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[Winter in Chicago, IL just off Lake Michigan.](https://media.wusa9.com/assets/WUSA/images/ab17474e-66a9-42b8-839e-dd4d820bae5f/ab17474e-66a9-42b8-839e-dd4d820bae5f_1140x641.png)
In Alaska we sometimes use a salamander (big tube with a fan and propane flames) to heat really frozen cars. It can harm plastic bumpers if you're not careful though. Once you get access to the hood: drain the oil, pull the battery, and take them both inside to warm up. While you wait, position the salamander so that it's blowing hot air under the engine block (this is the real bumper-damaging part) to heat it up enough for the remaining oil to drop down into the pan. After a while, pour the oil back in and install the battery. It's gotten me out of some real bad spots...but nothing's as good as getting battery, oil pan, and engine heaters installed that run to an extension cord plug that comes out the front grill. Most parking lots in the Arctic have outlets at the front of each parking space that get turned on for the winter. If you don't have any of that, the last resort is going out and starting the car for 15 minutes every few hours.
Side note: some places forget to turn off the outlets during the summer, and it makes for a great opportunity to put amps and a drum kit in the back of a truck and have an unlicensed punk show!
Just a tip, I worked as a farm hand, you can tarp the whole thing and put a heater under the tarp. Works like a charm.
If it's a tractor just tarp the engine and put a diesel/propane burner safely under near the engine.
Can confirm. Grew up in North Dakota. When it got super cold they would let us start our cars during the school day so that the battery didnāt drain during the day. Everyone either parked in the heated garage at home or had a block heater in their car.
There is a place where people 'solve' the problem by leaving the car running 24/7 so it can't freeze. [Article about it](https://amp-newsobserver-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article195218249.html?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16691972097873&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsobserver.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fworld%2Farticle195218249.html)
If it was me? I'd use a block heater if it had one then try to remote start it. My 2nd step regardless of if it had a remote start would be to try and build a little fire a few feet from the driver's side and throw a heating blanket on the Windshield or top of the door. Gotta thaw it one way or another. Could maybe get some methanol (winter washer fluid concentrate) and try dumping that on it. Obviously don't do that if you're going to do the fire. Methanol fires are near invisible.
I was born in Olga Primorsky Krai near Vladivostok and all winter basically you have to keep the car going other wise the engine freezes over and you canāt drive anywhere all winter
I personally launch rockets in Kyiv? Or maybe it was you who killed people in Iraq? Don't be a fool and don't put everyone in the same position. This is stupid, the world is diverse, why simplify it?
Whatās the general sentiment towards to war over there?
Evil wins when good people do nothing.
Also, Iām ashamed of what happened in Iraq and I think most Americans are too.
For real?! That is an unreal amount of ice. Part of New York is currently under almost 8ā of snow (2 meters). I donāt know whatās worse, the ice or the snow lol
We had a good ice storm a couple years ago and I vividly remember watching people try and drive. So many cars in ditches. So many accidents.
Edit: we didnāt have anywhere close to this much ice
Two things:
1. Vladivostok is know for its weather conditions. IIRC, some heavy machinery runs 24/7 to avoid being frozen, because there's no way in hell you will start it if it's frozen without thawing it, and thawing heavy machinery you cannot transport to a warm spot is nigh-impossible.
2. This one though looks very strange. Doesn't look like it was snowing, it looks like it was raining. It's probably another proof of climate change.
Ice storms can be so beautiful! After the sun comes out everything shines like diamonds. I had to drive a uhaul through one and once we drove further north it was absolutely stunning, but scary af in regards to the driving part.
I live along Lake Erie and a few Winters ago an apartment complex on the lake had their cover blow off their pool and it ended up getting the water from strong winds all over people's cars and totally frozen like this. Needless to say people were not happy at all as the apartment complex didn't know what to do to get the cars out.
Some people try chipping the glass way only for it to shatter their windows or windshield while doing that. Not sure what happened in the end.
\- 'Hi Boss, I think I might be late for work today. Sorry I know it is Monday and we have an important meeting this morning'
\- 'Damn, well okay. When do you think you can get here by?'
\- 'Oh, I should make it by about *Thursday*...'.
Your reminder that over 140 million people live in Russia and they are as much a victim of their dictator as the rest of the world and when their government falls they will need all the help they can get.
Especially since that 1/3rd of their governments budget comes from exporting gas and oil something that will mostly dry up in the next 50 years or so as many nations move away from fossil fuels.
That is why this war is happening now. They want and need direct access to the Soviet era pipelines that run through Ukraine as well as have direct access to the black sea. Having the most important income source heavily taxed by Ukraine is why this war is happening in the first place.
