so, my stupid car is in a block of ice

No problem. Once I get in my car.... the winshield is frozen solid and it's got a crack it already from a rock that hit my car on the highway a few weeks ago. I probably shouldn't try to mess with it.

There was a little girl outside collecting icicles off cars and saying that she was going to sell them. That was cute.

Im fortunate enough to live in a major city and although we have water restrictions erwsie a its still ok to shower everyday, so to anwser your question Cutiebunny, I don't smell too bad.

Nothing melts ice quicker than warm salt water but becareful melting the ice to quickly on the windshield otherwise the rapid change in temperature will crack the glass.

I think we got your weather and you got ours by mistake. Last night it was positively balmy and we've hardly had to turn on the heat for the past few weeks. 29 isn't so bad, we'll be settling into the teens later this week.

A credit card works well as an impromptu scraper. ;D

Yeah, 29 is warm. It just happens to be when water starts to think it's cold. Teens (with wind) is when you really start to notice that your jacket isn't working as well as you had hoped.

You use credit card as scraper? That can't be good for the credit card....

And yeah, I don't wanna try breaking my car out from the ice because I have two unpatched chips in my winshield. Any bit of violent expansion of melting/re-freezing ice in those and I'd bet dollars to donuts that they'd become very sizable cracks.

And the fun in Texas continues! I woke up this morning to about an inch of snow and still snowing and a nice sheet of ice. The highway by my house is closed, so the train it is. Although I know that in Austin where you are Jason, it rarely rarely gets that cold. Dallas is sort of used to it, but everyone south of us has had a shock. My family in Houston said that it was supposed to snow there as well!

Hey birdie, come take your weather back.