""BARRY OLIVER"" <DHSPA58@dhs.state.il.us> wrote in message
news:sdedcce5.054@mail.dhs.state.il.us...
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> Try getting a piece of cardboard (old refridgerator box) and build a
"shell" that will catch all of the ice, etc. that you can back into. It
will look goofy at first, but once it ices up, you will have a "socket" to
back your truck into...
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> >>> andylevy@yahoo.com 12/03/02 11:05PM >>>
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> Moved into a new apartment this summer so this if my first winter
> dealing with this parking lot. Parking spaces are right against the
> building and the roof slopes down towards it that in the rain there's a
> "curtain" parallel with the facec of the building.
>
> Fast-forward to the last couple weeks. With the snow I typically park
> ass-in so I can pull out easier. Trouble is, I now have a *huge* mass
> of ice on the bumper, to the point where the license plate is 3/4
> obscured, and I'm not sure the tailgate will open due to the mass on the
> top of the bumper. Fortunately, I've been parking far enough from the
> wall that it's not coming down on the soft tonneau.
>
> Obviously I don't want to park nose-in, because I'll just b0rk all my
> new bodywork up there (but ice over the radiator - work better than
> cardboard!). Should I just grin & bear it, taking a bucket of hot water
> to it every couple days to keep things in check, or should I try to talk
> a neighbor into trading spaces with me so I can park much farther away
> but out of the path of the ice?
>
> December 3 and the icicles hanging down from the edge of the roof are
> longer than the bottom of my window (I'm on the top floor). This is
> gonna be a long, cold winter (3F this morning).
explain to the building manager the water damge he is going to have on is
roof! sounds like they need eavesdrough's to me!
Punch
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