How to enter an iced car

I live just south of Lexington KY, and the
last 24 hors have been interesting. Areas
slightly to our north-west have record
snows. We had a mild ice storm last night.
About 1/4" of the clear crud. The local
power utility does a good job of keeping
trees cut back so we had no power outage.
Feb. 2003 saw some areas without power for
up to 2 weeks. w
I was dismayed to dicover my 1991 Civic coated
in a sheath of ice. I could unluck the front
doors, but couldn't budge to doors. So I got
the hatch up, crawled in and made it into the
drivers seat. Since I am 6'1" it was quite
a sight. The engine started up with no problem.
I expected to be able to force a door open from
inside the car. WRONG. Stuck like with epoxy.
Crawled back out through the rear hatch.
I couldn't get into my utility building because
the combination lock was iced over.
I debated pouring some warm water on the doors,
but decided that thermal shock might crack the
glass. So I rumaged through the house looking
for a solution. I found the Krogar house
version of "Lysol". 99% alcohol. So I grabbed
both cans and went out to fight the ice.
Worked great. As I sprayed it on, the ice
lifted away from the door frame. I used a small
peice of flexible plastic, AKA credit card, to
work the alcohol into the seals. Took about 10
minutes on each door.
By that time the engine had heated up enough to
loosen the ice on the windshield.
I sprayed the seals and wiped them off then sprayed
them with silicon. When the temps drop to 0 tonight
I should be able to get into my car.
The only downside is the car smells like a doctors
office.
Terry

You dont have a hammer?


> wrote in message
oups.com...
> I live just south of Lexington KY, and the
> last 24 hors have been interesting. Areas
> slightly to our north-west have record
> snows. We had a mild ice storm last night.
> About 1/4" of the clear crud. The local
> power utility does a good job of keeping
> trees cut back so we had no power outage.
> Feb. 2003 saw some areas without power for
> up to 2 weeks. w
> I was dismayed to dicover my 1991 Civic coated
> in a sheath of ice. I could unluck the front
> doors, but couldn't budge to doors. So I got
> the hatch up, crawled in and made it into the
> drivers seat. Since I am 6'1" it was quite
> a sight. The engine started up with no problem.
> I expected to be able to force a door open from
> inside the car. WRONG. Stuck like with epoxy.
> Crawled back out through the rear hatch.
> I couldn't get into my utility building because
> the combination lock was iced over.
> I debated pouring some warm water on the doors,
> but decided that thermal shock might crack the
> glass. So I rumaged through the house looking
> for a solution. I found the Krogar house
> version of "Lysol". 99% alcohol. So I grabbed
> both cans and went out to fight the ice.
> Worked great. As I sprayed it on, the ice
> lifted away from the door frame. I used a small
> peice of flexible plastic, AKA credit card, to
> work the alcohol into the seals. Took about 10
> minutes on each door.
> By that time the engine had heated up enough to
> loosen the ice on the windshield.
> I sprayed the seals and wiped them off then sprayed
> them with silicon. When the temps drop to 0 tonight
> I should be able to get into my car.
> The only downside is the car smells like a doctors
> office.
> Terry
>

First thing, make sure your weather-stripping is in good shape. That could
solve your problem right off.

When I lived in NY state, this happened to me a few times a year. Some
people may not like my solution, but it worked. I owned an old car (minus
remote entry)... yes I needed a key to unlock. Well, the key "flap" was
broken in an open position and was prone to icing up. Sure no one would've
stolen the car if I never locked it, but thats not the point. Take out a
lighter and heat up the key. Also put the flame to the lock mechanism...
try not to set any cloth gloves on fire.

To open the door from that point, I'd lightly thump on the frame (NOT glass)
and rub an ice scraper along the crack. If you can't even get a crack in
the ice sheet, use the same lighter and melt a small hole in the ice (at the
frame), then start peeling/pounding.

