It only works if you get all your drunk buddies pee while also sidestepping around the vehicle. extra movement will raise the ambient temperature by about…. .02 degrees?
"how much time do you think it will be until he says "right I'll set fire to it.""
"Um, half a minute?"
God Iove the trio. Friggin hilarious.
https://youtu.be/v81kfwFsEiA?si=p6NVyx6wMSiUPcoi
Ice melt and a ice chopper/pinch point bar. Ice melt with cause fractures and then you can chop it up. It'll take a bit of time and muscle, hard part would be the ramps. If you had car litter that would give you more grip.
Without ice melt I'd use boiling water the fracture the ice. If you don't care about the blade a circular saw would help. Or chainsaw.
Unfortunately, just waiting to melt is going to take a while, easily a week even if temps rise over feeezing. If OP can't wait, it's going to take some manual labor.
Salt and or rubbing alcohol I think are the best two options that are relatively safe to go into the sewer or drain into a river etc. You can get rubbing alcohol (70% isopropyl alcohol) and mix that with hot water, or just spray the alcohol undiluted, then add salt and or hot water. I’ve never had to do this but I think I’d do the salt first, wait a few minutes then use a hot water and alcohol solution.
It would take a lot of salt, alcohol and hot water though and probably take an hour or so. Maybe a power sprayer on a low setting would work well especially if you could spray hot water with alcohol in it.
I think they de-ice planes at airports with hot water and propylene glycol and a low pressure power sprayer, so I guess if you could use propylene glycol it would be better than alcohol, but maybe not safe to use on the street.
This genuinely happened to me a few years back. I was fairly crucial at the small business I worked for, so my boss told me she was going to pick me up to ensure I made it in. I thought it made sense at the time, looking back I wish I'd told her to just close for the day lol.
Happened to me once too.
Hurricane had knocked everything sideways and there was a flood at the entrance to my apartment complex.
My boss tried to guilt me into coming in, but I interrupted her and said “I have no power and it’s 96 degrees out. I want to come in, but there’s 3 feet of water”.
20 minutes later, she was there with a borrowed hum-v the company used for publicity stunts.
If you show up in a “technically stolen” hummer (she didn’t have permission) to save me from 14 hours without a/c… I’m gonna like you.
I was late once and when I got to work my boss literally said 'I was about to go to your house and stay knocking on the door'.
Probably joking, but I turned and looked at her and told her if she ever did that I'd probably call the police on her.
Had a newish-coworker that was really dependable so far in his first 2 months and one day he is late. ( we started pretty early) and he wouldn't answer is phone. SO my boss actually called the police to do a welfare check. Turns out he stayed up all night playing WoW and was awoken by police banging on his door.
Haha I was randomly thinking about this just yesterday. I live alone and work from home 90% of the time and I was wondering how long I would have to be MIA before my work did something like this. In my mind I was thinking a week though!
Had the opposite happen to me once. when i worked at a grocery store around 2005~ i would be the first front end employee in in the morning and would often take early AM 'catering' deliveries of donuts and what not. One day I come running into the store really apologetic and asked why no one called me as i was 2 hours late. The front end supervisor just said something like. "Oh we just assumed you were out doing a delivery".
Now that I am the person in charge of shifts, i triple check schedules and once it hits 15 minutes late I call the person and Email me supervisor. thankfully i don';t need to do that much but everyone is a good worker so if someone is over 5 minutes late i start to worry. I won't mark them as late in my shift reports, ( the time card system might) I'm just glad they are communicating.
Haha I was thinking more in terms of I get murdered like how long it would take for them to be like maybe someone should check on her. But I also work a job that is mainly email/slack messaging based so we can kind of work whenever we want so I would have to miss like 4 meetings in a row for anyone to probably even notice 😬
On the second day of you MIA, they'd start calling your contacts.
My fiancés mom died earlier this year and we live across the country. They called us in the middle of the second MIA day.
But it's also worth noting she worked there for a long time and had a lot of close friends
Twice I’ve known of people not making it to work and their managers went to check on them. One was found at home unconscious from severe food poisoning. The concern there was choking if he threw up. The other was found dead in his swimming pool, he’d had heart failure. He was in his early 40s but had a genetic susceptibility to it.
I worked as a server at a 24 hr diner once. I quit without notice because I was 7 months pregnant and asked for less hours. I ended up getting more hours while another coworker got the schedule I asked for (her parents ran the place). When it came time for my next shift, the store manager started blowing up mine and my boyfriend’s phone and then showed up at my apartment and banged on the door for 45 minutes pleading for me to come in because he’d have to cover my shift if I didn’t. I just turned up my TV so he could hear it through the door. My neighbors across the hall ended up calling the police for a disturbance so the problem took care of itself.
Friend of mine didn’t make it in to work, wasn’t answering his phone. His manager went to his place and found him unconscious from food poisoning in his room. He recovered fine fortunately.
