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Phil, Punxsutawney’s well-fed (and quite frankly, drunk-lookin’) ground hog just made his prediction: SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER. Oh dang! I just bit the inside of my cheek. Noooooo! I don’t know if I can take one more day of icy-rain falling at a slant or white-out conditions– look, if we have another week of snow days, I’m just going to have to home school my kids. I practically have to pray for the courage to shovel the driveway so we can get on the road in the morning.

The worst part is trying to leave work when in the course of 8 hours my car has transformed into a four-wheeling popsicle. It’s 5:05 and I have to primp and prep that car like a model during fashion week– let her engine run, get her some new snow tires, get her a
cappuccino . . . and the car windshield. Nothing worse than trying to scrape sheets of ice off the windshield when your hands are also made of sheets of ICE! I buy one of those good-for-nothing scrapers every time I fill up the gas tank– just toss it in the back seat– but do you know I never can find one when I need it? I usually find at least one, months later, being used by one my kids as a makeshift shovel in the sandbox!

So, I bought the Rechargeable Ice Scraper, and I’m never letting it out of my sight. This scraper is cordless– it has a built-in heating conductor– heats up fast and melts ice and snow off the windows like a drippy ice cream cone on a summer’s day. Just charge up the battery in your car’s 12v outlet and you’ve got almost two hours of full-on heat in a New York minute. Take that Old Man Winter!