I got to thinking the other day what would I do if I didn’t have the ability to park my car inside every now and then. Don’t get me wrong, I still park outside and let the wife park inside, but when needed I can park in side. And the other day I needed it. After a small storm my car was covered in ice and sleet mashed together into a white cover over my car. I spent sometime scraping it away and and clearing a path to see out of. It wasn’t until on my way home that I tried to use the windshield wipers. They were frozen. Not to the windshield but somewhere else. The motor that causes the windshield wipers to go back and fourth couldn’t go, however it kept trying. I drove for about a mile before I got home and could turn off my car. I investigated and realized it was something I couldn’t fix. It had to thaw. So I asked to use the inside parking spot so my poor car could thaw out. After a few hours everything was back to normal.

But what if you don’t have the ability to park inside at your place? Then what do you do? You go out! To dinner or the movies or someplace like that, downtown. In Minneapolis there are at least two public underground parking garages. One under Target and one under the St. Thomas grad school. Both are only $3 after 4pm and on weekends and both are worm enough to thaw out a car. So if you find out your poor car is just to cold or frozen to operate right, just go downtown and park it underground. They may not be nice and toasty but you only need 40 degrees or higher for a few hours to melt that ice and snow.