http://www.gauntlet.net/audi/genevaice9.jpg
http://www.gauntlet.net/audi/genevaice8.jpg
Now that is an ice storm…
It will melt! no biggie!
I was in an ice storm.
Montreal, 1998!!
I remember that one all too well!!!
I remember we had one in 1995 and me and some friends played hockey. On the street. On skates. It was awesome.
And what if it doesn’t for a while? It’s not expected to be above freezing there for a week!
Those pics remind me of two things:
One was covered in the NY Times. THere was a water main break on the upper west side of Manahattan. It was mid 30’s during the day and that night it dropped into the teens without taking the windchill into consideration. Busy street + water main break + constant splashing on parked cars + freezing temps = exactly what the pics above are showing. It looked fake at first but it was definitely real.
Second instance was down town Northport, NY (where i grew up.) Waves in the harbor were crashing over the dock and parking area during a bad winter storm. Same thing - freezing temps and everything within reach of those waves and water became a popsicle over night.
Crazy stuff.
where is that ice storm?
I think that has happened before there…or those are old pics. Looks familiar.
the A3 guy that ny07RS4 got impatient and tried to thaw/chip his car free. He ended up doing $7,300 in damage to the car. Then he traded it in on an Infiniti.
The storm in Montreal … people got impatirent as well.
The 2 most popular things that happened were
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Busted windows from over agressivly chipping away at the ice. slamming your snow brush on the hood trunk is 1 thing but once you get on the windshield… guess what!
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Trying to drive away witht he wheels LOCKED in like 4 inches of ice thinking it will break free. POP!!
What a bunch or morans!!! (not a typo)
From my friend’s facebook album who took the pictures and uploaded them on Sunday (i.e. recent) responding to a comment:
“it wasn’t an ice storm, it was an insanely strong wind combined with insanely low temperatures (-25 windchill, whatever that converts into in your land), which blew water from the lake onto whatever happened to be along the water’s edge.”
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I remember we had one in 1995 and me and some friends played hockey. On the street. On skates. It was awesome.
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Isn’t this a daily activity for Canadians?
Says the guy who lives at the same latitude as me.
happens a lot apparently
2005
http://www.pbase.com/image/39174540
http://i.pbase.com/u17/scherrer/large/39174540.DSCF7002_w.jpg
2010
http://www.thetwentyfirstfloor.com/?p=1456
http://www.thetwentyfirstfloor.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/frozen-car.jpg
2012
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/06/photos-europes-deep-freeze/
http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/jeffisgr8t-1152410.jpg?w=940
Lesson learned? If it’s cold and windy, don’t park there 
Imagine the work all this is doing on the poor suspension!!!
HAHAHAHA Awesome!
Saki knows!!!
In all seriousness, what damage can the ice really do without any interaction? I’m guessing extra extra load from the ice would put a lot of extra stress on the suspension but shouldn’t break it, right?
Obviously best choice would be just to leave it till it “unfreezes”
If this was NYC though, all those cars that became victims would get parking tickets…