When I (Texan)lived briefly in the northeast, I loved cleaning all the snow off my car. It was so novel and so satisfying to watch it come off in layers. Especially using the ice scraper on the frozen bottom layer…
A few years after moving back to Texas, we had an unseasonably and record amount of snowfall. I’d kept my window brush/squeegee/scraper, so I ran around my apartment parking lot, asking everyone if they’d like the snow off their car. Some people would see me gleefully cleaning a car, and they’d get excited, saying that they wanted to try it. Enough people wanted to try, that I just left them the scraper and told them my apartment number. A few hours later, there was a knock at my door, and my scraper was outside and 95% of the cars were completely clean.
I guess the moral of the story is to fly in some Texans when the snow gets that bad? I dunno, I just wanted to share.
Bye!
That’s such a cute story. It reminds me of when I go to sweep the floor at work and curious kids ask to try using the broom. Hell yeah, little dude! Let’s turn this chore into something fun!
It’s all fun and games until you brake and the whole thing slides down and covers the front windshield and you can’t see anything. Source: I was lazy about this once, but never again.
idiotgloo.
run mode: naruto
That’s a safety measure.
More weight over the rear axle improves traction.And if someone hits you in the top rear your good to go.
The number of clowns in Canada who drive around after clearing the minimum amount of snow necessary to drive their car and see out their windsheild. Beyond lazy
The person in the screenshot has cleared their entire windshield instead of a minimal viewport, that’s above average already
“Entire windshield” is a very generous description. There’s still quite a bit of snow that seems to mostly have been pushed around by the wiper blades.
Lived in Massachusetts for a decade, it ain’t just Canadians lemme tell ya
Anywhere there is snow there is people too negligent to clean it off properly.
The worst is when the back window is covered with fluffy snow and you can see that there’s a rear wiper. Like all you have to do is press a single button but apparently that is too much.
Lmao that wiper is frozen stuck to the windshield
That’s why I said “fluffy snow”. Fluffy snow does not freeze wipers to windows.
I’ve might have had cars with a weak back wiper but there’s only one type of snow that it can manage to wipe away and that’s packing snow. 😅 All other types will leave the wiper stuck in the morning
It can if it rained the night before. Ask me how I know. (I do clean my car far better than most people, I’ve had trucks blanket my entire windshield before and fuck doing that too someone else).
Anyway though yeah I’ve found out the hard way my back windshield wiper don’t wanna move at all even after a light dusting lol.
Hey! I’m not lazy! I’m just in a rush, totally different!
So they’re saving time.
Any negatives?
I guess it might be annoying to drive behind someone with a roof full of snow falling on your windshield.
Any negatives?
Yeah. You can kill people.
When that stuff dislodges on the highway it’s not like your car getting hit by a snowball. It’s like having an entire wheelbarrow full of snow hit your car all at once at 50+ mph. Just the weight of it can KO your entire windshield. It’s a super effective way to make someone crash.
Also, it’s not always just snow. If the snow on your vehicle sat there through a couple of freeze/thaw cycles, there can be a big sheet of ice underneath. If that goes through someone’s windshield it can kill them directly. If you live in a snowy place, pretty much everyone you know has a story about the time they almost died because some asshole was too lazy to clean off the roof of their SUV, or because a huge sheet of ice flew off the top of a semi-trailer.
Trucks are the worst. Theyre supposed to go through a tall pole that’ll literally sweep off all the snow from a trailer. Except that not all trailers are the same and not all drivers are smart. Scariest moment of my life when they’re able to damn near cover an entire 2 lane road with snow.
Yeah, it’s wildly dangerous to drive with ice and snow on the top of your car as it becomes projectiles and hampers other drivers visibility.
So the same as driving behind a large truck?
Only if that large truck has an unsecured load, which is illegal.
So visibility is not an issue, since it is the same as driving behind a truck or a bus. Keep your distance.
How is soft falling snow comparable to heavy goods? Again, keep your distance, as you would when driving behind a truck, and it won’t fall on your car, but on the road. Also, have winter tires.
