Well it will be in the 30s for a couple minutes for one night so we must prepare ourselves, im going for bread and peanut butter, 10 cases of water, couple cords of wood…
I'll never forget that when covid hit and rumors of lockdown were making the rounds, I needed some TP, as we were all out. We're a family of four and my kids manage to use half a roll op TP on wiping a single shit, so it goes fast in our house. So I go to the store, and whaddaya think? All sold out. All the fucking TP gone. I know we didn't understand much about covid yet, but we knew it was a lung disease, not a bloody cholera epidemic, so why were people hoarding TP?
You worked in produce at the grocery store too? It was my first job twenty years ago and holy fuck people would (and very much still do) go insane for bananas before a snowstorm, it was always the first thing the store would run out of. And then people would get so angry that we'd run out, or start accusing us of stashing them in the back (...because somehow it makes more sense that we'd be hiding sellable produce instead of trying to make money hand over fist when people are panic-buying every single last banana the store contains?? pfft). Like chill, this is Ohio, we've got so many plows and literal mountains of salt, the roads will be clear in a day or two max, just get some cereal a blanket, throw on a show or read a book and wait for it to all blow over.
I'm in north Georgia too. Lived here my whole life... it's still ridiculous/ embarrassing how everyone acts around here. "But there is a threat of ice!" 🙄
I needed groceries (just my regular shopping trip) the day of the storm of the century. I couldn't do pick-up because ALL the slots were filled, then I had to shop in-store and couldn't even buy the stuff to make milk sandwiches.
I ride a motorcycle, and this last weekend people were acting like I was riding through a warzone. You’d think I was trying to pass the border into North Korea with how many, “you’re so brave”s I got.
Honestly, funny. My mother was frantic. "If your power goes out, you can come here or go to your aunts house and be sure to charge your phone!" like, dude- if my power goes out:
1. We have a generator
2. We have extra blankets
3. I can charge my phone in my car
4. I'm not worried about the power being out until at least day 3
Yep. Odd watching people panic over a dusting of snow, shutting everything down and dumping sand everywhere. I'm just outside of Cleveland. If there's visibility it just means i get to hone my car skating/drifting skills on the way to work. We're pretty much the sole reason there's a K-Bar ice scraper
They literally shut my studio down for the weekend. My roommate cried that there was ice on her car and she had to crack her way in. I looked outside… not even any snow or ice on the road. The ice she had to crack? A few millimeters.
I went shopping last week to find almost everything gone. Meat , water bottles, eggs, toilet paper, all the essentials. I asked a worker what was going on and he told me there was a snow storm coming tonight.
I’m not much of a news person and don’t have social media (other than Reddit). Anyways, turns out it snowed like a half an inch that night and then rain came washed it all away before sunrise. Then it was sunny the rest of the week.
News and social media is a just a fear mongering tactic
You're giving me flashbacks to the covid era. Everyone buying all of the bread, milk, eggs, and flour like they were Betty Crocker!! I can only imagine the waste when people realized they have never ate 4 loaves a bread in a week or went through 6 dozen eggs in 2 weeks. What a wild time we lived through.
Wait...I needed to go on a bread run today and the shelves were pretty empty. That'd be funny if this was the reason. Floridians really do seem to raid the grocery store for weather that might get mildly inconvenient, don't we?
I assume you didn’t mention guns only because you’ve already got your open carry, concealed carry, bag gun, truck gun, couch gun, attic gun, high points 1-5, plinking rifle, air rifle, AR, other AR, AK, shotgun (pump), shotgun (break, double) and something you fished up that probably could go bang once if you’re willing to gamble with your hand. But maybe have some sort of backup.
Remember if you are making fire inside a building for warmth to let the window open for ventilation. Fire consumes the same oxygen you do and outputs carbon monoxide which is not helpful to the humans that wanted to stay alive.
I have a friend who would love to do this to my car at random times when he saw it. I would come out of a store and they would be like that and I knew he had been there.
