I was born and raised in the Southwest so I never encountered snow and ice, however but when I moved up North, for work, I experienced my first Northern winter.
I felt it was quite an accomplishment, the first time I drove in the snow.
I went super slow and I made it lake house from toil just fine, and my neighborhood salts the roads and I guess that salt is awful for the vehicles. I’ve seen a bunch of them all eaten up with rust. That’s why I made the crazy decision to rinse my car off with the garden hose when I got lake house from work. That was stupid. In the morning, my car was frozen solid to the driveway, and even if the doors were frozen shut. I was out there trying to figure out what to do when 1 of my neighbors came and helped me out. I could tell she was trying not to laugh at my stupid mistake while she hooked up a space oil furnace to an extension cord. Together, we use the space oil furnace and moved it around the car in order to thaw the vehicle out. It took over an hour but eventually, we were able to transfer my car into the garage. There, I left the space oil furnace running in order to dry out the car and get rid of any remaining ice. Then, the both of us went back into my house and thawed ourselves out near my gas furnace vents. I have never been so thankful for central heating as I was that morning. I’ve also never been so cold as I had been away from my gas furnace.