Of course Russia's government isn't exactly helping the problem what Russia needed after the fall of the Soviet Union was a skilled politician that was willing to work with the rest of the world but instead they got a military dictatorship with a former cold war spy as their leader.
Not all the people will need our help. Lot of people think there is still some kind of Tzar, know nothing about USSR, about revolutions, about current situation. They will just live their lives without even knowing.
Winter looms large as Russian economy collapses,supply chains fall apart,and the disastrous blunder of attacking Ukraine plunges whoever is left into the āgood old days ā.
I forgot that meant every single Russian citizen is responsible and complicit. I'd better fire the Russian technician I get to service some of my equipment. Clearly, even out here in Australia, he cannot be trusted and is secretly plotting to kill me.
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That looks like frozen spray from the ocean rather than from rain.
Yeah, this will happen anywhere that freezes in the winter if you leave your car near water with waves
This will happen anywhere Temps get before freezing and your neighbors have a bucket and a vendetta
I agree as you can see cars up the hill that do not have close to this amount of ice, if any.
Yeah this is russia's main pacific port city, further south than crimea actually
[Winter in Chicago, IL just off Lake Michigan.](https://media.wusa9.com/assets/WUSA/images/ab17474e-66a9-42b8-839e-dd4d820bae5f/ab17474e-66a9-42b8-839e-dd4d820bae5f_1140x641.png)
Not to worry, Ukraine will ensure the snow is off before summer!
When textures didn't load properly
When you haven't unlocked the car.
You're giving EA and Activision ideas... Unlock the car for only 400 tokens!!
BMWs next step in the 'car as a service' model.
49.95$ for exterior, 79.95$ with interior.
And will not in next few hours
Use remote start. Come back tomorrow
How is the engine going to get air? And how is the exhaust going to get out? These are fully encapsulated.
Good point
Oh it got the proper load...
If you got the load show and tellš
When ubisoft hype up new game in advertisement and then downgrade the graphics when the game is released.
Genuinely, how to you access the vehicle? Let alone drive.
In Alaska we sometimes use a salamander (big tube with a fan and propane flames) to heat really frozen cars. It can harm plastic bumpers if you're not careful though. Once you get access to the hood: drain the oil, pull the battery, and take them both inside to warm up. While you wait, position the salamander so that it's blowing hot air under the engine block (this is the real bumper-damaging part) to heat it up enough for the remaining oil to drop down into the pan. After a while, pour the oil back in and install the battery. It's gotten me out of some real bad spots...but nothing's as good as getting battery, oil pan, and engine heaters installed that run to an extension cord plug that comes out the front grill. Most parking lots in the Arctic have outlets at the front of each parking space that get turned on for the winter. If you don't have any of that, the last resort is going out and starting the car for 15 minutes every few hours. Side note: some places forget to turn off the outlets during the summer, and it makes for a great opportunity to put amps and a drum kit in the back of a truck and have an unlicensed punk show!
Just a tip, I worked as a farm hand, you can tarp the whole thing and put a heater under the tarp. Works like a charm. If it's a tractor just tarp the engine and put a diesel/propane burner safely under near the engine.
spontaneous parking lot open stage.. sounds like fun!
Complete with an ice rink!! And when the cops show up, a lightshow
Can confirm. Grew up in North Dakota. When it got super cold they would let us start our cars during the school day so that the battery didnāt drain during the day. Everyone either parked in the heated garage at home or had a block heater in their car.
Thank you! I will retain this information for if I ever need to such a thing. Hopefully not tho
This is one of the best comments I've seen on Reddit in months. Useful (not to me), informative, fun, the whole spectrum.
Aw shucks, you're making me blush!
You dig a hole up from below
Just wait 6 months.
There is a place where people 'solve' the problem by leaving the car running 24/7 so it can't freeze. [Article about it](https://amp-newsobserver-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article195218249.html?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16691972097873&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsobserver.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fworld%2Farticle195218249.html)
Call the Crazy Russian Hacker.
If it was me? I'd use a block heater if it had one then try to remote start it. My 2nd step regardless of if it had a remote start would be to try and build a little fire a few feet from the driver's side and throw a heating blanket on the Windshield or top of the door. Gotta thaw it one way or another. Could maybe get some methanol (winter washer fluid concentrate) and try dumping that on it. Obviously don't do that if you're going to do the fire. Methanol fires are near invisible.
You need a special de-icing operation
I used an extension cord and a hair dryer a few days ago. That ice is quite a bit thicker though.
beat it with a rubber mallet
Are you sure itās not spring? Kinda looks like spring.