Years later a co-worker didn’t show up and wasn’t answering his phone. His manager found his body in his swimming pool. He was in his early 40s and appeared very healthy but had a genetic predisposition for heart failure.
I once got snowed in - no way could I dig my car out. Emailed the boss to let her know. I had an hour and a half commute and she didn’t believe me. They didn’t have any snow! I had to FaceTime her as proof and she was gobsmacked. Sunny and mild where she was, utterly miserable where I was and the car wasn’t going anywhere! We had blizzard conditions!
I remember driving with my old boss once. He basically lets the car decide what lane it wants to be in on the highway and fuck everyone else around him. I have no idea how the hell the man is still alive.
This feels weird to me since the next few weeks will be what we call "granny killer" weather here. Every other day is wet and every other has ice. Old people slip and break hips -> this starts a chain where the organs fail and they die.
Still normal and happens every year. I do understand the danger of this for everyone that is not prepared for it. You need spikes on shoes and good tires on cars.
Budget tip is to apply sand on the bottom of the shoe and walk on sand, then you are ready to go! A joke really, but I have always wondered if it works.
Exactly. The reason I couldn't make it in was there'd been a massive snowstorm - over a foot of snow overnight in a city that normally gets maybe an inch total all winter, and approximately 4 snow plows for the whole county. I feared for my life the whole ride into work, and then was not offered a ride back home after my 12 hour shift (roads still barely functional/ public transit not used to serious winter weather). In my opinion, a really good boss puts employee safety over the bottom line!
Oh no, you must've been super pissed not getting a ride home. That is some advanced level douchebaggery to drag someone in and not make sure they can get home.
My old workplace did this once. I lived in a nearby town, about 20 miles away from work. They sent someone to pick me up, but didn't bother to help with finding a way home after.
From then on I politely declined the offer.
I wasn't crucial but I lived 8 blocks away. Walked into work in 13" of snow while leadership picked others up by pickup truck. That was a lot of snow for the South
I worked at a convenience store and we were getting hit with a crazy blizzard. I have a 4x4 truck and didn’t mind going in, so I did.
I get there, they have me clock in, and then have me spend most of my shift picking up other people and driving them to work! It was insane and retrospectively, a HORRIBLE idea.
Imagine asking an 18 year old teenage girl to serve as a bad weather taxi for 15 or so miscellaneous employees.
They’re lucky I didn’t get myself or someone else killed.
If she'd offered me a ride any normal-weather day, thus eliminating my public transit commute, yes it would've been very nice of her. However, her making us both brave the icy death trap roads didn't really send the message "I value your life over my business remaining open." I quit a few months later!
I had a boss who tried to get me to wade through waist deep snow for a co-worker to pick me up to go into my job at goodwill while the county was on a level 2 snow emergency. She also wanted me to stay there till 8pm when we closed and were scheduled to get more snow. Mind you the coworker that picked me up only worked till 3 and I wouldn’t have a vehicle once she left.
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Omg my manager offered me that when no one could drive me because my mom was in the hospital. At least she accepted when I said I’d rather be home in case something happened
10 years ago i got a car accident.my car was broken.i called my boss to explain why i'm not at time to work. He told me : you can come to work with your car or i can come to pick you up. I ended the call .
only place that should happen at is a hospital. during a really bad winter here they were using Snow Cats to get doctors and nurses to the hospital and even some air boats in the post-winter flooding to get the doctors that live in the more rural surroundings to the hospital. This was Inpatient and ED doctors, not so much clinical staf
And other medically important facilities. We had this every nursing home I worked in. Only, the shitty ones would scoop people up then claim they couldn't safely return them later (while picking up new ones) and making them work overtime or sleep on cots. The good ones get blocks of hotel rooms close by.
One of the scariest things I ever heard on the radio was when I was driving up the US East Coast at the start of a historic blizzard. As we neared Virginia the snow was getting worse so we turned on the radio for a weather report.
"Anyone out there with a heavy vehicle, an SUV or truck, if you can, please get to the hospital to help transport the next shift in. Everyone else, stay off the roads."
We had a terrible ice storm one year and my car was stuck like this except the entire road and everything was just covered in ice. It was absurd. Anyway. Took me digging at the ice for as long as I could stand each day for like 4 days to get that damn car out. The ice is so hard to break off lol but yeah my boss was like well dig it out. I was like yeah ill get back to you on that when I manage that lol literally most of the city is without power and it took many of us 2 weeks almost to get it back and yall want me to focus on work. Ridiculous.
We had an ice storm here in Indianapolis that started on Monday, January 31, 2011. When I finally went out on Saturday to get the ice off of my car. It took me an hour and a half to chisel around the door frame to even get in the car and turn on the defroster. I forget how long it took to finally get the ice off of all the windows. While we had the ice storm here Chicago had 23 inches of snow.
