Thanks. Ignorance fought.
You’re an odd, angry little fella, aintcha?
Reviving this to post on another death:
One day a couple of weeks ago at about 5 in the afternoon, I was stuck on a 2-lane street behind a black SUV with a non-visible dealer tag stuck behind the tinted back window, with a HUGE amount of snow and ice on top of it.
It was 73 degrees out. ?? 
After about 10 miles of being hit by the snow and ice every time dude started from a stop, he finally stopped. I stopped, too, and got out to let him know what was happening, and that it was very dangerous to let your snow and ice hit other vehicles. He was a young hispanic male with a young hispanic friend. He apologized profusely, and they began to clear the top of the SUV. I went on my way. About 10 minutes later, I’m driving along, and here he comes up on me very aggressively, flipping me off.
People suck.
I’d like to brush off my roof, but I have this luggage rack thing up there with rails and brackets and whatnot that pretty effectively prevents it. On the plus side, it pretty effectively prevents it sliding off the back while moving too.
What, nobody but me felt like bumping this thread today?
Rational people have been venting in the Pit for years about clowns who don’t clear the snow from their cars, and rightfully so. It’s always discourteous and often a bit dangerous.
But in truth – at least where I live – the type of snowfall that is really, truly, obvious-to-anyone-that-it’s-dangerous-not-to-clear doesn’t come down very often.
But overnight it did… the type with a big ol’ sheet of frozen rain on top. The type that, when you’re clearing your windshield you say to yourself, “Self, I’m glad I’m in the habit of clearing my whole car of snow as I should, because today EVERYONE will have to do it. Imagine the unspeakable danger it would create to leave such snow and frozen rain on a car traveling at highway speeds, Self! At least it is breaking apart super-easy and a cinch to brush away.”
And, of course, enormous sheets of snowy ice rained from the skies above I-95 on my way to work this morning.
Jerks.
My husband and I call them “snurds”. Short for “snow turds”. My whole family has caught on to it too - we’re hoping to make it a worldwide phenomenon. 
Car poop.
I’m not sure ours are in operation below a certain temperature.
And those snow turds…I have the urge to kick them off people’s cars in the parking lot and have to restrain myself. I cracked my bumper one year when overzealously kicking them off. :smack:
Our company has a sort of scaffold set up for the trucks before they leave the yard. The driver has a large brush and some other equipment and they can access the entire roof safely. Our employer is quite strict about trailers being free of snow before they get on the road.
And if you suck so badly at doing something nice for others, get a fucking helmet. Cuz life is going to be rough with no friends.
It’d be much safer for everyone else if YOU would just stay home until spring, with an attitude like that.
Self righteous ass.
You are really a piece of work. In one breath, you say its part of winter and you just deal with it - yet in the next you are too scared to touch your PoS car with a tool designed to help motorists in winter conditions.
Holy fuck you are self centered.
Funny thing is that snow on top of cars doesn’t bother me near as much as others. But the total and complete lack of any consideration, followed immediately with the hostile and venomous defensive response of those who don’t clean off their cars ends up making them look like real dicks.
While you address a symptom, I’d like to attack the overall disease:
stupidity and laziness (often in combination).
Too many people are too lazy to dust off the top of their vehicle and/or (mostly and) too stupid to realize the consequences of not doing so.
I have very little problem with snow blowing off people’s cars. Its sheets of ice that are far more dangerous.
And gigi, you may want to check. Many carwash operators in northern climes have floor heat in their self-serve bays and heat their water so they can stay open in cold weather.
Winter is the busiest time of the year for us carwash people!
Oh, and people coming here to get a carwash…clean the ice and snow off your fucking car before you attempt to get a wash!
I take the lack of anything from crazyjoe and Uvula Donor in ages to mean that they have conceded that they are morons, and wrong.
Idjits.
Good to know–I will have to doublecheck the public one. The free one at the dealer doesn’t run if it’s under 25.
Wrong. It means we’ve resigned ourselves, as we do every winter, to the fact that some people are just not meant to drive inthe snow, yet do it anyway. They are the people who get stuck after the first snowfall, and who drive 20mph on the freeway 4 days after a snowstorm that has been salted away. They’re the people who say “waaah, I can’t see because there’s some snow blowing off that dude’s car in front of me and I’m too uptight to turn on my wipers.”
Nope, I’m just bored with the thread. You’re still a bunch of fucking crybabies. Carry on.
Wow, you’re right, it is rough over here with no friends and a helmet. I do nice things for other people all the time. Those things don’t include damaging a $20,000 vehicle to spare you needing to turn on your windshield wipers.
It would be much safer if EVERYONE just stayed in until spring, but I don’t see that happening. Until then, I’ll keep driving to work, and if it snows during the workday, I’ll clear my windows and let the fluffy white snow blow off the back just like I always do.
So wait, you don’t understand how those 2 things go hand in hand? It’s part of winter that it snows, and there is going ot be blowing snow. I deal with it. I do not react to it by damaging my very nice (not POS) vehicle with tools that have been in no way designed to preserve its finish. Snow brushes are not meant for clearing snow safely off paint anymore than brillo pads are meant for cleaning nonstick pans. Brillo is for stainless steel, and snow brushes are for windows.
Stop being a whiny little shit about the whole thing. It’s not inconsiderate for me to NOT DAMAGE MY VEHICLE and expect you to drive like a responsible adult when it’s snowy outside.
Good lord you’re a moron.
Gorsnak,
Driver from the land of eternal winter
I can’t say I’m finding CrazyJoe’s attitude surprising, when every time I head out on the road I’m driving around buttloads of people who put their safety far ahead of mine (which implies that they have ever thought about my safety, which they haven’t). He’s just one of the millions on the roads today with the “I do as I please and no one else exists” attitude.