Its 14 Below Zero This Morning
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Its 14 Below Zero This Morning
The high today will be 5 degrees! The snow squeaks when you walk on it.
Everything is moving slowly....even my 'puter.
The old Aero lives in a heated garage and feels normal driving to work...after 8 hours in sub-zero cold, it feels and drives like a brick....even the seats are hard!
I feel sorry for those of you in warmer climes that do not get to enjoy winters like this......
Everything is moving slowly....even my 'puter.
The old Aero lives in a heated garage and feels normal driving to work...after 8 hours in sub-zero cold, it feels and drives like a brick....even the seats are hard!
I feel sorry for those of you in warmer climes that do not get to enjoy winters like this......
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It's 6 degrees here with a windchill of -13. My Aero stays out now while I'm working on Project Escort. It starts to warm up just about the time I get to work. The wife has heated seats in her garaged Seville STS 
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It's 4 above here with wind chill of -13 here. The Areo stayed in the shop and my wife drove my Bronco to work last night, up where she works it was 12 below and the ignition froze and wound not turn.
Today she's thinking the Areo maybe a better way to go.
Today she's thinking the Areo maybe a better way to go.
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From: Washington state
i'm really slow here also, 14d F last night. Backbone creaks, knees stiff, fingers fell like they have frozen glue in them.
my '96 is the best starting cold wx rig I've ever had. starts 1>2 seconds after hitting starter. Diesel is another story.
the AWD Aero is the best rig in this black ice patchy road stuff we have. no chains required, it takes care of the slippery spots, i just drive.
we have another week of this stuff. the old girl gets to go every day.
we're sending our extra Siberian Express down to LA. Blizzards in the LA mountains.
who was asking for Wash. water?
LA Freeways
my '96 is the best starting cold wx rig I've ever had. starts 1>2 seconds after hitting starter. Diesel is another story.
the AWD Aero is the best rig in this black ice patchy road stuff we have. no chains required, it takes care of the slippery spots, i just drive.
we have another week of this stuff. the old girl gets to go every day.
we're sending our extra Siberian Express down to LA. Blizzards in the LA mountains.
who was asking for Wash. water?
LA Freeways
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The high today will be 5 degrees! The snow squeaks when you walk on it.
Everything is moving slowly....even my 'puter.
The old Aero lives in a heated garage and feels normal driving to work...after 8 hours in sub-zero cold, it feels and drives like a brick....even the seats are hard!
I feel sorry for those of you in warmer climes that do not get to enjoy winters like this......
Everything is moving slowly....even my 'puter.
The old Aero lives in a heated garage and feels normal driving to work...after 8 hours in sub-zero cold, it feels and drives like a brick....even the seats are hard!
I feel sorry for those of you in warmer climes that do not get to enjoy winters like this......
-5??
Hell, that ain't cold!
We had a HIGH of -29 degrees Celsius = -20.2 degrees Fahrenheit (windchill of -40 something celcius) here the other day and it's not the cold season yet.
My Aero stays in an "Unheated" garage and other than a bit of a hard ride, totally ignores the cold. (synthetic oil, of course)
I never plug her in and she never struggles to start.
I LOVE MY AERO!!!
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From: Illinois, usa
I want to drop bigmouths like al gore right in the middle of this cold wave, his mansion in TN is too far south to get a real taste.
Last night, up till 10pm I had the hose going on my new project, a F250 CNG...rolled it up just in time, by midnight it was well below freezing..but i left the truck up on the jack to let the water drain out of the bed fast, as I heard it was coming.
Now the driveway is pure ice!
Last night, up till 10pm I had the hose going on my new project, a F250 CNG...rolled it up just in time, by midnight it was well below freezing..but i left the truck up on the jack to let the water drain out of the bed fast, as I heard it was coming.
Now the driveway is pure ice!
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From: Lyndonville, Vermont
I was stationed in minot ND way back when and that place was really cold..-60 cold starting cars was a game. every where you parked had plug ins..tires were flat spotted when you drove off it felt like you were in a dozer. I'm glad I'm not there anymore.
In VT we had -25 already in the valley's. I don't get that cold cause I'm way up on a **** so the cold air sinks all around me. I must be at the right alt for that to happen.1350ft above sea level.
Dick
In VT we had -25 already in the valley's. I don't get that cold cause I'm way up on a **** so the cold air sinks all around me. I must be at the right alt for that to happen.1350ft above sea level.
Dick
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From: SoCal
Minot ND sounds a lot like Fairbanks AK, where -45F is kind of the norm for winter, but they don't normally get much winds. Usually the sky stops snowing when it gets that cold. However, one recent winter they got about 120 inches of snow in about 1 week, and it was -45 degrees most of the time. The old timers had never seen a condition like that before. Then one day, it started to warm up fast, and got to +45 in 3 days. It was the sharpest transition any of the old timers had ever seen. That 10 feet of snow that accumulated on the roof of the 8 story building I was working in started to crash down in huge chunks. It was spectacular, and a little dangerous.
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I found this beautiful winter poem and thought it might be a comfort to you. It was to me, and it's very well written.
I felt it really captured my own feelings about winter.
'WINTER'
A Poem By
Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre
S*it, It's Cold!
The End
I felt it really captured my own feelings about winter.
'WINTER'
A Poem By
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Yep, even here in Houston we are feeling the horrendous effect of global warming. Had our first snow in many years a week ago. Not much to speak off, just a couple of hours in the evening and the next day it was gone. Yesterday morning, I drove into town with the temperature at 71 deg. Cold front moved through and on the return it was 40.
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it's been mid to low 20's w icy roads here in portland, i've had to drive to and from work (portland to milwaukie) every day in this since sunday. i've had almost no problems w my aero (i'm driving my 2wd, aka the one wheel wonder, 3.0l) in this weather. it started a little slow, but so did my mom's 4l yesterday morning. yesterday i backed out of the drive way, put it in gear, and thought i was spinning on ice, but then it kind of clunked and then went into drive, i'm guessing it's just because the fluid was COLD and all of it was sitting in the back of the tranny (my driveway is slopped).
i keep chains w me, but haven't had to use them. just good tread all seasons f and r, rears half deflated. brake crazy early and go slow. rolling stops. etc.
any body have any driving problems? lol these mini beasts are awsome for winter driving.
i keep chains w me, but haven't had to use them. just good tread all seasons f and r, rears half deflated. brake crazy early and go slow. rolling stops. etc.
any body have any driving problems? lol these mini beasts are awsome for winter driving.
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I put synthetic fluid in the diff and trans earlier this year, hoping that one benefit would be less susceptible to the cold. It doesn't seem to help much, it still feels like I'm dragging an anchor when it gets the the teens and below.