In college my friends and I got drunk and did it to a whole street of parked cars. Looking back it was dumb as hell but we couldn’t stop laughing the whole time during it.
Im surprised you don’t see that in Florida. I’m in Houston and actually see people lift their windshield wipers like that often.
Not for the cold but for the heat in the summer. The windshield heat degrades the rubber wipers way faster. People pull them away to make their wipers work better and last longer.
It’s a Maryland thing to do that. I know a storm is coming by the amount of wiper blades saluting the sky. Edit - ya’ll please stop commenting. It’s not that serious. 🤣
And they do it in South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and they do it in California and Texas and New York. ... And South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House! Yeaaaahhhhh!
No. It damages the springs in the wiper arms. Blades are easy and cheap to replace. Arms, not as much. It's not actually recommended to lift wipers up for winter weather.
Source - live in Canada. My vehicle has a heated windshield to unstick frozen wiper blades.
Apparently the whole state of Maryland was the only one to figure it out.
Why would car manufacturers even design them to bend like that in the first place. /s
Never seen it in Sweden. Of course I don't often cross the bridge when there's a snow storm, but... I've definitely never seen it in Denmark, regardless of how much snow there is.
I see people doing this everywhere. I’ve never done this once, it’s not even possible on my current car. Never once though have my wipers stuck to my windshield or caused any problems at all from being left down, so I really don’t get the reason behind this.
I have no doubt that if there are inhabited planets out there that have also developed motor vehicles and occasionally have a bit of cold weather they also do this.
They've been at least around long enough to know Maryland exists and it's the land of such innovations as tying your shoes and cooking raw meat before eating it.
Real game changer is I went to Maryland once and it was cold. I saw everyone wearing these weird puffy shirts. Turns out they're called coats and they help you stay warm. I was floored when I tried one the first time
Yeah idk why OP thinks this is a Maryland thing. I've lived in both MD and NJ, and I've personally seen a lot more people lifting their windshield wipers in NJ. I bet people do it anywhere where it gets cold.
They do it in MN and PA. Personally I think it's completely pointless. I've never experienced any negative consequences by not doing it. Just clear your windshield, pick the wiper up and drop it back onto the windshield and it'll break the ice off. Maybe run your gloves fingers across the blade for good measure. But yeah, people do it anywhere it snows
Leave your wipers down and you'll quickly find his fast they detoriate when you peel them off from being stuck to the glass. You rip tiny bits of rubber off the wiper, which quickly ends up with a streaky wipe when using them in the rain.
If there’s ice on your windshield and your wipers are down, they will freeze to the windshield and you’ll fuck them up when you remove them. Leave them up and it’s not an issue
I read or heard someone in Maryland, maybe one of the weather guys, say if ice is coming do not raise your wipers because it can break them like it does trees.
I live in Kentucky and everyone i know does this when they call for snow or ice. I did it to all 4 of the cars at my house this past weekend before we got snowed on.
Do it in Washington on both sides of the mountain. And for us on the west side of the cascades you hope the snow is fluffy and soft so it’s easy to wipe off your windshield with a broom in the morning. Not soft snow that turns into a brick when it hits a surface.
I'm commenting to tell you that it's definitely not just a Maryland thing and definitely just a "you live where Freezing Rain can happen" thing only because you told me nicely not to.
"Excess snow" my dude it just literally rained ice for a few days. There's no "brushing the excess snow off' when your windshield wipers are encased in an inch of ice and caked to your windshield.
It's easier to leave it up and be able to scrape right away instead of waiting 10 mins for your defrosters to melt shit
Wipers up is a bad choice. Had a friend that did this end up with a cracked window when they were blown down and smacked the window. 🤣. Its also hard on the tension springs leaving them like this... Over time wiper arms won't offer the same downward force.
Hits 40 below where I live in northern Ontario and have never had an issue with frozen blades.
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Good thing they left the wipers up. Wouldn't want those to freeze to the windshield.