No ice on my car tomorrow!

[AllenM]

Salt= Rust and as we all know "rust never sleeps"

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[rhinoabe]

I have two 3 1/2 car garages and my car ,2 trucks , tractor and backhoe set out because they are full of my junk. The wife has just barely enough room for her jeep.

 

[bradmedic04]

You guys are all doing it wrong. I drove my car off a cliff, and now I don't worry about whether it's icy.

 

[rhinoabe]

And my nephew ran a stoplight in Cincinnati yesterday , so he wont have to scrape ice.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

No snow, no ice. Car was a comfy 54 degress F in the garage.

This reminds me. Do some people not park their cars in the garage because they use the garage as living space?

When I bought my house back in '97 my secretary asked if I was going to convert it into a living room. I thought she was joking. But do some people do this???

You guys are all doing it wrong. I drove my car off a cliff, and now I don't worry about whether it's icy.

*checks INGO handbook* Well, that IS the correct way to do it.

 

[Tactically Fat]

No snow, no ice. Car was a comfy 54 degress F in the garage.

This reminds me. Do some people not park their cars in the garage because they use the garage as living space?

When I bought my house back in '97 my secretary asked if I was going to convert it into a living room. I thought she was joking. But do some people do this???



*checks INGO handbook* Well, that IS the correct way to do it.

You really don't get out much, do you?

Drive around 40's, 50's, and 60's era 'hoods and you'll see myriad houses that USED to have a garage. That era they were generally all 1-car.

My front 2-car garage easily accommodates both our Sedona and our Altima. Plus a bunch of "yard tools" and kids' crap.

The back 3-car garage is where all our crap goes.

 

[findingZzero]

I park my car outside due to strange driveway configuration. With the ice coming down, I need it to be ready to go in the morning.

i poured 10# of ice-melt salt on my car, concentrating on the metal panels that felt the coldest to me. Fortune favors the prepared

Is there any paint left this morn?

 

[JollyMon]

There was no ice on my car this morning..... and I didnt do anything to prepare.... I think the weather people played up the storm for Hamilton county.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Ok, I admit it, this was a joke post. I did put some on our driveway since the slope can be hard to walk on

 

[HoughMade]

Parking in the garage is soft.

Truck has a roof, to keep snow off the seat, less than 2" of clearance on either side to get through the garage door and does not leave room for the tractor and motorcycle if it's in there, neither of which have a roof. Priorities!

I have the grit to brave a 50 foot trip out to the truck and brush off the snow. Ice? Who would willingly live somewhere where ice is a regular occurrence rather than snow? Seems like crazy talk.

 

[PistolBob]

I love my garage.

 

[Leo]

Garages do reflect the signs of the times. In the 30's and 40's people built garages to hold the single car they owned and parked next to the house. These were really pretty minimal in size.

In the late 60's and 70's, before socialism collapsed our economy, homes were built around a spacious (like 25 x 25 ft) two car garage designed to hold a couple of Chrysler or an Oldsmobile sized cars, and the plentiful sidewalk bikes and toys we were able to provide for our children through normal prosperity and normal work. Those who were especially gifted in income generation had far more.

By the 2000's, prosperity was eaten up to keep funding the socialist welfare state and homes and garages shrank. Most newer construction homes have a 16' garage door, and you pay tax based on a two car garage, but you really do not have a 2 car garage. Sure, if you have some little 1/2 sized economy cars, you might squeeze two in, but if you have normal cars, IF you can get them in, there is not enough room to open the car doors to get out, even if vehicles are all that you keep in your garage.

I live in a little better neighborhood that has 3000 + square foot homes, and few of them have garages that can reasonably accomodate two full sized cars. The garages are a lot like our government leadership, they look like they should do the job, but they really come up short.

 

[Brandon]

2 of our 4 are in the garage.. Only have a 2 car garage.

 

[eldirector]

All 4 cars in the garage. Bring it on!

 

[ghuns]

Garages do reflect the signs of the times. In the 30's and 40's people built garages to hold the single car they owned and parked next to the house. These were really pretty minimal in size.

In the late 60's and 70's, before socialism collapsed our economy, homes were built around a spacious (like 25 x 25 ft) two car garage designed to hold a couple of Chrysler or an Oldsmobile sized cars, and the plentiful sidewalk bikes and toys we were able to provide for our children through normal prosperity through normal work.

By the 2000's, prosperity was eaten up to keep funding the socialist welfare state and homes and garages shrank. Most newer construction homes have a 16' garage door, and you pay tax based on a two car garage, but you really do not have a 2 car garage. Sure, if you have some little 1/2 sized economy cars, you might squeeze two in, but if you have normal cars, IF you can get them in, there is not enough room to open the car doors to get out, even if vehicles are all that you keep in your garage.

I live in a little better neighborhood that has 3000 + square foot homes, and few of them have garages that can accomodate two full sized cars. The garages are a lot like our government leadership, they look like they should do the job, but they really come up short.

When my grandpa was in his early 80s, he decided it was time to have a garage added to the house he built in 1942 and stop shoveling coal into the furnace. His plan, a single car garage, a cheap LP furnace, and no central air.

My dad lost his she-it. Grandpa didn't understand why my dad was pissed. My dad, with tact and sensitivity, explained it like this to grandpa, look old man, you are not long for this world and I am gonna have to sell this place to some poor schmuck when you are dead. It's gonna have a 2 garage, it's gonna have a Lennox pulse furnace and it's definitely gonna have central air.

Grandpa saw the logic in this. He had a 26x32 garage built. All insulated and drywalled. It has a single 16 foot door, but plenty of room on either side and in front of any parked car.

Since I ended up being the poor schmuck who bought the place, I'm glad my dad talked some sense into him.

 

[Leo]

Since I ended up being the poor schmuck who bought the place, I'm glad my dad talked some sense into him.

^5

 

[hornadylnl]

2 car attached garage and a 50x80 pole barn. Plenty of room for my 2 cars, truck, tractor, gator, and motorcycle.

 

[WebSnyper]

Is there any paint left this morn?

That's what I was wondering...

Ok, I admit it, this was a joke post. I did put some on our driveway since the slope can be hard to walk on

Ok, glad to see that you didn't have a salt encrusted mess.

 

[TB1999]

Will scrape for food.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I saw someone with one of these on their car at work today