Winter Weather Woes: How To Handle Frosty Car Windshields in KY and IN

I was this many years old (53, to be exact) when I was told about a life-changing winter weather hack. It's been really cold the past few days here in western Kentucky. We've been bottoming out near 20 degrees since Thanksgiving and that trend is expected to continue through the next week or so. Heck, we could even dip down into the teens.

While I don't necessarily mind the cold weather during the course of the day, I do mind it in the mornings. See, I host a morning radio show and get up before the sun does. I wake up at 4am each weekday and am in my driveway to head to work by 5am. This morning, I went to get into my car- Fred the Fusion- and noticed that his windshield was frosted over. UGH!!

I will admit this. I am the WORST at scraping off a car window. I have horrid circulation in my hands and I don't like it when they're cold. At 4:50am this morning, it was FRIGGIN' cold.

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Of course, adding insult to injury and my inherent refusal to submit to the demands of the insufferable Mother Nature, I routinely forget to grab my gloves on the way out the door. That's precisely what happened this morning. I didn't have gloves. The windshield needed to be scraped. I didn't want to do it. I thought I could hit defrost, sit for a few, then head off to work. When I pulled out onto my street, I realized that wasn't happening. I was going to have to do some early morning scraping, which I did in front of my neighbor's house at the end of the street. That's as far as I could drive because I couldn't see squat.

I shared the story of my adventure on the air and a listener friend called in with some advice. She shared a ridiculously easy, but effective life hack that involves a spray bottle, some water and some rubbing alcohol.  According to her, it works every single time. Just like that. It's so effective that she even gives her kids spray bottles for their cars.

Wouldn't you know? This hack's been floating around YouTube for years now and, yes, it works! Check this out.

There you have it. Throw that jank scraper into the trash where it belongs. All you need is a spray bottle, a third of a cup of water, and two-thirds of a cup of rubbing alcohol.