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shroomer17
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Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway?
#19306056 - 12/21/13 01:40 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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So I got home from work to find my driveway is sheer ice.
I emptied almost a whole bag of salt until I was able to get my car up it. The place the car is parked is still on a slight angle. I put the e-brake on and parked it, but I'm a little worried that maybe if the driveway re-freezes the car could slide back down on its own? Seems unlikely but remotely possible....
What do you think? Should I park my car on the street?
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: shroomer17]
#19306082 - 12/21/13 01:55 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Idk I doubt it but you may as well park it on the street to be safe.
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: shroomer17]
#19306085 - 12/21/13 01:57 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Are you in Dallas, OP?
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: Konichiwaffle]
#19306095 - 12/21/13 02:01 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Niffla said: Idk I doubt it but you may as well park it on the street to be safe.
Yeah I might as well. Already sent the landlord a text saying I used the rest of the salt just getting my car in the driveway, now he's gonna come home later and see I'm not even parked there 
Oh well. Might as well be safe. Kinda trippy parking on the street though because i won't be able to see my car where it's parked from my inside my place. Won't know it's safe until tomorrow when I leave for work I guess. Wish me luck
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Konichiwaffle said: Are you in Dallas, OP?
Not even close... near Toronto
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: shroomer17] 2
#19306105 - 12/21/13 02:06 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Don't park on the streets, you're not supposed to do that when they'll be using the plows.
Park in the driveway, angle your tires, and put something under your back tires like a peice of wood or a brick to keep it from sliding.
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19306111 - 12/21/13 02:10 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Oh, we got sort of the same thing. Toronto huh? You win.
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19306123 - 12/21/13 02:15 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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TrentBoyett said: Don't park on the streets, you're not supposed to do that when they'll be using the plows.
Park in the driveway, angle your tires, and put something under your back tires like a peice of wood or a brick to keep it from sliding.
It's not snowing at all, there's no snow on the roads to plow. Just freezing rain. I dont have anything I could wedge under the tires or I would have done that. And if I were to angle the tires and the car slid, it would slide right into a rather rickety wooden fence and potentially cause a fair bit of damage.
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: shroomer17]
#19306135 - 12/21/13 02:22 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wouldn't it be more likely to just freeze in place? *said the kid from california*
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: Lynnch]
#19306138 - 12/21/13 02:25 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've seen it happen multiple times. It's actually quite hilarious. What's the big deal if your car slides down the driveway it does? Or is there a car parked at the bottom?
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: Lynnch]
#19306139 - 12/21/13 02:26 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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turn your wheels one way or the other. witch ever is safer. if it slips it will turn the way you turned your wheels. worst case sanerio. car in the lawn.
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: Lynnch]
#19306144 - 12/21/13 02:28 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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your car isn't going any where...
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: evileye001]
#19306167 - 12/21/13 02:39 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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qbe said: I've seen it happen multiple times. It's actually quite hilarious. What's the big deal if your car slides down the driveway it does? Or is there a car parked at the bottom?
If it slides down the driveway it ends up in the road which means it gets towed or crashed into.
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evileye001 said:

turn your wheels one way or the other. witch ever is safer. if it slips it will turn the way you turned your wheels. worst case sanerio. car in the lawn.
Like I said earlier It will crash into a rickety wooden fence if i turn the wheels.
It's parked on the street now. Hopefully it will be safe there. Freezing rain is supposed to continue for a couple days though... ugh.
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: shroomer17]
#19306170 - 12/21/13 02:40 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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gonna be shitty when a car slides into you car now.....
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: jboredone]
#19306179 - 12/21/13 02:45 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Toronto looks like a giant skating rink right now!
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: shroomer17]
#19306308 - 12/21/13 03:47 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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shroomer17 said:
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qbe said: I've seen it happen multiple times. It's actually quite hilarious. What's the big deal if your car slides down the driveway it does? Or is there a car parked at the bottom?
If it slides down the driveway it ends up in the road which means it gets towed or crashed into.
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If it's that bad it won't get towed, and by the fact that you are actually worried about it. I am guessing it does happen that often, so you'll be ok.
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: shroomer17]
#19306710 - 12/21/13 07:33 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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This "weather situation" has a name? Winter Storm Gemini
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shroomer17 said:...Freezing rain is supposed to continue for a couple days though... ugh.

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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: vinsue]
#19306775 - 12/21/13 07:54 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you have a small car and shitty tires, I wouldn't chance it. I drive a neon, that fucker slides whenever it feels like it. But that's what you get with an 850lb vehicle.
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: larry.fisherman]
#19306839 - 12/21/13 08:15 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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snow isnt bad, its the ice that will get you
but i grew up in new england...i have a toyota corolla and i can probly drive better in the snow/ice than most of you, its really not that hard unless the roads havent been touched at all by plows/salt
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: Bassfreak]
#19306880 - 12/21/13 08:30 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bassfreak said: snow isnt bad, its the ice that will get you
but i grew up in new england...i have a toyota corolla and i can probly drive better in the snow/ice than most of you, its really not that hard unless the roads havent been touched at all by plows/salt
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Re: Freezing rain: can a parked car slide down a driveway? [Re: jsad316]
#19306895 - 12/21/13 08:35 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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last year i drove thru a blizzard to get to a concert (Break Science with Michal Menert), so unbelievably dangerous and irresposible
a drive that shuda been an hour ended up being 2 and a half, but worth it...i was planning on staying at a homies house 5 minutes from the venue so all i had to do was get there, but it was a semi scary drive lol, but i made it fine
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