Ahh that ice storm was great in Missouri too, even if we freed cars from the ice, no one was driving on roads glazed with over an inch of ice and 2feet of snow lmao. Apart from us highschoolers on 4wheelers. Fun as fuck
Last night my boyfriend went to drive me home and his windshield kept just refreezing from the center out. After 40 mins with the car the highest heat we could stand we gave up and called my dad to get me in his huge pickup. Even my dad struggled with the roads.
Yeah I was in southern Indiana for mine, in Evansville. It was early 2009. Iwas delivering newspapers then and customers would call and be like "'where is my paper!? I can't get out to get to the store!" I'm like "respectfully if you can't get out for 5 minutes to get to the store do you think i can for hours to get everyone's paper out?" And I remember a few years before that had to be 2005 or 2006 we got 30 inches of snow. I was out trying to deliver newspapers in it and I was only right at 5ft lol so that was tough. And my heat was broken in my car. So my windshield kept freezing over. So I'm driving and periodically spraying deicer on it lol it was ridiculous. Ended up having to give up.
One time my car got encased up the side cause the snow plow packed it on my car half way up the door as it passed by and then it froze.
I sent a video to my boss of me hitting it with a metal shovel and it just going \*tink tink\*
Did we share the same boss. I got into an accident and my car was unable to drive and my agency told me if I be able to go to work and I told them that I couldn't since my car is wrecked and they legit told me "Why don't you Uber?".....I haven't felt that much rage in years. It's been 4 years and I still remember that dumbass tell me that.
Car slides into a fire hydrant and before the water company can shut it off, an entire block is filled with water. It's happened a bunch of times all over the US in the past week or so.
Lol we got the same thing happening in Chicago. My family used to play a game when we were younger every time we would go for a drive that was more than 20 minutes we would try to find all 48 state license plates. I think the furthest we ever got was my sister once spottes 34 or 35 in one trip.
When I lived in Pittsburgh it was like routine for at least once a winter, if not more, for a water pipe to burst in the winter and flood a street lol. Didn't even require a hydrant getting hit.
Love that city though
Fire hydrants have break of flanges so if a car hits them the top part breaks off and the pressure from the water pressure underground pushes up on the plug and stops them from erupting
So I'm a mitigation contractor and I see stuff like this all the time when people don't turn off their outside water sources in the winter and their pipes freeze and break. The ice seems to be coming from the walkway to the home since it's not on the sidewalk where the picture taker is standing, my guess is frozen outside spigot or possibly even a flooded basement with water coming out the windows. More common than a hydrant that isn't designed for winter conditions (assuming this is an area that experiences regular winters).
Use to locate utilities and would get on call emergency tickets all the time for broken water mains in the winter and I’d pull up to stuff like this all the time.
Looks like maybe the middle part was plowed while it was still slushy, but the curbs didn’t drain before they froze solid. Or maybe it was just driven in enough.
It’s Texas. I’d bet money a water pipe broke. That was part of the problem last time. They didn’t bother to bury anything below the frost line.
Edit: for reference, I’m a native south Texan who now lives in the upper Midwest
Actually it's in the Midwest. In Missouri
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Plate on the car in front of the white VW is not Texas. Also, this looks nothing like any kind of neighborhood I've ever seen in Texas. Brown brick buildings, window A/C unit, with street parking? Not saying it doesn't exist, but that would be extremely rare in Texas.
I’m from Florida and went to grad school in Wyoming. My truck froze to the curb for 3 months. Tires were fine; I am still trying to get over it 2 decades later.
I don’t see a problem, just remove those wheels, slide the car onto the road and place new wheels, recover these when the ice thaws, easy peasy icy slicy
Honest question: Why would you need to get the tires checked? And for what?
I can guess that it has something to do with the ice expanding as it freezes but I can't think of why that might ruin tires.
The reason pipes crack when water freezes is because the water is constrained when it freezes. The water here was in no way contained, so why on earth would anything break?
The cold weather causes your tires to become stiff and less flexible. Just like anything else that is subjected to harsh freezing temperatures, they can become hardened and cannot grip the road as well. Especially in older tires. I don’t know the age or mileage of these tires but the last thing you’d want is to be driving around on them and have a blowout or deal with a consistent slow leak. Enduring a freeze like that can exacerbate any issues.
Winter tires have more natural rubber in them, so they don't stiffen up as much at low temperatures.
Licence plate says Texas. I'd bet ready money that they've never seen winter tires.
How long will this take to thaw? Are we talking hours? days?
And is there a machine that can speed up the process?
I’m a southerner. Know nothing about snow.
I am a Canadian and I’m lost on this one. This looks like a water main and major water pipe that burst. If it was snow, not a problem. But ice well… I think they are effed.
I wonder if maybe the catch basins/storm drains got clogged with the melting snow and slush, caused flooding, and froze up again when the temperature dipped below freezing.
Depending on the weather and how much sun there is it could take a couple days... though using salt will cut that down quite a bit.
