Oh my goodness! People are crazy. My ex would scrape the driver's side of the front windshield ONLY when it was covered in frost. I clear every part of every window and the side view mirrors. I'm probably extreme, but he was being lazy. I'd ask How can you see to drive?! He just didn't care. So I assume those that leave a foot of snow on their car are like he is, they don't care? It's merely a guess.

Man 80 fined. Wonder Why

A terrible experience, if you are the one it flies on to. Tractor trailers are the worst. Of course their ability to clean it off is not as good as the auto drivers. Not having a full view out of a windshield is another biggie for me also. Bought every GC scrapers with brush and a solar powered flash light when they got their license and a truck. Hopefully they take the time to use them.

Hate that also. I have seen too many large pieces come sailing off of cars and you just pray it doesn't hit you! Anyone driving like that should get a ticket.

Even if you are thinking only of yourself, that snow can come down on the front windshield and you can't see where you're going. Even for a split second, that can be dangerous.

the guy in sharonann's post was too feeble to clear it and the police helped him. But, and this is my thought on it, does that mean he shouldn't be driving? Incapable of clearing it may make one incapable of driving? Something along that line. At least, that's what I thought when I read the story last week.

I heard the fine can be as much as $1500.

Years ago, I saw this station wagon with snow and ice on the roof come to a stop at a light, on a downhill grade. A huge swath of snow came loose, slid forward and covered the entire windshield.

Uh...what do you do then?

I think if you can not make your car road safe, you should not be driving it.

Another big problem with this storm is people walking on the roads; the already narrowed roads. Yesterday, I saw a man walking against traffic in the far right lane. He had a ~6-7 year old girl behind him.

School was canceled. What on earth could have been so urgent to walk your child in traffic?

Ice and snow are treacherous on the rooftop of a vehicle.

Can you imagine that huge chunk of ice flying right at you? I hope that dash cam was able to capture the license plate of the jerk driving with snow and ice on the car.

DH was behind a gal (on the interstate) in a Porsche and witnessed her car being struck by a sheet of ice flying off the vehicle in front of her.

Shattered her windshield. Fortunately, she was able to pull off w/out incident.

It's a wonder there wasn't more accidents caused. She had to cross 4 lanes to get to the side of the road!!

Kind of like that video....

I don't think someone should be banned from driving just because they can't clear their car of snow. I would imagine people in wheelchairs, for example, might be perfectly competent to drive but unable to reach high enough to clear a car. But, IMO, the driver is responsible for making sure the car is safe before driving it, so that would mean arranging for someone else to clear it.

As far as the man and little girl walking, who knows? But I'm wondering if poverty is the main issue there--some people would lose their job if they stayed home to take care of a child on a snow day, so they may have been walking to work together or to a family member or friend who could take care of the child during the work day.

When I was in elementary school, although most of the time I would walk to school, I remember many times when my father would drive us to school in the morning in the winter. He'd hop in the frost-covered car, turn on the defroster, and as soon as there was an oval hole about 3" by 5" that he could hunch over and peer through, he head off down the road.

Seeing how he drove I was happy that my walking route to school was nowhere near where he would be driving.

This morning my wife cautioned me about the snow on my car (which I was already planning on removing) saying that a friend just yesterday had snow from her car roof or car hood, fly off and crack her windshield.

When my now-DH and I were dating, he jumped in his frost-covered car to drive over to pick me up to go to school. He cleared a spot not much bigger than a football to see out of, turned on the defroster, and started out. He was fine until a school bus stopped right in front of him. Oops.

Learn something new every day. ;) Having only seen it on TV, I didn't know that you were supposed to clear the snow off the roof (makes sense, and thank-you all for telling the consequences). They don't usually clear the roof on TV even when they do scrape the windows.

I can tell you I have never cleared a car of snow and I never shall! I have never driven.

Sue

I admit that I have driven at low speeds with snow on the roof, but if I am going to be going above 30 mph, the snow gets pushed off.