It's still in the warrantee period, and Walmart won't replace it until it won't start the car, so I will see what happens in a few more days. It cranked rather slowly this morning at 14 degrees, but acted normal the rest of the day. I will try it again tomorrow at 7 AM. It should be about 15 degrees again. I have 2 other running cars to drive, but for some reason the windshield on the Honda Element hasn't needed scraping yet. The windshield wipers were still frozen to the glass on the Jeep at noon.
There have been 3 times in my life that I have been bone chilling shivering cold, all 3 of them were in Florida when I wasn't expecting or prepared for it.
There have been 3 times that I had near heat stroke. I passed out once. All 3 of those times were in Ohio. All involved dehydration.
Anyone unemployed and looking for work? -- Buffalo Bills are paying $10/hr to shovel snow for the Jets game this weekend.
A couple days back all 50 States reached the freezing point.
Here on the west coast of Canada it's 8ºC and overcast. Rather typical.
Here on the west coast of Canada it's 8ºC and overcast. Rather typical.
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Where I am in Ontario this evening they're all driving like ninnies - you'd think they were driving on ice skates in cars made of glass.
I have seen snaps of that blizzard, looks terrible ! So for a couple of day's people can not get to work until the roads are cleared.I suppose it eats into your leave at work. A couple of these and there will be no leave left for the holiday season. We do get snow here in South Africa, but only a foot or two if you are close to the mountains. Where I live we get some about every four years and then it is only an inch or so. Cold we do get but it goes down sometimes to -9 degC. The plants don't like that. We are actually fortunate here !
I wouldn't think so. There's a driving ban in place, the busses and taxis aren't running, all the tractor trailers, firetrucks, ambulances and snowplows are either stuck on the road or in the station and schools and businesses are closed. I think it's unlikely that any boss would try and blame the employees for not getting to work.
Cal, yes it makes sense to me but surely this doesn't happen very often, or does it ? Company's will loose money but nature is uncontrollable. I think it was something like 6 or 9 feet of snow overnight. Cars with heated door locks, heated seats and stuff like that we don't know about . When I went to visit in the UK , it was the first time that I have heard about double glazed windows. I think I will stay here.
So 0C in Kona interesting . More like 49 States . But that Fox news for you.
I feel the same about Fox News as many do but they only said it reached the freezing point, they didn't say below so in this case are they wrong? Have a look at the Mauna Kea chart. Cold is very common methinks.
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Buffalo is a ticking time bomb for this sort of thing. It's position on the east end of Lake Erie, is absolutely perfect for it. Cold air crossing a large body of warm water and presto! I am surprised it doesn't happen more often.
If everyone loses, is it still a loss? Besides, what company can't buffer a 3 day closure?
I've been out to Rochester and Buffalo in the winter, the only really unusual thing about this is that the snow came early and in an unusually short period of time. I remember towering snow walls (4m +) driving around Rochester in early February.
Here in Boston it is bright and sunny and +1ºC today. Yesterday morning on Hilton Head Island, S.C it was about 6ºC as I was leaving there.
George, I strongly recommend Interstate or Panasonic car batteries for good cold weather performance. (The Panasonic has an amazingly long service life IMLE.) I had a Walmart battery in my Mustang years ago and it lasted less than 2yrs.
Here in Boston it is bright and sunny and +1ºC today. Yesterday morning on Hilton Head Island, S.C it was about 6ºC as I was leaving there.
George, I strongly recommend Interstate or Panasonic car batteries for good cold weather performance. (The Panasonic has an amazingly long service life IMLE.) I had a Walmart battery in my Mustang years ago and it lasted less than 2yrs.
Horrible weather in Buffalo (and other places of course)... seen it on the news.
I hope for all you guys over there that it will improve soon!
I hope for all you guys over there that it will improve soon!
Thorough insulation, including double glazing with low-e glass, saves 30 to 40% on the aircon bill in the tropics.
At $0.40/kWh, that can go to a big number on an annual basis.
(maybe we'll have to schedule a rain check for Januari to ask how you're enjoying the weather
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Wed. low of 46f on the mountain 56f in Honolulu still not 32f (0c) even above 8000ft at the summit tonight about mid 40 . It is rather cold for the south pacific thou.
You don't want to live in an island nation in general, up to .99 in some !? Here we have a 41 family bulk buy from the grid at ~.10.
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Here in the UK we have lost generating capacity due to fire as well as lack of investment.
Back at the end of July coal fired Ferybridge power station went on fire during summer repairs.
Then about 4 weeks ago gas fired Didcot B lost half of its capacity to fire in the cooling fans.
As far as brown-outs go we were talking about them before Didcot B went up in flames and this got us all chatting again.
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Back at the end of July coal fired Ferybridge power station went on fire during summer repairs.
Then about 4 weeks ago gas fired Didcot B lost half of its capacity to fire in the cooling fans.
As far as brown-outs go we were talking about them before Didcot B went up in flames and this got us all chatting again.
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