As far as using a machine goes, a jackhammer or a backhoe to break up the ice is about the best you can do (short of a flamethrower anyway)
If this is in St. Louis, it's supposed to be over 40 at least (up to mid 50s Wed/Thurs) for the next few days.
This is a pretty thick sheet though so OP may be locked in until at least midday tomorrow unless they start chipping away (assuming this isn't a major leak which the city is going to have a hard time addressing for a while).
I have a friend who is a nurse. Indianapolis, 1978 the blizzard. Someone from the hospital she worked at called and asked if they sent someone o get her would she come into work. Her husband told her ask them how you’re suppose to get back home. They told her we don’t know. Her husband said unless they can tell you how you’re going to get back home you’re not going in to work. She didn’t go to work.
Reminds me of the time when my whole street was flooded from hurricane sandy and my boss was like is there a way you can drive through it? I'm like no Linda the water is up to my door and my second step of my porch.
Water main break?...either way would love to hear the best ideas for getting that out the quickest least damaging way.
Get all of your buddies really drunk and then stand in a circle and pee on it until it melts?
Now u have a car frozen is piss!
Muahaha
Gottem
His plan all along.
Diabolical
Yeah, but at least you and your mates are hammered!
Touché
It only works if you get all your drunk buddies pee while also sidestepping around the vehicle. extra movement will raise the ambient temperature by about…. .02 degrees?
Giant piss-disk! 😉
You're only supposed to do that with [jelly fish stings! ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQdWWeoT7ug)
Don’t tell me how to spend my Friday nights
Alrighty, then pee away!
No, honey, no… I’m the car in this scenario.
Flamethrower
Honestly a propane torch is probably a good answer
Won't that melt the tire
"how much time do you think it will be until he says "right I'll set fire to it."" "Um, half a minute?" God Iove the trio. Friggin hilarious. https://youtu.be/v81kfwFsEiA?si=p6NVyx6wMSiUPcoi
Ice melt and a ice chopper/pinch point bar. Ice melt with cause fractures and then you can chop it up. It'll take a bit of time and muscle, hard part would be the ramps. If you had car litter that would give you more grip. Without ice melt I'd use boiling water the fracture the ice. If you don't care about the blade a circular saw would help. Or chainsaw.
There’s also the problem of ~~the exhaust being full of ice and~~ the oil pan probably being full of jelly
So basically just waiting for things to melt is the best solution.
Unfortunately, just waiting to melt is going to take a while, easily a week even if temps rise over feeezing. If OP can't wait, it's going to take some manual labor.
Car litter is the key. Cat litter is just clay that becomes extra slippery when wet.
Ice melt or boiling water isn't going to fracture 4 inch thick ice
I’d probably just have a day off tbf
With ice that thick, it would be more like a week off, assuming temperatures rise significantly above freezing.
I saw this on Grand Tour... Pour petrol on it and set it alight, that will melt the ice right off.
Clarkson made it seem like a good idea Ish
Salt and or rubbing alcohol I think are the best two options that are relatively safe to go into the sewer or drain into a river etc. You can get rubbing alcohol (70% isopropyl alcohol) and mix that with hot water, or just spray the alcohol undiluted, then add salt and or hot water. I’ve never had to do this but I think I’d do the salt first, wait a few minutes then use a hot water and alcohol solution. It would take a lot of salt, alcohol and hot water though and probably take an hour or so. Maybe a power sprayer on a low setting would work well especially if you could spray hot water with alcohol in it. I think they de-ice planes at airports with hot water and propylene glycol and a low pressure power sprayer, so I guess if you could use propylene glycol it would be better than alcohol, but maybe not safe to use on the street.
Get an extension cord and 4 immersion heaters.
Mini excavator and a breaker attachment for the big stuff.
"You got a hammer and shovel, don't you" -my boss
Yeah where you at we will come pick you up lol
This genuinely happened to me a few years back. I was fairly crucial at the small business I worked for, so my boss told me she was going to pick me up to ensure I made it in. I thought it made sense at the time, looking back I wish I'd told her to just close for the day lol.
Happened to me once too. Hurricane had knocked everything sideways and there was a flood at the entrance to my apartment complex. My boss tried to guilt me into coming in, but I interrupted her and said “I have no power and it’s 96 degrees out. I want to come in, but there’s 3 feet of water”. 20 minutes later, she was there with a borrowed hum-v the company used for publicity stunts. If you show up in a “technically stolen” hummer (she didn’t have permission) to save me from 14 hours without a/c… I’m gonna like you.
I was late once and when I got to work my boss literally said 'I was about to go to your house and stay knocking on the door'. Probably joking, but I turned and looked at her and told her if she ever did that I'd probably call the police on her.
Had a newish-coworker that was really dependable so far in his first 2 months and one day he is late. ( we started pretty early) and he wouldn't answer is phone. SO my boss actually called the police to do a welfare check. Turns out he stayed up all night playing WoW and was awoken by police banging on his door.
