Orange beach today
Calling it an epic storm.
(Not smart enough to rotate)
Calling it an epic storm.
(Not smart enough to rotate)
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Pro tip for y'all newbs.
Clear the snow off the roof of your vehicle before you leave the house. When the heater warms up it will loosen its grip and next time you hit the brake to slow down or stop all that roof snow will slide perfectly over your windshield. If it's decent amount your wipers will be buried and you'll be driving like Ray Charles.
Clear the snow off the roof of your vehicle before you leave the house. When the heater warms up it will loosen its grip and next time you hit the brake to slow down or stop all that roof snow will slide perfectly over your windshield. If it's decent amount your wipers will be buried and you'll be driving like Ray Charles.
Or it comes flying off in a huge sheet and hits the car behind you.
Thank you sir..
How you get that heavy sh*t off a metal roof? Can it damage roof?
Thanks
Totally misread the title. Was hoping for an NSFW thread.
Whenever we get a snow I throw a tarp on my truck cab. After it stop I drag it off with all the snow.
I put my flip flops on and grab a snow brush...
Be careful with the tarp. It will flop around in the wind, scratch the paint, freeze to the paint or flat out rip. You're not getting the tarp off this without shredding the paint or the tarp.
Snow rake is the best tool. Soft foam hits the paint and it has a fard plastic backing. I have mine on a 20' pole so I can hit both vehicles from the front porch in my undies. (Tall pole with red rake.)
That aluminum scoop shovel is a beast for shoveling roofs or driveways.
Snow brushes don’t work very well for us most of the time because it’s to heavy and wet snow.
The brush is just for windows/mirrors. The snow broom (I said rake originally, but that's for the roof of your house) is the mover. You actually push it all off.
It snows from late September to June here, we get it all. Champagne powder, sticky wet stuff, and even this shìt called graupel. It looks like styrofoam pellets. Wet snow actually moves really good if you push it, terrible if you pull it for some reason.
If it's powder and less than 3" I use my battery powered leaf blower. Less than 1", I don't even mess with it. I tried to get cute early on and put cardboard on the windshield and the other layer froze to it. So I had to crank the defrost up and melt the ice paper mix and scrape it off... Never again.
If you ever want to have fun and do something completely satisfying, running a snowblower through deep snow is an absolute blast .. not 4 times a week at 4:30 am to get cars out of the driveway 2 hours later, but in a sunny Sunday afternoon it's really fun.
I get snowblower wood like you probably get tractor wood *** Nothing touches an Ariens.
I cut a tarp to fit the windshield, cuts down on the flapping in the wind (mine is pretty sheltered from wind) and I use small rare earth magnets to hold it in place. When magnets aren't being used I just stick them on the inside of the front tire wheel wells
I just learned that it's illegal in Georgia to drive with snow or ice on the roof of your car. I knew it was polite to remove the snow, but I didn't know it was required by law.
Only about a dozen states have such laws, and I wouldn't have guessed Georgia would be one of them.
In other states, though, you could still be ticketed for unsafe driving.
And, no, I did not learn this the hard way...although until this year I thought driving around was the easiest way to remove snow from your roof.
Only about a dozen states have such laws, and I wouldn't have guessed Georgia would be one of them.
In other states, though, you could still be ticketed for unsafe driving.
And, no, I did not learn this the hard way...although until this year I thought driving around was the easiest way to remove snow from your roof.
The car behind you is not at too much risk. It usually flies up a little bit and then hits the ground, just don't follow to close if you see it on the car in front of you.
The problem is the cars passing you in the other direction on 2 lane roads. I have been blasted in the windshield by a snowman size chunk of snow coming off a passing truck's bed cover. Luckily there was no ice, but people get their windshields busted out from the ice often enough to make you pay attention.
We are between 5,000' and 6,000' and it's about a 2-2.5 hour drive to Boise where the elevation is 2700'. The highway connecting is mostly 2 lane and usually around 4,000' there is no snow and it's warmer. So we might have gotten a foot of snow overnight, but 45 minutes down the road it's 38° and the roads are perfectly clear allowing you to drive full speed. The tourists won't clear the snow off the roofs and will head back to Boise at 60+ mph on a winding 2 lane road bombing the shìt out of the passerbys... It's real life Mario Cart situation.
They also make covers for windshields that also protect against frost which is convenient as well.
