How Not to Get Ice off Your Roof

• Don't use a propane torch.
• Don't use a propane torch if you have antique Porsches in your garage.
• "[H]ire a professional -- one who doesn't employ propane torches."

Someone in Rockville violated all those rules.

Time to register icepanic.com?

The Post reports:

After a Sunday of snow-clearing, nightfall brought temperatures in the 20s, and by morning wet sidewalks were icy. That sent people tumbling, and many rolled into emergency rooms for X-rays, splints and casts.

"We had a total of 57 X-rays this morning for backs, ankles, hands and wrists," said Ron Harris, a spokesman for Howard University Hospital.

And there were other hazards:

At George Washington University Medical Center...."Today, we have had less than a dozen visits, mostly people complaining of injuries from shoveling."