OT: Snow Removal From Your Car Before Driving

[nelsonmuntz]

I am enjoying every bit of every one of your posts in this thread. Just clean the snow off your car.

Did I mention that I park in a garage? (#10)

 

[Kitaman]

Not sure if this helps anyone but I always

1. Park my car in the back of the driveway (close to the street). This is for emergencies. I can walk through snow to get my car but my car can't cut through snow to get to the street. Basically I don't have shovel to leave the house if I have an emergency.

2. Always move my car to the street and then clean the snow off of it in the street. I hate shoveling twice.

3. Always keep cash around in case some teens come by and you feel lazy and haven't started shoveling yet.

*no garage

 

[boog204]

All of you garage people just think you're better than me, huh?

 

[temery]

Did I mention that I park in a garage? (#10)

"Even parking in the garage, I would be about 20x more dangerous to drivers around me"

Clean the snow off your car, and don't tailgate whoever is in front of you.

If a sheet of ice/snow flies off your car and causes damage to cars behind you, "they were driving too close" will never be an acceptable defense.

 

[husky429]

People have garages they can use? My half of the garage is taken up by my crap.

 

[CL82]

I have a garage, but I actually pile snow on my car before driving it.

Increases the R value of the roof and keeps the car warmer.

That was you?

 

[CL82]

I am enjoying every bit of every one of your posts in this thread. Just clean the snow off your car.

Anyone else hearing an unwritten "ass hat" at the end of that last sentence?

 

[Shamon30]

I remove every last trace. I've been pulled over too many times not to.

 

[Ha Who]

Your math checks out. Did you use AI, or are you just smart?


Reminds me of:

"Teacher, am I ever going to use any of this math?"

"No, but some of the smart kids might."

I’ll give you one guess. I can tell you that I am not smart as someone who insists this thread is about tailgating and that we’re all reckless drivers.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

... I am not smart as someone who insists this thread is about tailgating and that we’re all reckless drivers.

Nobody is.

But the 10x humble brag about having a garage that can fit a car (and using it) keeps the earth on its axis.

 

[Lafayette]

Doesn’t the Virgin Islands have regular cable where you’d get Fox, FS1, ESPN, etc.? The hotels do so I’d imagine the residents can also. Anyway in today’s world there are streaming services so not an issue getting UConn games.

Satellite I think not cable. Problem becomes the spread of streamers needed but hopefully a Sling blue account will help

 

[Lafayette]

All moot on Sunday as a foot or more snow means no driving anyway. Hard enough finding the car never mind trying to drive it.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I’ll give you one guess. I can tell you that I am not smart as someone who insists this thread is about tailgating and that we’re all reckless drivers.

This thread quickly became a shaming thread. If you are going to shame, it should be about something that is seriously dangerous, is completely within each of our control, and most of this board clearly does.

I know plenty of actuaries. Should I find out which of an inch or two of snow on the car or tailgating results in more claims?

 

[RichZ]

Where I live, Jessica’s law states you must remove all snow before driving. Snow still on the car becomes a projectile that can cause serious harm. I’ve seen sheets of ice fly off the back of pickups and almost total cars

That's actually the law in CT, too. But it's rarely enforced until it causes an accident. Connecticut law (CGS § 14-252a)
requires drivers to clear all snow and ice from their vehicle's hood, roof, and trunk so it doesn't become a hazard, or risk a $75 fine.; if dislodged snow causes injury or property damage, fines increase to $200-$1,000 ... higher for commercial vehicles.

 

[JMick]

This thread quickly became a shaming thread. If you are going to shame, it should be about something that is seriously dangerous, is completely within each of our control, and most of this board clearly does.

I know plenty of actuaries. Should I find out which of an inch or two of snow on the car or tailgating results in more claims?

It's hilarious that you think everyone who cleans off snow from their car also tailgates

 

[CL82]

It's hilarious that you think everyone who cleans off snow from their car also tailgates

Well, he's probably discussed this with the "plenty of actuaries" he knows and they've told him there's a high degree of correlation.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

It's hilarious that you think everyone who cleans off snow from their car also tailgates

You are really bad at this.

 

[Ha Who]

Well, he's probably discussed this with the "plenty of actuaries" he knows and they've told him there's a high degree of correlation.

It’s funny because my son is an actuary, but I’m not going to bother him with this moron unless I have him run the numbers on idiocy and hijacking a thread

 

[HuskyNan]

Well, he's probably discussed this with the "plenty of actuaries" he knows and they've told him there's a high degree of correlation.

@Phil

 

[slepers]

Point Center supports douchy behavior not cleaning your car of snow. If the shoe fits! Regardless if you posted #8 times you park in a garage. Anyway, go UConn! See everyone in Hartford Saturday on a brutally cold day.

But will you be parking in a garage on Saturday?

 

[Zanzman]

Did I mention that I park in a garage? (#10)

Is it your garage ?

 

[Scoe]

Nelson quit being lazy and take the snow off your car. Whether you park in a garage or not take the damn snow off your car.

 

[bdbdbdbd]

I have to disagree with this. A few weeks ago I was on the highway and a big sheet of ice came off a SUV that was very far in front of me, maybe 200-250 feet. The sheet of ice was twisting and turning up in the air for what seemed like 7-8 seconds. I was trying to determine where it was going to land. Luckily there wasn’t a lot of traffic so I had the ability to switch into a lane where it wasn’t going to land. But it was pretty scary trying to dodge a piece of ice that big when I didn’t know where it was going. If it hit my car there would have been damage. If it hit my windshield, well I’m sure it would have been no bueno.

I recall years ago driving through Hartford on I-84 at about 60 mph on a windy day, when the hood of a pickup truck in front of me came unlatched, caught the wind, detached from the truck, went about 30 feet up in the air, and came down multiple vehicle lengths behind.

There's no predictability about flying projectiles in highway traffic on a windy day.

 

[bdbdbdbd]

I have a strong suspicion that this is perilously close to becoming the most Boneyard thread ever.

I think this needs to be expanded to debate whether fans of BC, Syracuse, Duke, or another team of your choice are most likely to drive with snow piled on their vehicles, to tailgate, or to do both.

 

[Kolumbo]

You can be moving with traffic at 65 or more and still be 3-4 seconds back. It is not a speed thing, it is keeping a safe distance. The car behind you can always pass. Actually, if you are back further from the car in front of you, it makes it easier for them to pass if they want to drive faster. Everyone wins.

I use adaptive cruise control all the time, and even use it on exit ramps. It speeds up the car and slows it down. I don't risk a ticket, and I never tailgate. Staying back has saved my ass several times. It can be something as random as the car in front of me slamming on the brakes because a deer is in the road. The extra second enables me to not slam on my brakes, but slow down under control.

Adaptive cruise control is one of those idiotic inventions. some nimrod is Sunday driving in the middle lane which causes each successive car to slow down unnecessarily. Rather than actually pay attention and drive and pass the nimrod, people let their car slow down and next thing you know everyone is doing 60. The only fast driving lane becomes the right lane because everyone is clogging up the left two lanes. Meanwhile in Europe people have known for decades, stay to the right.