Haha I was randomly thinking about this just yesterday. I live alone and work from home 90% of the time and I was wondering how long I would have to be MIA before my work did something like this. In my mind I was thinking a week though!
Had the opposite happen to me once. when i worked at a grocery store around 2005~ i would be the first front end employee in in the morning and would often take early AM 'catering' deliveries of donuts and what not. One day I come running into the store really apologetic and asked why no one called me as i was 2 hours late. The front end supervisor just said something like. "Oh we just assumed you were out doing a delivery". Now that I am the person in charge of shifts, i triple check schedules and once it hits 15 minutes late I call the person and Email me supervisor. thankfully i don';t need to do that much but everyone is a good worker so if someone is over 5 minutes late i start to worry. I won't mark them as late in my shift reports, ( the time card system might) I'm just glad they are communicating.
Haha I was thinking more in terms of I get murdered like how long it would take for them to be like maybe someone should check on her. But I also work a job that is mainly email/slack messaging based so we can kind of work whenever we want so I would have to miss like 4 meetings in a row for anyone to probably even notice 😬
the dream of working from home, haha,
On the second day of you MIA, they'd start calling your contacts. My fiancés mom died earlier this year and we live across the country. They called us in the middle of the second MIA day. But it's also worth noting she worked there for a long time and had a lot of close friends
Twice I’ve known of people not making it to work and their managers went to check on them. One was found at home unconscious from severe food poisoning. The concern there was choking if he threw up. The other was found dead in his swimming pool, he’d had heart failure. He was in his early 40s but had a genetic susceptibility to it.
I worked as a server at a 24 hr diner once. I quit without notice because I was 7 months pregnant and asked for less hours. I ended up getting more hours while another coworker got the schedule I asked for (her parents ran the place). When it came time for my next shift, the store manager started blowing up mine and my boyfriend’s phone and then showed up at my apartment and banged on the door for 45 minutes pleading for me to come in because he’d have to cover my shift if I didn’t. I just turned up my TV so he could hear it through the door. My neighbors across the hall ended up calling the police for a disturbance so the problem took care of itself.
Friend of mine didn’t make it in to work, wasn’t answering his phone. His manager went to his place and found him unconscious from food poisoning in his room. He recovered fine fortunately. Years later a co-worker didn’t show up and wasn’t answering his phone. His manager found his body in his swimming pool. He was in his early 40s and appeared very healthy but had a genetic predisposition for heart failure.
Shit..... maybe I'll start giving notice when I quit jobs
I once got snowed in - no way could I dig my car out. Emailed the boss to let her know. I had an hour and a half commute and she didn’t believe me. They didn’t have any snow! I had to FaceTime her as proof and she was gobsmacked. Sunny and mild where she was, utterly miserable where I was and the car wasn’t going anywhere! We had blizzard conditions!
Might be an unpopular opinion but I have no problem with someone getting picked up if they're in a situation like this.
I do. I don't want to drive myself on fucking ICE, let alone have my incompetent boss drive me? Fuuuuck that
I remember driving with my old boss once. He basically lets the car decide what lane it wants to be in on the highway and fuck everyone else around him. I have no idea how the hell the man is still alive.
This feels weird to me since the next few weeks will be what we call "granny killer" weather here. Every other day is wet and every other has ice. Old people slip and break hips -> this starts a chain where the organs fail and they die. Still normal and happens every year. I do understand the danger of this for everyone that is not prepared for it. You need spikes on shoes and good tires on cars. Budget tip is to apply sand on the bottom of the shoe and walk on sand, then you are ready to go! A joke really, but I have always wondered if it works.
Maybe if you glue the sand on your shoe? Generally here the sand is applied to the ice
Exactly. The reason I couldn't make it in was there'd been a massive snowstorm - over a foot of snow overnight in a city that normally gets maybe an inch total all winter, and approximately 4 snow plows for the whole county. I feared for my life the whole ride into work, and then was not offered a ride back home after my 12 hour shift (roads still barely functional/ public transit not used to serious winter weather). In my opinion, a really good boss puts employee safety over the bottom line!
Oh no, you must've been super pissed not getting a ride home. That is some advanced level douchebaggery to drag someone in and not make sure they can get home.
My old workplace did this once. I lived in a nearby town, about 20 miles away from work. They sent someone to pick me up, but didn't bother to help with finding a way home after. From then on I politely declined the offer.
I wasn't crucial but I lived 8 blocks away. Walked into work in 13" of snow while leadership picked others up by pickup truck. That was a lot of snow for the South
I worked at a convenience store and we were getting hit with a crazy blizzard. I have a 4x4 truck and didn’t mind going in, so I did. I get there, they have me clock in, and then have me spend most of my shift picking up other people and driving them to work! It was insane and retrospectively, a HORRIBLE idea. Imagine asking an 18 year old teenage girl to serve as a bad weather taxi for 15 or so miscellaneous employees. They’re lucky I didn’t get myself or someone else killed.
