It doesn't. You clear the snow and ice off before setting off. The defroster or heater keeps it from refreezing with the help of the slipstream of air helping to keep the stuff from accumulating on the glass. You slow or stop, it can accumulate, it becomes more than the defroster or heater can handle, it freezes. Maybe once you're moving the wind plus the defroster can knock it loose, maybe you have to pull over and scrape it off again, maybe the wiper fluid will help if it doesn't just make it worse.

You don't get road slop from treated roads from other vehicles? I've been up to Canadian provinces where it's ungodly below zero and the same problems exist.

That could be the big difference between you and everyone else. I'd rather deal with the windows than freeze.

Sure it does. The cabin of the vehicle gets warm therefore the windows get warm. When you slow down or stop, the wind tunnel effect goes away and it accumulates. If it accumulates too much, it lowers the temperature of the glass enough to freeze. Same thing with body panels. You can leave the defroster running, but it is only capable of so much, the weather can exceed its capability.

I have a difficult time accepting that you're in Alaska. Is there some part of the state that never sees cold weather? Anyone anywhere in New England could describe all of this the exact same way.

AK47 seems most likely. Gun nut. Possibly a libertarian.

BTW, we're seeing more snow than you. Please come get it.

If you do actually live in Alaska, you must not go outside much. The second you stop moving in traffic everything refreezes. You must have magical snow.

It was windy the whole time. But what the fuck would I know, I just live in the area.

Ever drive in a snow storm? It refreezes. Constantly.

The snow is light-weight powder and we haven't had a thaw/freeze cycle, so when the wind hit makes no difference. Only about half of the roofs have been flat. There's a huge multi-building apartment complex down the street from me that evacuated because one building did have a roof collapse. The roof was nearly as pitched as my own. A number of others in other towns with similar style roofs have had the same problem.

Wind can relocate snow, but high wind doesn't mean roofs or anything else gets cleared off. It just means the snow gets put wherever nature feels like it. Get some gloppy slushy snow and that stuff will stick to anything like glue. Your panels would be doing about as good as our roofs, which isn't very good. The best part is that houses with panels would have to bear the weight of the roof, the weight of the panels, plus the weight of the snow. Not to mention the wind when it really gets ripping up here will want to tear those panels right off. Wind gets strong enough here to remove roofs if there's enough imperfection in them, or shoddy maintenance, or stuff attached to them that wasn't meant to be there.

Exactly. That's why during this time of wind gusts over 60mph, greater Boston has seen dozens of roof collapses.

But garbage collection and trace logging are part of software development which women apparently don't want to do?

Most of the people on this site are likely working in the tech industry or studying to work in the tech industry, if discrimination were a prevalent problem there would epic whining about it here.

Congrats, you have just defined government.

The summary mentions wireless a couple of times but it doesn't explicitly mention wired connections. That's probably what is meant by "broadband", but that's a somewhat non-specific term. You actually have to read the article.. but we all know that no one here does that.

Our leaders don't even obey the US Constitution, do you think they're going to let an international treaty get in their way?

Ads pay for television, yet I haven't seen any major disruption given the popularity of DVRs.

You're right, we need to involve the TSA. They can prevent Uber drivers from groping passengers.

Oh.. wait a minute.

There are assholes on both sides of the political spectrum, and many from both end up in court. It's not about what the assholes are up to. What matters is whether or not the law treats everyone fairly. Going to court sucks, but it's part of the process. A neighbor and I had to repeatedly contact law enforcement and code enforcement over something similar. The city threatened to take it to court, and that settled the matter. It'd be nice if it didn't go that far, but if someone thinks they're in the right, it can be difficult to persuade them otherwise.

An opposite of the equal treatment concept would be affirmative action. That is an example of laws that selectively benefit only certain groups of people, and it's not something that you can blame on "conservatives".