Re:75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
by dgzl on Monday January 28, 2019 @04:36PM
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Central Illinois was my first time experiencing freezing rain. Leaving work, everyone had to spend 30+ minutes chiseling an inch of ice off their windshield with their car blasting heat, while being rained on and whipped with strong wind.
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Re:75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
by hermitdev on Monday January 28, 2019 @04:45PM
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It's not too bad if you're patient and plan ahead: raise the wipers so they're not frozen to the windshield and let the car warm up. After about 5-10 minutes of warming, the ice on a windshield comes off very easy. Granted, the last storm wasn't an inch of ice, it was about a 1/4" of ice, some snow, then about another 1/4" of ice. Took me longer to shovel around the car than it did to clean the car itself off.
Re:75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
by ocdtrekkie on Monday January 28, 2019 @04:43PM
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That sheet of ice over your whole car isn't too bad if you can figure out the right amount of force to crack the ice without also cracking your windshield. :D
One day last week I spent my time after work removing it off my car, then driving to where my friend works, and removing it off her car too.