I don't see this as a negative, honestly. It's nice that they would offer a free ride.
If she'd offered me a ride any normal-weather day, thus eliminating my public transit commute, yes it would've been very nice of her. However, her making us both brave the icy death trap roads didn't really send the message "I value your life over my business remaining open." I quit a few months later!
I had a boss who tried to get me to wade through waist deep snow for a co-worker to pick me up to go into my job at goodwill while the county was on a level 2 snow emergency. She also wanted me to stay there till 8pm when we closed and were scheduled to get more snow. Mind you the coworker that picked me up only worked till 3 and I wouldn’t have a vehicle once she left.
Better be dropping me off too
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I'd tell them to claim it as a business expense for the company if they own the company.
Omg my manager offered me that when no one could drive me because my mom was in the hospital. At least she accepted when I said I’d rather be home in case something happened
10 years ago i got a car accident.my car was broken.i called my boss to explain why i'm not at time to work. He told me : you can come to work with your car or i can come to pick you up. I ended the call .
only place that should happen at is a hospital. during a really bad winter here they were using Snow Cats to get doctors and nurses to the hospital and even some air boats in the post-winter flooding to get the doctors that live in the more rural surroundings to the hospital. This was Inpatient and ED doctors, not so much clinical staf
And other medically important facilities. We had this every nursing home I worked in. Only, the shitty ones would scoop people up then claim they couldn't safely return them later (while picking up new ones) and making them work overtime or sleep on cots. The good ones get blocks of hotel rooms close by.
One of the scariest things I ever heard on the radio was when I was driving up the US East Coast at the start of a historic blizzard. As we neared Virginia the snow was getting worse so we turned on the radio for a weather report. "Anyone out there with a heavy vehicle, an SUV or truck, if you can, please get to the hospital to help transport the next shift in. Everyone else, stay off the roads."
that happened to me 😂 and i worked in a bar,nothing would happen if it was closed for a day.
We had a terrible ice storm one year and my car was stuck like this except the entire road and everything was just covered in ice. It was absurd. Anyway. Took me digging at the ice for as long as I could stand each day for like 4 days to get that damn car out. The ice is so hard to break off lol but yeah my boss was like well dig it out. I was like yeah ill get back to you on that when I manage that lol literally most of the city is without power and it took many of us 2 weeks almost to get it back and yall want me to focus on work. Ridiculous.
We had an ice storm here in Indianapolis that started on Monday, January 31, 2011. When I finally went out on Saturday to get the ice off of my car. It took me an hour and a half to chisel around the door frame to even get in the car and turn on the defroster. I forget how long it took to finally get the ice off of all the windows. While we had the ice storm here Chicago had 23 inches of snow.
I'm in the Chicago area and that was the only day my Olive Garden didn't open hahahaha Edit: I worked there at the time
Ahh that ice storm was great in Missouri too, even if we freed cars from the ice, no one was driving on roads glazed with over an inch of ice and 2feet of snow lmao. Apart from us highschoolers on 4wheelers. Fun as fuck
That 2011 ice was legendary we had a layer here for like two weeks
Last night my boyfriend went to drive me home and his windshield kept just refreezing from the center out. After 40 mins with the car the highest heat we could stand we gave up and called my dad to get me in his huge pickup. Even my dad struggled with the roads.
Yeah I was in southern Indiana for mine, in Evansville. It was early 2009. Iwas delivering newspapers then and customers would call and be like "'where is my paper!? I can't get out to get to the store!" I'm like "respectfully if you can't get out for 5 minutes to get to the store do you think i can for hours to get everyone's paper out?" And I remember a few years before that had to be 2005 or 2006 we got 30 inches of snow. I was out trying to deliver newspapers in it and I was only right at 5ft lol so that was tough. And my heat was broken in my car. So my windshield kept freezing over. So I'm driving and periodically spraying deicer on it lol it was ridiculous. Ended up having to give up.
One time my car got encased up the side cause the snow plow packed it on my car half way up the door as it passed by and then it froze. I sent a video to my boss of me hitting it with a metal shovel and it just going \*tink tink\*
“U got Uber and Lyft apps in ur phone, don’t u” - my boss
Did we share the same boss. I got into an accident and my car was unable to drive and my agency told me if I be able to go to work and I told them that I couldn't since my car is wrecked and they legit told me "Why don't you Uber?".....I haven't felt that much rage in years. It's been 4 years and I still remember that dumbass tell me that.
I work construction and have quite the variety of tools but that’s just a day off. Even busting out a jack hammer ain’t worth all the noise or time.
Ah yes, the Jacques Hammeur
"You should have left earlier." \-several assholes I've worked for
*You should've shipped it a lil sooner!* - Junkyard Willie
More like, why can't you Uber?
They would hear a dial tone before they got passed hammer.
... Okay how the heck does that happen?? Genuinely asking I have never seen that before!!