Are you one of those dangerous drivers that tailgates, and drives way too close, doesn’t keep a safe distance and then blames others?
Wow getting back into the whole “everyone is a terrible driver except for me” again
Either you don’t have a drivers license, have never been in traffic or live in a paradise where all drivers are perfect. In any case you have no experience of snow I guess. :)
You can keep all the distance you like, but the second there’s “space” for another car in front of you, someone will drive past and place themselves just in front of you.
Wait are you really advocating for the notion that driving with snow on your vehicle is safe and others ought to watch out?
In a handful of the states where snow is common it is illegal to drive with snow on your car, because of how dangerous it is.
Did you also struggle with the concept of how wearing a mask helped protect others, which in turn protected you.
Lmao check lemvotes on this chud
Your inability to take responsibility for your own moronic decisions is both pathetic and wrong. Sad. You are genuinely trash if you feel such problems are fine for others to just deal with.
Have fun being trash!
In addition to what the others said, you’re unnecessarily increasing the amount of ice/snow on the road. You also decrease visibility for drivers in the opposite lane depending on the wind direction. It only takes a couple minutes at the most to clean off the majority of snow, unless you’re a lazy tosser.
If the snow suddenly obscures the vision of the driver, or a following vehicle, it’s dangerous rather than annoying.
Isn’t it just like driving behind a lorry or large truck? Keep your distance.
The snow can blow off and affect visibility or even throw projectiles for multiple truck lengths. Plus it won’t just stay in one lane. If an uncleared vehicle passes you in another lane you’re still on danger.
So drop the “everybody is a terrible driver except for me” arguments
The distance that snow can fall off and hit your vehicle can be longer than a safe gap, and in any case, you should generally not be driving in such a way as to rely on other people driving perfectly safely except where it’s impractical not to. Since it’s perfectly practical to fully clear vehicles of snow, that’s what ya gotta do.
You can see it the same way as pulling out in front of someone. Sure, unless you’re a complete moron, doing so rarely results in a crash, because the other driver will brake to avoid hitting you. But every once in a while that driver will be distracted, or unable to react in time, or be unable to slow down as well as you thought. Or, you can see it as slowing down when passing parked cars in narrow situations: everyone should be behaving sensibly and so you should be able to maintain a high speed, but all it takes is someone to step out from behind a car without looking or an oncoming vehicle to deviate from their lane and you have a disaster.
Why do you think this is unique to Canadians? Americans do it, Europeans do it.
Don’t throw shade when you’re guilty yourself lmfao
Given they’re posting from lemmy.ca they’re probably talking about the country they live in lmao
Schmidt is a well known bad take kinda guy.
One of my favorite hot takes is how “poor people should spend their money smarter, be more responsible so they aren’t poor anymore”
Crazy how you just assumed that they aren’t canadian and that they don’t remove ice/snow from their car, if they have one
Maybe in some parts of Europe, but this is illegal where I live. Punishable by fine or loss of license depending on how severe the coverage is.
This is illegal everywhere.
It looks like a car crown.
That rear suspension is holding up pretty good imo
Only because it’s frozen solid!
That car is being held together by the ice.
That down force must be crazy!
There’s a rotting pumpkin on their doorstep and a brown Christmas tree in their living room.
“Is this the return to Oz?”
DoooooorrrrttttTTTTTHHHYYYYY GAAAAAAALLLLLEEEEE!!!
This car looks like it wants to invade Narn
It’s being nibbled to death by cats.
The Ford Mollari
Everybody’s cute. But in steely grey… I’m STUNNING
Looks like they just pulled out of that snow bank behind the truck to take a picture because they were surprised it stayed in place.
No self respecting Canadian is going to drive around with a road hazard on their roof. Unless they’re from Brampton.
Would probably make it melt a little then slide off
Edit: nvm it’s on the roof I’m blind
This is actually a pickup truck I believe, the bed is full.
The rear defrost is right behind the driver, it’s got like 10 feet of snow to get through.
Dodge the father, ram the pile of snow into the car behind you!
