Don't clear snow with your wipers...

...*bzzzzzzt*

£££ 

Credit card/non-essential plastic wallet card = WIN

Wipers definitely = LOSE

That or I use very luke warm water to get the worst off. Not hot - it could shatter the glass obviously.

I've cleared much more snow in the past with them than I did today.  This seemed a light dusting but it was that wet, soggy, heavy stuff...   

If I'd used the CC to clear it I wouldn't be using it now to pay a hefty bill! 

A plastic scrape to scratch the ice away or cover window with blanket (hold with wipers and pinched in doors)

Snow!? Use a brush. Voompf done In 2 seconds.

Frost? De-icer or cover with a blanket the night before.

I know, I know.

A costly moment of laziness...

It's just not been your week really, happens to us all at some point.

Just waiting for 'number three' in the typical run of bad luck!    

I doubt you have done any major damage doing that, either blown the fuse or made the wiper arms lift off the splined shaft or at worst bent an arm on the mech.

I checked the fuse, driver side and it's ok.  Couldn't be arsed looking under the bonnet.

Arms are secure and don't appear to have lifted off.

At the garage now - way beyond my 'can be arsed' patience, tbh. 

poundland = mit with built in icescraper

I always use thick rubber gloves like builders use...

then just wipe/scrape it off with your hands, much quicker and easier

I went around to a local DIY shop a few years back, had a large box of 'free' plastic scrapers for doing decorating. I acquired a few. Worked very well on car window snow

I use a rubbery scraper. It's about 40cm long, the soft rubber bit is about 10cm deep. It's lasted years and the material makes it good for cleaning the inside of the window of condensation, yet it's bulky enough that it'll shovel the snow off the outside in seconds.

Only falls down a bit when it's hard ice on the window, but then I doubt a brush would help, and I wouldn't want to be attacking it with something hard either. When it's like that I just let the car run a couple of minutes and chuck some deicer on it.