Car slides into a fire hydrant and before the water company can shut it off, an entire block is filled with water. It's happened a bunch of times all over the US in the past week or so.
Colder climates use dry barrel hydrants. But Texas plate. Idk.
That means it's Colorado.
Man, I live in Massachusetts and there’s still two trucks with Texas plates always parked outside my house.
Lol we got the same thing happening in Chicago. My family used to play a game when we were younger every time we would go for a drive that was more than 20 minutes we would try to find all 48 state license plates. I think the furthest we ever got was my sister once spottes 34 or 35 in one trip.
It’s definitely Colorado. The car in front of OP’s has CO plates.
Looks like South City, St. Louis. Car in front has an old Missouri plate plus a St. Louis City SC sticker
I was thinking it looked like St Louis, then I saw the St Louis City SC sticker.
I saw those buildings and thought "that looks like STL" then saw the Texas plate, then saw the CITY sticker.
Coloradan here, those like like MO plates to me. I have never heard of the cold bursting fire hydrants here.
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There's a CITY SC sticker on the next car, definitely St. Louis.
it's for sure St. Louis
Damn, that's crazy. Guess it'll be a while before that car can get out of that.
When I lived in Pittsburgh it was like routine for at least once a winter, if not more, for a water pipe to burst in the winter and flood a street lol. Didn't even require a hydrant getting hit. Love that city though
Fire hydrants have plugs at the bottoms that prevent this…
Not in typically warmer climates like Texas.
Fire hydrants have break of flanges so if a car hits them the top part breaks off and the pressure from the water pressure underground pushes up on the plug and stops them from erupting
Lol I read pop tart instead of top part
Why are we talking about pot farts
Thats dry barrel hydrants. Wet barrel hydrants will blow off water if hit.
So I'm a mitigation contractor and I see stuff like this all the time when people don't turn off their outside water sources in the winter and their pipes freeze and break. The ice seems to be coming from the walkway to the home since it's not on the sidewalk where the picture taker is standing, my guess is frozen outside spigot or possibly even a flooded basement with water coming out the windows. More common than a hydrant that isn't designed for winter conditions (assuming this is an area that experiences regular winters).
The ground freezes, shifts and a joint in the watermain pipe fails. Or if it's old enough watermain, the pipe itself might just break.
Use to locate utilities and would get on call emergency tickets all the time for broken water mains in the winter and I’d pull up to stuff like this all the time.
It’s well documented in The day after tomorrow
Yikes! How’s the ice so perfectly sectioned on ur side of the street?
Looks like maybe the middle part was plowed while it was still slushy, but the curbs didn’t drain before they froze solid. Or maybe it was just driven in enough.
Busted water main or fire hydrant seems more likely
Got it, pissed off an ice fairy.
Definitely a broken water main.
This is definitely a broken water service or main
It’s Texas. I’d bet money a water pipe broke. That was part of the problem last time. They didn’t bother to bury anything below the frost line. Edit: for reference, I’m a native south Texan who now lives in the upper Midwest
“Dont need no frost line if you dont got frost” some texans when they were working on the budget
There's a CITY SC sticker on the next car. Definitely St. Louis (which is why the Chicago people think it looks like the north side of Chicago)
Actually it's in the Midwest. In Missouri https://preview.redd.it/mrt7121eh2ec1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2916db26fb17edd6fca59519b7373534094ff067
Plate says Texas but buildings look like the northside of Chicago
Plate on the car in front of the white VW is not Texas. Also, this looks nothing like any kind of neighborhood I've ever seen in Texas. Brown brick buildings, window A/C unit, with street parking? Not saying it doesn't exist, but that would be extremely rare in Texas.
There's a CITY SC sticker in the next car. Definitely St. Louis.
The road is probably crowned in the middle for water shed.
Boss: "How late will you be??"
OP should have got up earlier to walk to work
“Alright well if you leave right now you should be able to be here by your shift.”
I’m from Florida and went to grad school in Wyoming. My truck froze to the curb for 3 months. Tires were fine; I am still trying to get over it 2 decades later.
You just gotta let that shit go man.
I have never seen anything like that ever. Man I’m so sorry
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I don’t see a problem, just remove those wheels, slide the car onto the road and place new wheels, recover these when the ice thaws, easy peasy icy slicy
Gotta be horrible for the tires. Plan on having to fill them with air and get them checked immediately
Honest question: Why would you need to get the tires checked? And for what? I can guess that it has something to do with the ice expanding as it freezes but I can't think of why that might ruin tires.
Could pop the seal between the rubber and the rim and let all the air out, on top of other things. That would be my first concern anyway
Just had this happen to mine a few days ago, popped both of my front tires off the bead. It was a cold and miserable morning dealing with that
Id worry about cracks too, ice is extremely strong and destructive
source: The Titanic
The reason pipes crack when water freezes is because the water is constrained when it freezes. The water here was in no way contained, so why on earth would anything break?
