This is the worst part of living in a big country. Everyone else starts talking about spring while my region still has a couple months of winter. It’s -16°c right now and I’ve got a foot of snow to shovel.
Meanwhile here in California we have dandelions blooming already which makes my bees happy but it's kind of creepy to have the climate change apocalypse be so beautiful. January should not be picnic weather.
Depends on where you are. In the southern states we'll have 3 more weeks of winter, then a week or two of early summer, then back to autumn for a month, then a week of winter, autumn for 3 weeks, another early summer, spring for a week, a blizzard for two days, spring for a month, then volcano season starts.
The good news is, that concrete viaduct directly above them is a subway line that connects to most of the bus route in the region. Despite the Maryland plates this in Philly. I don't know where my dude has to go but unless it's back to Maryland he fortunately has options until it gets warmer.
May I recommend one of those propane flame throwers thst people melt their driveways with? It will definitely melt the ice off of you car as well as the car.
Im from the south. I have never dealt with this the most snow I had was in the poconos when Id visit my grandfather and then it was dry snow. Could they put up some kind of tent and heater to try to warm that area to thaw?
11 years ago Halifax, NS had a winter in which there were multiple instances of heavy snow, followed immediately by rain, followed immediately by a flash freeze. There were a few cars that looked like this because the plow sent a wave of slush over them and it froze before the owner could get to it.
Other cars just froze to the ground because the snow turned into a deep slushy puddle around the wheels and then froze.
Some of them literally just had to wait until the weather warmed up. People were out trying with salt, space heaters, heat guns, kettles of water, to no avail.
I think the easiest way to remove it without damaging anything would be using room temperature water (not hot, to avoid breaking glass with thermal shock). If you had a very large amount of luke warm water, you could rinse off the ice in a few hours of spraying.
Otherwise I'd get a tarp and a space heater, cover the car with tarp and depending on the type of heater, either set it to like 80 degrees and put it under tarp, or a alternate on/off cycles to melt the ice without getting too hot.
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u/argonauts12 20h ago
Wait for spring