Frosted over bike after winter storm in Chicago.

I live where it regularly gets to -30 to -40 in winter.

I am very familiar with driving in the cold.

If you have an engine under that hood, and you drive long enough to get to open loop, you’re going to warm it up enough to melt at least the closest layers of snow/ice.

Unless you’re the type of person who just leaves giant piles of snow/ice on their hood, you should notice it.

I’ve got a buddy who found a really nice apartment right on the edge of Austin neighborhood. He’s left to go to work twice and walked into someone being robbed at gunpoint right on the sidewalk. Last time I visited him, our Uber driver asked if we wanted to take a shortcut through Austin. I didn’t really know how bad it was and he didn’t care so we said sure. Literally the entire time we were driving through, the driver kept saying “I shouldn’t have done this, I shouldn’t have done this...” it was the middle of the day and people were just milling around in the street. We had to stop about four times just so ppl could clear out and let us through. We all just kinda slumped down in our seats and passed some liquor around until we were through. Next morning I did some googling and two dudes had been gunned down on the steps of a church later that day.

I can’t imagine growing up in that environment.