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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 wit

by dgzl 8y ago

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.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago
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.
- dgzl 8y ago
  Yeah... Gripping and flipping a sheet of ice off a windshield is surprisingly satisfying.
  - thb567 8y ago
    Same feeling here 4000 miles away from US, that's probably just an old almost forgotten reflex from the last ice age
hermitdev 8y ago
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.