2007, 95% LTV loans to unqualified borrowers by Country-Wide Mortgage (Not the current B of A subsidiary), before that it was the Charles Keating / Lincoln Savings debacle that gave rise to the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), interest rates in the late 70's of 16%, but no loans because no equity and on and on. 

A bit of a melting pot.

I sure hope hyperinflation or any type of systemic country-wide financial melt down doesn't happen in my lifetime (or my childrens lifetime...)

We all know what happened during the 2008 melt down: liquidity became super tight, the big banks needed bailout money, and all that.