Process Essay: How To Get The Snow Off Your Car

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I head out the door for work knowing that I am running late, I am surprised and stop cold because my car is overlaid with snow and I cannot drive until the snow is cleared off the car. This essay will cover the topic of snow on your vehicle and planning ahead for safety. Coming from the North, I am contemplating there probably are many Southerners that have no concept of how to remove snow off their car. The purpose of this essay is to explain how to get the snow off your vehicle, so you and others will be safer.
Before beginning this task we need to evaluate what tools we need. I don’t care if there is snow, ice or nothing on the ground, if it is cold, I will have gloves on. Not everyone needs glove, but
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The ones with a brush on one side and a scraper ono the other side are highly recommend because they cost about the same as the ones with only a bush on one side and one never knows when one might need the scraper. You might need a shovel depending on the amount and type of snow. It is great if you own indoors cats, because then you should have cat litter around, which is a great binder for on the ground around your tires. So now that we have our tools, let’s move on to the task of removing the snow.
Removing snow from your car, is not always a difficult task, although at times it can be. Wet icy snow can be more of a burden to remove. The engine needs to be started and allowed to warm up so that damage does not occur to it while driving. Also the front and rear defrost needs to be turned on so its heat will immensely assist in removing the snow off the rear window and windshield. While the defrost is warming up the windshield, a snow brush can be used to clear the snow from the windshield. The snow has been light so I can use the brush end to sweep in a downward stroke from the uppermost part of the windshield down off the hood of the car. I do this on one side of the car and then move to the other side of the car. If by chance the snow was a heavy wet

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