About the only thing I have to contribute to this is, erm, this:
https://www.amazon.com/OxGord-Windshield-Removal-Protector-Scraping/dp/B01AOHYT50
You might feel like a doofus putting it on in the evening, but you'll thank past you the next morning when you can just pull it off, toss in the back seat, and go.
We got two inches of sloppy, wet snow last Wednesday that melted pretty fast, though that didn't stop all of my retired neighbors firing up their massive snowblowers. I was away on travel, but my wife finally got to try our new electric one (just for fun) and she said it worked great.