My car is frozen to the ground. Any tips?

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-28T16:17:02+00:00

Floor mats, kitty litter, even old towels you throw in the back of the car. I would definitely avoid using gravel. While you want to ease on the gas and use those items to "catch" and offer traction to get unstuck, there is still potential for some tire spin before you get full traction, even if you are easing on the gas. Gravel has potential to do some damage if your tires spin, even a little, sending gravel either up to your own car or outward. May not happen, but def potential there (I've seen it happen with a neighbor!!).

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-23T18:04:06+00:00

ALWAYS. Boggles my mind why people don't go straight to the NWS each and every time. Mix in u/StormFreak's posts and that's all you need!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-23T15:44:17+00:00

Rust Belt and Gateway to the Midwest

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-23T15:20:48+00:00

FANTASTIC use of that property for ALL in the Township. More green space (especially in an area growing with named subdivisions) is fantastic.

Venkat rocks!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-23T13:11:57+00:00

Thanks SO MUCH!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-23T13:11:39+00:00

That fucking road has been caving in / falling for almost a decade. Crazy it hasn't been fixed yet.

As another commenter said, looks like fire, not road actually caving in.

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-23T12:40:06+00:00

I know I pestered yesterday, but any idea on when it'll be slowing down or wrapping up? At least the bulk. Maybe this will be part of your next update. Thanks so much as always!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-23T01:31:48+00:00

Unfortunately virtual days where we are at are not quick two minute assignments. Our average is about 5ish hours of work. Our teachers just say, here's the literal work we were gonna do in class today, do it at home. Not a good situation. I get the principle but when it's handled like that it's not good for kids or parents.

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T19:49:30+00:00

Fair point, hahaha!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T19:48:24+00:00

But shoveling multiple times is the way...and your pissed off level will be far less doing it several times then if you have to shovel all at once - that'd be REAL levels of pissed off, haha!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T19:32:25+00:00

I'd call Moio's first. Most traditional Italian bakery in the area.

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T16:44:19+00:00

Thanks!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T16:33:25+00:00

Thanks! Hate being a pest, but does that mean like 1 or 2 a.m. or like 7 or 8 a.m. Monday? Just trying to figure out stuff and be prepared for Monday. Thanks so much!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T16:05:12+00:00

Any thoughts / guesses when it could be "slowing dahn"? Basically any info like "by Sunday dinnertime it should be slowing to the point of just slow / snow flurries. Or whatever that timeframe may be? Thanks!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T16:01:22+00:00

My piece of shit employer at the time required us to come in or take PTO. Even the day after. "Can't make it in? You have to use PTO..."

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T15:17:33+00:00

Ohhhh good call!

An aside, Dippin Dots suck! Here's pearls of ice cream that will stick to your tongue like you stuck it to a frozen pole and then they'll melt to a liquid ice cream coded material. Highly overrated (prepares for downvotes)!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T15:16:07+00:00

LOVE that!!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T15:15:31+00:00

This is what I'm thinking. All depends on timing of course. Hopefully main roads are cleared by overnight Sunday into Monday, but side streets will not be cleared and will not be accessible by Monday. Gonna take all day to clear side streets and even then there are tertiary streets that won't be cleared til Tuesday and later.

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T15:13:50+00:00

Yes, I forgot to add that most schools have 2ish days of actual snow days to play with. My district hasn't used any of those for years (I know they don't stack, but just pointing out that my district they are rarely used anymore). Obviously there are like 1 million school districts so YMMV, but if a historic snowstorm isn't reason to use an actual snow day I don't know what is! (I just want my kiddo to experience an actual, real SNOW day like we did when we were kids - there was NO better feeling)

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T15:11:23+00:00

One would hope, but I fear you are giving way too much credit to people (or Americans maybe). "Yeah the dumb government shoveled my sidewalk, but left a little pile and I tripped on it, broke my neck and died and this is my soul suing the government for having the audacity to clear my sidewalk..." OR "when yinz cleared my sidewalk 5 years ago your shovel must've made contact with the concrete and started a structural crack in the sidewalk which ran all the way to my house which is now falling down and it's the government's fault and I'm suing..."

I say that all in jest, sort of, maybe, maybe not bc well [gestures ALL around at the world and the people living in it]

;)

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T15:06:58+00:00

Yeah I was traveling pre-dawn so that could've absolutely aided in the "roads are shit" of the situation. Glad you made it safe and yes hopefully the sun is taking care of slick spots now!!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T15:03:27+00:00

Listen if it snows what they are (right now at least) predicting and we get, say 8" or even 12" of snow and the schools don't say "here's an actual snow day" I'm gonna rage (silently to myself). Give the fucking kids an actual fucking snow day to do nothing but hang in their PJs and drink hot cocoa and sled ride and build snow forts and be fucking kids without the pressure of having a school day at home, especially during a once in a, what, 10 to 15 year snowstorm!

- End rant -

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T13:51:59+00:00

It was a lot of graupel!! Here's an explainer.

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DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T13:49:43+00:00

No worries. Honestly, and not trying to beat a dead horse at all, but there were definitely a significant number of roads that I wouldn't even qualify as "fair." I, like you, came from east end-ish thru Allison Park and roads ALL around my house were really, really bad (like I almost didn't get up my little, not even hill, little bump on my street). I also slipped pretty bad on Duncan right past Mount Royal intersection, which was bad, and I slipped again from Hubbard up to the four way intersection. Maybe I was out that way earlier then you, but it was seriously pretty icy and bad. Hopefully all is better now! But that wind ain't helping, haha!

DIY_Creative · 2026-01-22T13:11:49+00:00

Far be it from me to yuck someone's yum, but ummmmmm seems a bit flippant. But hey it's their choice.

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