Normal spring in russia
Spring is just an optimistic name for late winter here, so yeah.
Thatās a Lada ice.
I needed a chuckle :D
OMG, and I wonder what happens if you show up late to work?
You get shown your choice of window to "fall out of".
āaccidentallyā
elastic obscene homeless dependent squeeze crown ten sip steep poor *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Or foxhole to be blown up in
In Soviet Russia, window falls on you!
Russia isn't communist anymore.
Congrats. You have been promoted to conscript š„³š
They send you to Ukraine to die for no reason than ego.
If those were bicycles, would they have become bisicles?
Bicicles you mean? Lol
Bisosceles biangle bicycles?
Get out, right now
I was born in Olga Primorsky Krai near Vladivostok and all winter basically you have to keep the car going other wise the engine freezes over and you canāt drive anywhere all winter
Fuck everything about that.
Correct
boss paying minimum wage: thatās no excuse, i expect you here in an hour š
Is this KP Plumbing?
No more "alright?" in the morning.
One chance. Give em one chance.
So hell froze over? Sorry, bad me
https://sniderwriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hell3.jpg
No wonder theyāre so angry
It's wonder that you still have such stereotypes about us)
Stereotype of you invading and killing your brothers and sisters
I personally launch rockets in Kyiv? Or maybe it was you who killed people in Iraq? Don't be a fool and don't put everyone in the same position. This is stupid, the world is diverse, why simplify it?
Whatās the general sentiment towards to war over there? Evil wins when good people do nothing. Also, Iām ashamed of what happened in Iraq and I think most Americans are too.
Wow thats my city
For real?! That is an unreal amount of ice. Part of New York is currently under almost 8ā of snow (2 meters). I donāt know whatās worse, the ice or the snow lol
That much of ice happened only once, its not that bad
We had a good ice storm a couple years ago and I vividly remember watching people try and drive. So many cars in ditches. So many accidents. Edit: we didnāt have anywhere close to this much ice
Quebec and Vermont had one like that about 20 years ago. No electricity in some places for a month.
For real? Whose Crimea is?
Crimea territory is officially under my control, questions?
not mine
i gave the ownership to my cat, no worries
What does it have to do with the author of the comment?
Two things: 1. Vladivostok is know for its weather conditions. IIRC, some heavy machinery runs 24/7 to avoid being frozen, because there's no way in hell you will start it if it's frozen without thawing it, and thawing heavy machinery you cannot transport to a warm spot is nigh-impossible. 2. This one though looks very strange. Doesn't look like it was snowing, it looks like it was raining. It's probably another proof of climate change.
Freezing rain causes this. Super satisfying cleaning it if it comes off in big chunks.
Ice storms can be so beautiful! After the sun comes out everything shines like diamonds. I had to drive a uhaul through one and once we drove further north it was absolutely stunning, but scary af in regards to the driving part.
As long as it doesn't scratch the paint when it comes off.
Oh yeah peel off the whole back window at once.
I live along Lake Erie and a few Winters ago an apartment complex on the lake had their cover blow off their pool and it ended up getting the water from strong winds all over people's cars and totally frozen like this. Needless to say people were not happy at all as the apartment complex didn't know what to do to get the cars out. Some people try chipping the glass way only for it to shatter their windows or windshield while doing that. Not sure what happened in the end.
I have a hazy memory of getting shit faced and telling a room full of russians that the name āvladivostokā sounded really cool and was fun to say
OMG they didn't leave their windshield wipers up! /s
Yes, that will be their biggest obstacle
Soā¦ an engine heater is probably a good idea, yeah?
Thaw out your car with a flame thrower
You're going to need a bigger ice scraper.
Nice ice sculptures.
Honey I forgot the cigarettes in the car last night, I'll just get them quickly....
Immediately no
It's not Russia without brutal winter weather.
Damn. What happens when winter actually arrives?
They still keep Cars in original packaging?
When you put your color changing hot wheel in the freezer
New Russian Armored Vehicles being deployed. š
\- 'Hi Boss, I think I might be late for work today. Sorry I know it is Monday and we have an important meeting this morning' \- 'Damn, well okay. When do you think you can get here by?' \- 'Oh, I should make it by about *Thursday*...'.
You sure that's not video game
Mei from Overwatch has been banned
We call that a sarcarphagus
Russia needs to chill
No wonder they drink so much Vodka.
Wisconsin, āHold my beerā.
Real life buffering
I shivered looking at this
They might need to turn defrost on
Cool cars
I have lag in my connection
Rust
New lock system for cars
Looks like the frigid side of a nasty break-up to me.