-keith




> wrote in message
oups.com...
> I live just south of Lexington KY, and the
> last 24 hors have been interesting. Areas
> slightly to our north-west have record
> snows. We had a mild ice storm last night.
> About 1/4" of the clear crud. The local
> power utility does a good job of keeping
> trees cut back so we had no power outage.
> Feb. 2003 saw some areas without power for
> up to 2 weeks. w
> I was dismayed to dicover my 1991 Civic coated
> in a sheath of ice. I could unluck the front
> doors, but couldn't budge to doors. So I got
> the hatch up, crawled in and made it into the
> drivers seat. Since I am 6'1" it was quite
> a sight. The engine started up with no problem.
> I expected to be able to force a door open from
> inside the car. WRONG. Stuck like with epoxy.
> Crawled back out through the rear hatch.
> I couldn't get into my utility building because
> the combination lock was iced over.
> I debated pouring some warm water on the doors,
> but decided that thermal shock might crack the
> glass. So I rumaged through the house looking
> for a solution. I found the Krogar house
> version of "Lysol". 99% alcohol. So I grabbed
> both cans and went out to fight the ice.
> Worked great. As I sprayed it on, the ice
> lifted away from the door frame. I used a small
> peice of flexible plastic, AKA credit card, to
> work the alcohol into the seals. Took about 10
> minutes on each door.
> By that time the engine had heated up enough to
> loosen the ice on the windshield.
> I sprayed the seals and wiped them off then sprayed
> them with silicon. When the temps drop to 0 tonight
> I should be able to get into my car.
> The only downside is the car smells like a doctors
> office.
> Terry
>

The lock worked fine.
I spary it about once a month
with a good quality silcon
lub.
I had even taken the precaution
of appling silcon to the door seals.
In other ice events that had
allowed me to enter with no problem.
Terry

green salad, and iced tea.
Coffee and apple pie then brandy.



Maternity Ward Pot Luck Dinner

If you can?t get anything fresh from the hospital, nursery, or morgue;
you can at least get rid of all the leftovers in your refrigerator.

1 - 2 lbs. cubed meat (human flesh, chicken, turkey, beef...)
1 -2 lbs. coarsely chopped vegetables
(carrots, potatoes, turnips, cauliflower, cabbage...)
Bell pepper
onions
garlic
ginger
salt pepper, etc.
Olive oil
butter

Brown the meat and some chopped onions, peppers, and garilic in olive oil,
place in baking dish, layer with vegetables seasoning and butter.
Bake at 325° for 30 - 45 minutes.
Serve with hot dinner rolls, fruit salad and sparkling water.



Bébé Buffet 1

Show off with whole roasted children replete with apples in mouths -
and babies? heads stuffed with wild rice. Or keep it simple with a
hearty main course such as stew, lasagna, or meat loaf.

Some suggestions

Pre-mie pot pies, beef stew, leg of lamb, stuffed chicken, roast pork spiral ham,
Cranberry pineapple salad, sweet potatoes in butter, vegetable platter, tossed salad with tomato and avocado, parsley new potatoes, spinich cucumber salad, fruit salad
Bran muffins, dinner rolls, soft breadsticks, rice pilaf, croissants
Apple cake with rum sauce, frosted banana nut bread sherbet, home made brownies
Iced tea, water, beer, bloody marys, lemonade, coffee

The guests select food, beverages, silverware... everything from the buffet table.

roast pork spiral ham,
Cranberry pineapple salad, sweet potatoes in butter, vegetable platter, tossed salad with tomato and avocado, parsley new potatoes, spinich cucumber salad, fruit salad
Bran muffins, dinner rolls, soft breadsticks, rice pilaf, croissants
Apple cake with rum sauce, frosted banana nut bread sherbet, home made brownies
Iced tea, water, beer, bloody marys, lemonade, coffee

The guests select food, beverages, silverware... everything from the buffet table.
They move to wherever they are comfortable, and sit with whoever they choose.
Provide trays so your guests will not spill everything all over your house from
carrying too much, nor will they have to make 10 trips back and fourth from the
service stations.



Roast Leg of Amputee

By all means, substitute lamb or a good beef roast if the haunch
it is in any way diseased. But sometimes surgeons make mistakes,
and if a healthy young limb is at hand, then don?t hesitate to cook
it to perfection!

