Hey Boss, it doesn't seem worth the trouble to clean off the vehicle.
How do you people live in that weather!???
I've been wondering that too, margo. I shiver every time I read this thread!
hey, bethie -- them boots are just for talking the dogs out to piss. for what you're describing I'd recommend some of these:
It's -35 and my block heater cord came undone, so my car wouldn't start this morning. The roads are sheer ice, people in ditches everywhere.
It's so cold........brrrrrrrrrrr
peppermintPD - I've been looking at getting some snowshoes. Couldn't decide whether to get a traditional pair or some of those new titanium ones.
ceili - yikes! not good. The roads are pretty lousy all round. We've been getting all kinds of calls about trucks in ditches all over North America the last couple of days. Not good at all.
i did some snowshoeing this weekend. you MUST go for the new ones. it just makes a world of difference. they have teeth like rabbied hares and will get you through snow or ice of any shapes and amounts. didn't want to take them off!!! But they would melt in a hot tub, so i did.
I've taken to running out 15 mintues before i leave for work to warm up the jeep with the spare key, then sprinting for the jeep with the engine already running when it's time to leave. I've gotten tired of digging ladies' cars out of the snow . . . they've got the standing-there-with-tears-of-frustration-freezing-on-their-cheeks thing down to a fine art . . .
get a remote starter! and a sauna!
I have a spare key to do the same thing, Boss. I give it 10 minutes to take the edge off.
I just spent 2 and a half hours doing the driveway and pad. Great for the obliques. Now me and the young boy cub are going sledding......
just looking out the window here; hell, it's a balmy -7 C out there today, and so sooooo pretty (as viewed from the inside)!
reporting in from the eastern end of lake ontario. it's been a pretty cold january; reminds us of the 1960's and 70's. right now at 3 pm it's barely coming up to minus 16 C and a pretty nasty nor-easterner is blowing the snow around. next week is supposed to be positively balmy, minus 5 c high. so far it's been consistently 10-15 C below average for the month of january. lake ontario frozen nicely, but no one out skating on the lake; the windchill(minus 25-35 C and nasty winds) makes it just too brutal. hbg
We've made it into the 'teens a couple times over the past couple days, but overnight lows remain well below zero. We did get a couple feet of fresh snow, which has given me the opportunity to devote about 32 out of the last 48 hours to staring at the world through the windshield of a big dumptruck shoving a snowplow and scattering sand. Something like that really brings one to appreciate satellite radio ... and auxiliary cab heaters.
. . . and now it's snowing again . . .
On the bright side, the temperature dropped 30 degrees today, so all the standing water and slush on the highways has frozen to a sheet of ice, ending the threat of flooding . . .
. . . i think that's the good news, anyway . . .
Good evening...I'm glad to hear that y'all are surviving and are still in good humor.
I drive a van which handles horribly in snow and ice. I managed to load in 500 lbs of potters' clay on Sunday morning before the storm set in.
We didn't open the store on Monday. There was only about 5" of snow but that was followed by a whole bunch of sleet that made everything really bad. I spent Monday housebound, walking from one window to another. I don't watch television and I had returned my library books without checking out anything new. It was a long, long day.
We opened this morning and it was quite busy given the road conditions. I reckon some folks were also stir-crazy. It started to snow again but I made it home, just in time to see a bit of a yellow ochre sky above the horizon in the west below the gray clouds.
Y'all take care. -rjb-
Its a gorgeous night ... crystal clear, a brillaint moon and an awesome Mars hang directly overhead, alone in a yet-starless void of deepest indigo, while the entire western horizon still faintly glows with the deeping, darkening red of late twilight, rippled here and there by distant ridges. Its already 2 Below outside, and dropping, my tummy is full, I'm toasty warm, and I'm struggling to stay awake to see the official returns from the NH primary. The Puppies are helping, though; they bark and skitter energetically with every passing snowmobile, their enthusiasm knowing no bounds.
hmmmmmmm
Setanta - dya think I could get my spare key back? That idea of pre-heating the car sounds pretty good.