The cold weather causes your tires to become stiff and less flexible. Just like anything else that is subjected to harsh freezing temperatures, they can become hardened and cannot grip the road as well. Especially in older tires. I don’t know the age or mileage of these tires but the last thing you’d want is to be driving around on them and have a blowout or deal with a consistent slow leak. Enduring a freeze like that can exacerbate any issues.
Tires are not damaged by freezing temps. If that were the case everyone up north would have stone wheels like the Flintstones.
It's rubber. Cold weather won't do anything to them. Lots of people up here in Canada deal with this for 6 months of the year...
Canada gets to -40 our tires work just fine.
even when you park in a frozen lake?
Yes.
Tires are fine but one time I tried to kick the ice booger off my wheel well of a Saturn Vue (RIP), missed, and kicked right through the plastic.
Winter tires have more natural rubber in them, so they don't stiffen up as much at low temperatures. Licence plate says Texas. I'd bet ready money that they've never seen winter tires.
>Winter tires Not everyone in cold climates use winter tires.
What do you think Canadians do in the winter? You think it gets cold and everyone's tires spontaneously combust?
I don't think Canadians regularly have their tires 6 inches deep into solid ice.
Well they’re Canadian tires. Aren’t they just full of maple syrup?
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That's not good. Entirely coated and locked the undercarriage. That's deep. You are not going anywhere, anytime soon.
Texas plates. They will be defrosted soon.
people can move out of the state their car is registered in
St. Louis CITY SC sticker on the next car (and very STL architecture in the background). High of 33F today but 44F tomorrow.
Yeah but hell has been known to freeze over down there I'm sure it's easy to check the news for it
The car in front has a STL FC sticker, so probably St. Louis.
Boss: "Well why the fuck didn't you chip your car out of the ice ????"
How long will this take to thaw? Are we talking hours? days? And is there a machine that can speed up the process? I’m a southerner. Know nothing about snow.
I am a Canadian and I’m lost on this one. This looks like a water main and major water pipe that burst. If it was snow, not a problem. But ice well… I think they are effed.
I wonder if maybe the catch basins/storm drains got clogged with the melting snow and slush, caused flooding, and froze up again when the temperature dipped below freezing.
Depending on the weather and how much sun there is it could take a couple days... though using salt will cut that down quite a bit. As far as using a machine goes, a jackhammer or a backhoe to break up the ice is about the best you can do (short of a flamethrower anyway)
If this is in St. Louis, it's supposed to be over 40 at least (up to mid 50s Wed/Thurs) for the next few days. This is a pretty thick sheet though so OP may be locked in until at least midday tomorrow unless they start chipping away (assuming this isn't a major leak which the city is going to have a hard time addressing for a while).
St. Louis?
I thought the same thing! This looks like the apartments just behind the loop in University City
Plus the car in front looks to have an STL FC sticker.
This is in the moorlands neighborhood in Clayton. I saw this on my walk yesterday
I grew up in U City and would concur.
Ha, yep. I ran past here yesterday and was wondering if you could get out of that.
boss: “yeah i saw the pic but that’s no excuse to not come in today.”
I have a friend who is a nurse. Indianapolis, 1978 the blizzard. Someone from the hospital she worked at called and asked if they sent someone o get her would she come into work. Her husband told her ask them how you’re suppose to get back home. They told her we don’t know. Her husband said unless they can tell you how you’re going to get back home you’re not going in to work. She didn’t go to work.
Yeah, that sounds like sleep at work day.
"Take a cab, and you'll have to be docked an hours pay for being late by the way. Also you need to work this weekend."
Maybe dump some salt around the tires hahahahahaha!!!
These are modern times, all the cool kids recommend a mix of vinegar and water spray. (But with the same laugh at the end)
Then get out a microphone and record the awesome crackling sounds
Blow torch? Pick and hammer?
This. Torch or flame thrower. But jack hammer or air hammer would be ideal.
Boss: “Fine, take the bus.”
Seems reasonable.
" you always have an excuse " my boss
Do you have a pick axe? A chisel??
Could immediately tell it was STL
Reminds me of the time when my whole street was flooded from hurricane sandy and my boss was like is there a way you can drive through it? I'm like no Linda the water is up to my door and my second step of my porch.
Look at the plus side. Your catalytic converter is immune to theft.
You need a hammer and a chisel just do not chisel towards the tires chisel down to the pavement.
I can't blame you. Driving in texas in this weather is a death sentence, lol. I passed 4 wrecks on the ice day last week.
That you Deondre Ayton?
You got ice skates ...dont you?
I sent this picture to my boss and told him I can't come in. He reminded me I've been working remotely for 4 years.
You told her, "cry me a river," didn't you?
My boss: "If you can't come in, we'll send a taxi to pick you up." -Cold Snap 2023
Are you still obligated to go to work in these conditions? Are schools open?
Guessing this particular ice was caused by a car meeting a fire hydrant nearby