This guy not only has a sense of humor, he's got a noisy scraper for his windshield, and that's what first attracted me to look out the window, and then take these pictures.
I grew up back east, in northern Ontario, where we had nine months winter, two months bad skiing, and one month of summer, during which we got cut out of our 'long-johns' and got our annual bath in a big tin washtub...but I'm digressing again....
The point of all this is, having more experience with real winter than most of my city-slicker neighbors here, I know a few tricks, and one of them is for de-icing windshields quickly and painlessly. Save an empty Windex spray-pumper bottle, and put some 99% Isopropyl Alcohol from the drug store in it. Give your frosty windshield a few squirts of that, wait a minute or so, and then the slush can all be removed by your windshield wipers.
But DON'T put the alcohol in your wiper fluid system - it has a drying effect that makes the wipers squeak and squawk something awful. It doesn't harm rubber, because it's used in aircraft de-icing systems, but on a car windshield it will make noises if used with the wiper system. The good news is, you'll have a germ-free windshield. The bad news is, your air intake will suck in the fumes and those aren't healthy. They're also flammable.
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