| > no worries about breaking the window by removing the ice. i grew up in pittsburgh where
> during the winter i'd often have to take snow and ice off the window and i can tell you > the windows can take a lot of abuse. Yepp, here in Germany we are used to scraping the ice from the windows "full stroke", as many people have no own house and garage to keep the car over night. Often, when you wake up in the morning after a cold and snowy night, you can already hear "strange noises" from the street, itīs the other people "treating" there cars, who donīt want to loose to much time getting to work. Also, no need to really carefully heat up, here often, you start the engine, set heating and ventilation to max, route it on the windows and hope that that stuff will go away as fast as possible (while you still start scratching, especially on the side windows, that will not get so much from the internal heating). Many cars have electric heating for the rear and even the front window, but this will be heavy on the battery, especially on a cold day. I hate to do all that on such a cold day. After a short while, all your sensation in the fingers go away if you donīt have really good gloves. Good that we did not yet have one this winter. Joachim |
Heavy Snow in Shanghai