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here comes the tough stuff, by Friday we'll have -29F before windchill factoring. I'm finally going to have to break out my big leather jacket with room for a sweater under, this is too much for my thick skin anymore.
Groan... here it's +6C° and past days it went up to 15°C ! My cats have lost a good share of their winter fat, hope i'm wrong, but looks like winter is kinda over here...
haha, felt asleep on the sofa this afternoon and dreamt I was waking up and see that it had snowed while I was asleep. i was super happy, but also thought "damn, I wrote on Icmag that winter was over, but it's all wrong, gotta modify my post !"
And then I woke up, no snow of course... moan...
We're expecting fukkin' snow AGAIN tonight and tomorrow with lows reaching 19. My little space heater in the tent will be running overtime with the light off... AGAIN!! ARGH!!!!!
it took 4 hours to start my car after last nights cold, I must've had water/ice in the lines as I'd forgotten to put a jug of 'DryGas' in the tank which was also low on fuel.
so much for being prepared for the cold spell.......
I'm not quite as far north as you SFL, but we did get down to -19 the other night, and pretty much hovered around zero all day yesterday.
I have a garage so it doesn't really affect my car, but my little dog has to be bundled up before going out, including boots that are a huge PITA to get on him, but if he doesn't wear them his paws freeze in about 3-5 minutes.
we had 35 above the other day but it was snowing like a bastard w/the wind blowing hard too, didn't feel like the heatwave that it could have had the sun been shining bright on a calm day.......
so there I am toolin' along @ 55-60mph on some fresh slick snow, not smart but then again I haven't put myself in the ditch in over 22 years and this is the way I drive up here. I'm headed downhill when my front right tire gets caught up in a rut, I decide to correct instead of riding it out and suddenly I've got my Explorer turned sideways at highway speeds. The ditch on the right is a soft 50 foot drop to the bottom & the left ditch is the continuation of the hill going uphill.
I have 2 cars coming at me and zero chance of pulling out of the slide before we meet for impact so I let the truck go left and go sliding rear end first into that ditch @ an easy 50mph which usually means your chassis is resting on too much snow (referred to as being 'high centered' up here) and a tow truck needs to pull you out.
Now I'm facing uphill engine running and still in 4 wheel drive, I give it some gas and come shooting out of that ditch like it was a plowed driveway.
what a stroke of luck, cost me all of about 30 seconds to turn around and get on my way.......