Account Deleted By User So, I'm in Alaska and we've had some nasty weather lately, around -30F lately. My husband has to jump his car to get it to turn on!  Also our pipes froze in the shower.  I've been trying to break up the ice chunk in the damned u bend for a while now, doing the whole boiling water then shop vac it out and repeat.  While waiting for another kettle of water to boil I wondered, how the hell do obeasts deal with wafflestomping on a daily basis!? Ice is a pain in the ass to clear but I can't imagine clearing a turdberg.  Kind of meta I guess, but just a funny observation. Update: after 5 hours of boiling water and salt, drain is cleared. Yay! I'll have to try ethyl alcohol like some of you mentioned. Is that similar to isopropyl alcohol?