1 high quality limb, rack, or roast
Potatoes, carrot
Oil
celery
onions
green onions
parsley
garlic
salt, pepper, etc
2 cups beef stock

Marinate meat (optional, not necessary with better cuts).
Season liberally and lace with garlic cloves by making incisions,
and placing whole cloves deep into the meat.
Grease a baking pan, and fill with a thick bed of onions,
celery, green onions, and parsley.
Place roast on top with fat side up.
Place uncovered in 500° oven for 20 minutes, reduce oven to 325°.
Bake till medium rare (150°) and let roast rest.
Pour stock over onions and drippings, carve the meat and
place the slices in the au jus.



Bisque à l?Enfant

Honor the memory of Grandma with this dish by utilizing her good
silver soup tureen and her great grandchildren (crawfish, crab or
lobster will work just as well

I would clean the seals with rubbing alcohol or some type of cleaner. Then I
would apply a silicone spray or lube to just the stripping. I don't know
which is better but I would think that it would work.

Additionally if I was experiencing that type of ice problem I would consider
a car cover at night. Hell large sheet of plastic might work just as well
draped over the door and certainly on the windshield to help prevent
scraping ice in the morning.
> wrote in message
oups.com...
> The lock worked fine.
> I spary it about once a month
> with a good quality silcon
> lub.
> I had even taken the precaution
> of appling silcon to the door seals.
> In other ice events that had
> allowed me to enter with no problem.
> Terry
>

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:50:32 -0800, "halo2 guy"
> wrote:

>What the hell is this about
>

That was a forged post by a USENET vandal known as "hipcrime". Dippy
hates USENET, and especially it hates news.admin.net-abuse.email, so
it wrote a piece of abuseware known as "newsagent" that allows it to
forge supercede posts and force follow-ups to flood NANAE with
thousands of "WTF" posts such as yours.

What to do about it is simple. First, look at the headers of a few
forged posts, and filter on the commonly identifiable elements. Lately
dipy's been abusing news servers in northern Europe. If you subscribe
to a service such as Supernews, the filtering is already done for you.
Second, if you feel you NUST reply to a dippyspew post, look very
carefully at where the post will be sent before you send it. This will
ensure that you don't accidentally pollute another group thus doing
dippy's vandalism for it. Third, now that you're immune to this id10t,
join in the defense by posting a message similar to this one whenever
you see a dippyspew in your newsgroup. The more people who know about
dippy, the less damage it can do.

Damn...I have been using newsgroups for years and never came across
something like that.

I currently access groups through my Outlook program going through Comcast
which uses giganews.

Even though I have been using computers since 1982, good old Commodore and
Radio Shack junk, I hardly understood a word you were saying. But thanks
anyways.

Dave
"Jeff C" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:50:32 -0800, "halo2 guy"
> > wrote:
>
>>What the hell is this about
>>
>
> That was a forged post by a USENET vandal known as "hipcrime". Dippy
> hates USENET, and especially it hates news.admin.net-abuse.email, so
> it wrote a piece of abuseware known as "newsagent" that allows it to
> forge supercede posts and force follow-ups to flood NANAE with
> thousands of "WTF" posts such as yours.
>
> What to do about it is simple. First, look at the headers of a few
> forged posts, and filter on the commonly identifiable elements. Lately
> dipy's been abusing news servers in northern Europe. If you subscribe
> to a service such as Supernews, the filtering is already done for you.
> Second, if you feel you NUST reply to a dippyspew post, look very
> carefully at where the post will be sent before you send it. This will
> ensure that you don't accidentally pollute another group thus doing
> dippy's vandalism for it. Third, now that you're immune to this id10t,
> join in the defense by posting a message similar to this one whenever
> you see a dippyspew in your newsgroup. The more people who know about
> dippy, the less damage it can do.

I keep a can of common de-icer in a spray can for situations just like
this.By the way,DE-ICERS contain methanol,which is a type of alcohol.You
essentially did the same thing as a spray de-icer chemical,although your
way was slower and more difficult.The only advantage of a spray de-icer
is that it is faster and covers more area quickly.