Public Service Announcement: Get The Damn Snow/Ice Off Your Car

This truck windshield in North Conway, New Hampshire was
smashed because the motorist in front of them didn't 
bother cleaning a layer of ice from their SUV. The 
ice broke free and smashed this windshield 

 If you have not already done so, please do this common courtesy: Get as much snow and ice off your car as you can. 

This should be obvious, but it's not. In New Hampshire yesterday, more than at 20 cars were damaged when snow and ice blew off other vehicles and slammed into windshields.

I've seen in the past couple of days a foot or more of snow on car roofs, trailing a blizzard of snow to blind motorists behind them. 

  I've also seen idiots with a big pile of snow on their car roof, then hit the brakes.  Physics being physics, all the snow then slides onto the windshield, completely obscuring it. 

Or, people just carve a small hole in the ice caking windshields instead of all the glass on the car. Then they wonder why they can't seen anything. Vermont State Police tweeted an example of that back in mid-January, complete with a photo of a "peekaboo" windshield covered in ice, except for a small porthole. 

The person driving this car through
Jericho, Vermont in January received
a $105 ticket for this "peekaboo windshield"

That motorist received a $105 ticket. 

New Hampshire has a law saying you must clear all the snow and ice from your car.  Vermont does not have such a law. 

The $105 ticket I referenced above was because the windshield was obscured.  Had the motorist cleared the windshield but not the hood and roof, they might have gotten away with no ticket.

However, if there's snow and ice on your car and it flies off and damaged another vehicle or God forbid hurts somebody, you're in trouble. You might well be facing a felony in those situations. 

This rant probably won't get the attention of the idiots who don't clear their cars, but a guy's gotta try anyway.  I mean, really.  There was close to a foot and a half of snow on my truck yesterday and it took me 10 minutes to clean it off. 

Plus another five to shovel out the truck bed. Pro tip: If you don't shovel out the truck bed, the cars behind you get a blizzard and your rear window gets covered in slush. 

So please, be nice.  Clean off your vehicle after every snow and ice storm.