It just snowed 18 inches here in the wonderful Northeast. Gravity brought it down from the sky but simple physics suggests it is not going to remain on your roof as you hurl yourself through our world. In fact, that hardening pile of snow will likely fly off, directly onto my windshield.
You are obviously capable of removing snow from a vehicle, as your windshield is magically unobstructed, but I am guessing you used your little scraper with a brush. Given this remarkable talent of yours to remove snow solely from where you deem important and vital to operating your car, here is a novel idea: get a friggin broom, stand on one side of your car, hold the broom over your head horizontal to the ground, and push the snow off the roof, you lazy egocentric moron. It is realy quite simple.
I’d be surprised if there weren’t laws to this effect. However, I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard of anyone ever getting a summons for it. I agree with you that it’s a potentially dangerous situation, and I’ve seen it all too frequently. I chalk it up to sheer laziness.
The best part is when the jerk with the 10 inches of snow piled on his roof comes to a stop at a red light and that whole sheet of snow slides forward onto his own windshield. Good times.
I know the drivers can’t be expected really to do anything about it, but 18-wheelers drive around and loosen huge sheets of compacted ice/snow out of nowhere onto whoever is driving behind them. That’s a blast, getting nailed by one of those.
Yep, that was me one day…I cleaned off my roof every time afterwards.
I have to say, though, there are some really high roofs on vans and SUV’s and such. They may not be able to reach it, or have a bad back, and so I usually give them a pass.
I’m one of those who never brushed off the roof of my car. Honest to God, I jest never thought about it until one day, my husband got into the car with me and announced that I was a walking Pit thread for neglecting to remove the snow from the top of my car.
I’ve done it ever since, and I give general apology to all those I must have pissed off over the years. ignorance is no excuse, but it just never occurred to me that it would give someone else problems. (No, I’ve never been clobbered with someone else’s snow.)
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I’d just like to take this opportunity to give a hearty Nelson Muntz style laugh at you East Coasters with 20 inches of snow. We here in Minneapolis have maybe 3 inches on the ground. ahem Ha-ha!
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Seconded NurseCarmen. Add to that we’re in the middle of February and it has yet to get colder than -8. We’re feeling pretty smug up here. It was 28 degrees when I left the ofice. I love heat waves.
I don’t quite get this. I mean, I presume you’re not driving one of those 18-wheelers, so is it really impossible to reach the roof of the car with a broom? What do you mean, no “safe” way? Getting snow off the roof of a stationary car never seemed like a particularly hazardous activity to me. Kind of messy, yes, and requiring some brushing and sweeping and shoveling afterward, but well worth it to avoid being one of those maroons who cruise down the highway swishing snow onto the people behind them.
It is sometimes difficult to get the roof entirely clean on a high vehicle, though, and I always cut some slack to a car I see sporting a “snohawk”—a nearly clean-swept roof with a narrow ridge of snow running down the middle of it where the broom couldn’t reach. Hey, at least they tried to keep their snowy car from being a safety hazard.
I’m really having trouble imagining a car high enough, and a person short enough, that a soft, long-handled broom couldn’t remove the majority of the snow from the vehicle’s roof.
No-one’s saying that you have to remove every last flake, but surely it’s relatively easy to push the main slab off so it doesn’t come off in one big sheet while you’re driving.
On my way to work this morning, I saw a guy with only half of his hood cleared off. Apparently, everything he needs to see in order to be a safe driver is going to come from the left.
Hey, at least they tried to keep their snowy car from being a safety hazard.
