Freezing Rain

by **Sla** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:43 am

I would have full body pics but I knocked half the ice off before I took pictures, when I first saw it my first thought was to get it off lol

by **Biggi_e** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:53 am

damn! musta been a bitch to get that ice off in certain spots

i think it was last yr, we had some freezing rain but my dumbass left my ice scraper in the car..LOL

by **Sla** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:04 pm

well as you would expect the windows were hard as hell, but the ice on the body went easier than I expected. the ice on the rims came off together, it was like a complete ice replica

by **Biggi_e** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:09 pm

once u get a few cracks of ice on the car, your good to do but like u said windows were always the hardest part LOL

by **akora12** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:13 pm

The ice was so thick on my windows that I had to use a heat gun to get it off. We lost power 3 different times and had no heat...AWESOME!

by **GzNutz** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:25 pm

After seeing those pics I'm actually glad to have gotten a foot of snow instead of 3/4" + of ice!

by **Midias** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:47 pm

I know the feeling

by **QuickSEV6** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:57 pm

That is why I moved to Texas.

by **Midias** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:02 pm

QuickSEV6 wrote:That is why I moved to Texas.

And I thought it was because your old bones cold not handle the cold anymore.

by **philosophicaljt** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:14 pm

you must be from ohio, it was nasty here.

by **akora12** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:20 pm

^Indiana, but it sounds like several of us got the brunt of the same storm.

by **SleeperSolara** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:01 pm

I remember when that happened to us in OKC.
We had about an 1" of ice on everythin'.
Trees broke like twigs.
And when we were takin' ice off my moms' Camry and my bro's Accord, the ice was so thick you had to pound on the ice to crack it and push the ice sheet off.
It was crazy.
We didn't have power for a whole week.

by **Gangis** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:32 pm

Wow. I'm going on a road trip to Massachusetts next month... I hope my car survives!

by **LEE337** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:51 pm

QuickSEV6 wrote:That is why I moved to Texas.

Thats why I love Texas!!!
They say if you don't like the weather in Texas, just wait 5 min. :bang:

by **crispone** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:27 pm

I was in the "strip" of heavy ice here in Ohio a few years ago, and we had 3/4" to 1" on everything. Freezing rain fell for most of 2 days on and off... and there was about 18 straight hours of it at one point. No power for 4.5 days, no heat, water, anything... and then I managed to get a $650 generator from Granger Wholesale center on a government sponsored deal. The same generators were going for $3,000-$5,000 on the street, and the small portable units were still pulling a couple grand and couldn't even run a coffee maker! DOH!

This recent pass was 1/4" or so... and other than icy evening and morning with all school and service cancellations, it was NOTHING like the last bad one!

Ice storms really suck... but they are one of the most BEAUTIFUL and MESMERIZING events, when the crystalline chiming of the trees in constant frozen flux are alive with the musical crackling of their audible glistening... like a magical musical metamorphosis that is stuck in state between ice and water...

I recorded some video/audio while walking around in my yard that day... and the crunching beneath my feet, snapping of limbs and WHOLE TREES, and constant jingling like a million wind chimes blown by the breeze... is like no other experience I've had on this earth.

Majestic, indeed.

PS: In my estimation and past experience, UNLESS you absolutely HAVE to "mobilize your car immediately", it is BETTER to let the ice "melt" off than remove it by force. It CAN damage your paint, and even cause dings if not very careful. :wink:

-crisp

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