{"id":45,"date":"2015-03-04T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2015-03-04T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:39:44","slug":"life-hacks-snow-way-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/life-hacks-snow-way-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Hacks: &#8216;Snow Way!&#8217; Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The forecast shows freezing rain tonight, and\u00a0I need to get somewhere in a hurry tomorrow!&#8221; Whether it sleets, snows, or freezes over,\u00a0you may still have to get up, go to work\/school, and get out on the roads. To make things a little easier, we&#8217;ve comprised a helpful list of &#8220;life hacks&#8221; that may prevent icy issues.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The night before a chilly forecast, park your car facing toward the east. With luck, the Sun will do most of the work for you!<\/li>\n<li>Spray your car&#8217;s windows with 2\/3 vinegar, 1\/3 water. This will keep ice from forming on your windows. (Just be\u00a0careful about spraying\u00a0your car&#8230;the vinegar <em>can<\/em> damage the paint.)<\/li>\n<li>Keep your windshield wipers off the windshield by lifting them. Once you&#8217;ve gotten the ice off your windshield, you can place the wipers back into their original position and be on your merry way.<\/li>\n<li>Hand sanitizer can melt away snow on your car door handles. And, let&#8217;s be real.. if you&#8217;re not already carrying around hand sanitizer, then you should.#fluseason<\/li>\n<li>Cover your side mirrors with a plastic Ziploc bag and zip it as far as it will go. This will prevent ice from forming on your side mirrors, eliminating one step in\u00a0your morning&#8217;s &#8220;de-icing&#8221; process.<\/li>\n<li>If you find yourself without an ice scraper, use a <em>non<\/em>metal kitchen spatula or a credit card.<\/li>\n<li>Making shoveling snow a lot easier by spraying non-stick cooking oil on your shovel. The snow comes right off!<\/li>\n<li>Spread cat litter underneath your tires to gain some traction. (Plan B: If you don&#8217;t have a cat, use your car&#8217;s floor mats, instead.)<\/li>\n<li>If your headlights become foggy or dirty, clean them off with an old rag and some toothpaste. Although it takes a while, you&#8217;ll feel much more at ease with the safety that comes with it!<\/li>\n<li>As we mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/ice-ice-baby-car-safety-in-winter-weather\/\">our last post<\/a>,\u00a0keep a winter weather emergency kit in your car at all times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Because North Carolina is used to getting snow late in the winter months, I&#8217;m sure that these life hacks will become useful to you soon enough. As always, be safe driving on roads during\/after inclement weather. Read up in our previous post on ways to practice safe driving in snowy\/icy situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The forecast shows freezing rain tonight, and\u00a0I need to get somewhere in a hurry tomorrow!&#8221; Whether it sleets, snows, or freezes over,\u00a0you may still have to get up, go to work\/school, and get out on the roads. To make things a little easier, we&#8217;ve comprised a helpful list of &#8220;life hacks&#8221; that may prevent icy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-insurance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownphillips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}