Joeb427

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http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/01/...er-main-break/



An apparent water main break beneath East 2nd St. has encased parked cars in ice and caused the pavement to sink in.

dunnojack

nice.

before i clicked, i thought the cars were submerged and became car ice cubes.

I would use .......

MPLexus301

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Just get a bunch of bums to start peeing on it.

GFerg

I was hoping the owner wouldnt turn on the heat/rear defogger to melt the ice on the windows. Get to end of story, he did. Shattered window.

rominl

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that was a bad move...

IS-SV

I would hope insurance company would consider it totaled.

TOPSECRTIS

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Flamethrower?

xioix

I would just use hot water

TOPSECRTIS

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Any rapid heating, hot water, defroster on high, or flamethrower can crack the windows.
50 percent water and 50 percent ethyl alcohol works well for deicing. If I came out to see my car like that, I would say "see you in a few days."

-J-P-L-

We need to stop procrastinating and work to reverse this global warming.


That would most likely shatter all the glass. Best thing to do is wait until it melts naturally. Can't rush something like this.

mmarshall

With the intensely cold air gripping the eastern two-thirds of the country, a lot of water-mains have been breaking, particularly the older, worn-out ones that can't take the stress. We see this kind of stuff, here and there, every time a cold Arctic high-pressure system moves south out of Canada this time of year. In fact, just this morning, a 56-inch water main broke here in the D.C. area, with a huge flood, and shut down the Beltway (I-495) for awhile.

Och

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mmarshall

The windows shouldn't crack if he doesn't use the defroster too intensely and overheat them in comparison to their surroundings. My Outback, for example, not only has a regular hot-air defroster in front, but an electric-grid heater for the lower front windshield, similiar to the rear defroster, that thaws out frozen wiper-blades as well (they have separate switches on the older Outbacks; a single common-control switch on the new ones). You just have to remember to turn it off after a few minutes, that's all. Of course, the car in the picture is an extreme case....but still, if you use the defrosters slowly and carefully, the windows shouldn't crack.

In fact, factory engineers usually test new-vehicle designs for cold-weather defrosting capability by either taking the vehicles to northern Canada or placing them in special deep-freeze rooms and coating them with moisture to simulate different types of winter conditions.

mmarshall

That's true. NEVER use hot water on cold windows. But defroster use is fine if not overdone...see my comments above. You can use hot water on the door locks, if desired, to thaw them out or loosen them up, but only lukewarm water around the edges of the door seals (where the water may contact the window glass).

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