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 if an ice storm is coming, i'll clean my windshield and then throw a fresh towel across it. who cares about parts where there's paint
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lifelong floridian but i'm p. sure physics works the same everywhere
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it might not though, and thorough testing is the cornerstone of rigour
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taqueso posted:The tarp thing is not that strange, though I can't say I've ever seen someone use one. Since moving to CO from IL I've seen a lot of gimmicky poo poo like this The number one most confusing thing that I see here that I never saw in IL is people lifting the windshield wipers long before it snows because...? Definitely worth wearing out the tension springs for no reason lol It's glaringly and hiliariously obvious when someone has no experience in cold winter weather, especially with all the southerners and Californians around here
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I have concrete memories of the blizzard of '96, I wish we'd had the tarp trick then
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OK baizuo posted:Definitely worth wearing out the tension springs for no reason idk if this works at all and saw it a lot in Duluth but also that’s some extreme dad “I don’t want to burn out my headlights early” driving without headlights on at all times logic
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You aren't going to wear out the springs lifting the wipers.
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OK baizuo posted:Since moving to CO from IL I've seen a lot of gimmicky poo poo like this its common in IL, as I live here and saw a dozen of my neighbors doing it. Its to prevent your wipers from freezing to your windshield so you can use them
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yeah you lift the wipers so that they don't get little ice clumps on them
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i lift the wipers so i can forget to put them back down then when i try to wiper the last powdery bits of snow off my windshield they just wiggle pointlessly at the sky
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if your door handle freezes you can pee on it to thaw it
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what if we assume a perfectly frictionless tarp and a perfectly spherical car
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I can confirm that there is now ice on the ground in Houston. Which is not where ice belongs at all.
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put the wiper blades up so you can dig out the snow and ice that deposits at the base of the windshield, and also not have ice blocks for wipers. it’s winter 5-6 months of the year here, first snow in mid October and sticks around until mid April. last night it was -47c with the windchill lol
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Why don't you just get a remote start or perhaps consider parking your car in the garage lmao
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i like to stuff the tarp beneath the wiper blades
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remote start is great but it’s not going to melt snow off a windshield, that’s what pulling into traffic and letting it blow off is for
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Doomy posted:remote start is great but it’s not going to melt snow off a windshield, that’s what pulling into traffic and letting it blow off is for Dude you gotta remember to set the heat on full blast when you park and then start it when you get up. Even if it doesn't literally melt everything away there will be a puddle under that snow and you can just push broom it off, shloomp. It always cracked me up seeing people pull up to a stop having not cleared the roof and since the car had warmed up a bit the whole pile just slides forward onto the windshield.
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keep the roof of your car open and light a bonfire inside it to turn any falling snow into harmless rain
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:what if we assume a perfectly frictionless tarp and a perfectly spherical car
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https://poweroutage.us
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:what if we assume a perfectly frictionless tarp and a perfectly spherical car what if the car was on a treadmill
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Computer, play Gummo
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Just secure the tarp in the rear to something like stakes in the ground or tied off to an ???, through the eyelets, then drive away forwards.
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just accept that once your vehicle is fully encased in the snow that the car is lost until spring meanwhile you can tie the tarp to the back of your neighbors car and ride it to work like a sled
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use 2 tarps
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if you pull the tarps under the wheels while the car is in neutral fast enough it'll take off
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Tarp Talk
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ive also heard that pouring boiling water on your car to simply melt the snow away is a good life hack
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alternately cover your car in salt. really grind it into all the crannies so that the snow melts faster
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also getting the snow off my car is my driver’s job. and if he didn’t do it my assistant could
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My cars buried in snow, buy me a new one.
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with tarp, all things are possible
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I remember TARP
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Troubled Automobile Relief Program
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Lots of posts in the weather thread, RIP Texas. Oh, no, everyone is just tarpin' around.
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Wait so if the main problem with the tarp plan is the weight of the snow, why not brine the tarp??
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Wait so if the main problem with the tarp plan is the weight of the snow, why not brine the tarp??  Is this you?
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Blue Tarp Man hates Government Man
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Doomy posted:remote start is great but it’s not going to melt snow off a windshield, that’s what pulling into traffic and letting it blow off is for I don't think you do it right, you use a short pipe pipe and to blow the exhaust into the car to super heat up the interior and quickly melt off the snow
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