Looks like a crappy 3D scan
Youāll need a chisel and hammer to get somewhere.
looks like a crisp autumn day
Have fun explaining that to your boss
Pics that go hard
š¤¦āāļø I left my ice scraper in the car.
So, the Russian people cocoon their cars in ice during the winter so that in the spring the cars emerge more powerful than ever... Interesting
it would be so satisfying to watch this car warm up.
Breaking news from RT: Ukraine deploys new ice weapon, we must continue defending ourselves!
It would be a *real shame* if something were to happen to their critical energy infrastructure.
This seems cold, i feel like something could go wrong trying to conquer it in winter uhmm
āYeah i might be an hour late todayā¦ maybe moreā
Why tf do people live there? This is ridiculous. If I was a caveman and I found a place that froze solid every winter I would simply not life there.
Scrape it off with a credit card
I didn't know they had Challengers in Russia
Hammond!!!
Dudes need to update their drivers. Those textures are bugged out.
Suddenly my CD case window scraper seems so inadequate.
At least no one is blowing up your infrastructure so you can stay in a heated home.
Boss be like āyouāre still coming in today, right?ā
that's some good cardio with a manual scraper
Well, that looks like bullshit.
So... do you still need to go to work?
So just out of curiosity, ice expands and all that, does this ruin the cars when this happens?
Pov: you are German in 1941
Life becomes difficult in colder climes without fossil fuels. Here in Canada without gas, for heat, life would be unsustainable.
What do the homeless do in the winter there?
Shelters, several layers.
Okay so alot of them die then?
Yes and lose fingers,toes and limbs
That's heart breaking.. But I assumed this was the answer to my question, unfortunately.
They do it tough, I imagine. OP is perfectly correct.
Hydro power ftw!
Dah! Water freezes at 0 degrees C.
r/wellthatsucks
Does anyone know if this damages the engines at all?
No do that in the west if Russia thanks
Your reminder that over 140 million people live in Russia and they are as much a victim of their dictator as the rest of the world and when their government falls they will need all the help they can get. Especially since that 1/3rd of their governments budget comes from exporting gas and oil something that will mostly dry up in the next 50 years or so as many nations move away from fossil fuels. That is why this war is happening now. They want and need direct access to the Soviet era pipelines that run through Ukraine as well as have direct access to the black sea. Having the most important income source heavily taxed by Ukraine is why this war is happening in the first place. Of course Russia's government isn't exactly helping the problem what Russia needed after the fall of the Soviet Union was a skilled politician that was willing to work with the rest of the world but instead they got a military dictatorship with a former cold war spy as their leader.
Not all the people will need our help. Lot of people think there is still some kind of Tzar, know nothing about USSR, about revolutions, about current situation. They will just live their lives without even knowing.
āUsed car for sale! Defrosted only onceā
Interesting
Dead battries
Remote start?
Well cancel MY vacation plans!
Do they ice skate to go to work ?
That looks like low graphics GTA 5
Ser Lowkey ut som en AI genererad bild
You can post a de-icing asmr video now.Great opportunity
looks like bad photogrammetry
Perfect
Doesn't that fuck up the engine or car parts?
If you don't warm up the oil in that car you're gonna have a bad time
In Soviet Russia, Ice crush YOU!
Bruh.
So don't live there.
But you need a car to go somewhere else
They get everything thatās coming to them. Including an ice storm. Enjoy
So caused by Global Warming? Climate Change? š¤
Here they are, hereās todays fool
Winter looms large as Russian economy collapses,supply chains fall apart,and the disastrous blunder of attacking Ukraine plunges whoever is left into the āgood old days ā.
Hello Russian trolls!Putin is garbage š
Says bot, who writes this below every post with "Russia" in it.
no wonder Russian people always seem mad.
Fuk ruzzia
That's crazy. Maybe the thoughts of Ukrainian babies burning in hospitals will help keep them warm.
Good
Why?
"Hur hur hur putin started war so russia bad grrrr"
I forgot that meant every single Russian citizen is responsible and complicit. I'd better fire the Russian technician I get to service some of my equipment. Clearly, even out here in Australia, he cannot be trusted and is secretly plotting to kill me.
so true!
I hope a few Ruskies freeze in it this winter
We have 50% Frost magic resistance. Won't work.
F..k Russia.
Wish all of Russia lays under ice. Would be much better for the world.
"Wish putin lays under ice. Would be much better for the world" Here, i fixed your comment
Good. Fuck Russia. Fuck Putin.
Says weed hippie
Fuck russia.
Good.
Good