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Walter Oobleck

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Neesy said:
Same here in Winnipeg (about the block heaters I mean). Your engine block can actually crack if it gets cold enough and you don't plug your block heater in. :cold:
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That can happen in Florida, as well...cracked blocks, popped freeze plugs. Happened to me...this old '74 Le Mans...left it there and rode w/a friend who was moving back to Flint, holidays, took the bus home from Flint. Get back after the holidays, start up the car, dummy light comes on. Freeze plugs. I was lucky...some had cracked blocks...in North Florida.
The Hawkeyes played at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville that year...frozen pipes, toilets a no-go at best, a foul mess. Then...there was the time it snowed when I was in Baton Rouge...heard all this gleeful screaming...pile of Vietnamese living in the same building...in the ghetto...as the song has it. They were making snowmen...w/anatomically correct appendages...honeymoon appendages.
 
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Walter Oobleck said:
That can happen in Florida, as well...cracked blocks, popped freeze plugs. Happened to me...this old '74 Le Mans...left it there and rode w/a friend who was moving back to Flint, holidays, took the bus home from Flint. Get back after the holidays, start up the car, dummy light comes on. Freeze plugs. I was lucky...some had cracked blocks...in North Florida.
The Hawkeyes played at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville that year...frozen pipes, toilets a no-go at best, a foul mess. Then...there was the time it snowed when I was in Baton Rouge...heard all this gleeful screaming...pile of Vietnamese living in the same building...in the ghetto...as the song has it. They were making snowmen...w/anatomically correct appendages...honeymoon appendages.
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Were the cracked blocks because the antifreeze wasn't strong enough?
 
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Hi guys, here in Manchester Uk, its wet and cold, and wet, oh yeah and wet and before it was wet and the forecast for later is wet :( we like to call it drizzle around these parts, because its not really raining but a sort of grey mist, ahhhh what I would give for actual snow, or sun, hailstones even, anything that aint grey or drizzly ha ha ha x
 
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loobylou said:
Hi guys, here in Manchester Uk, its wet and cold, and wet, oh yeah and wet and before it was wet and the forecast for later is wet :( we like to call it drizzle around these parts, because its not really raining but a sort of grey mist, ahhhh what I would give for actual snow, or sun, hailstones even, anything that aint grey or drizzly ha ha ha x
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We've been wet all week . . .and all year. It's different because I'm in the South of the USA. Over the last few days we've been in the 70s . . .even in the South that's a record temp for December.

I have a feeling that we are going to have a major ice storm before winter's over.

. . .I'm ready.
 
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A little town near this city was the coldest place on earth this evening. That happened to me several years ago...being caught in the coldest place. It was December and I had worked the evening shift at La Boheme doing dinner reservations. I went outside and just missed the bus. Like a fool, I walked almost three blocks in that weather. It got scary. I will never do something like that again. It was late and there was not a soul around. I thought my breath would stop.
 
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Stepped back inside from moving snow around w/the scarper and the snowblower...took about? an hour? Also shoveled out the back of my pickup as it had 2 yards of snow in it, blew that pile up on the bank. It is 9F...about -12/13/C...feels like -11/F and I worked up a sweat. Who needs gyms? Paper says we've had 22" of snow to-date, but that is misleading, as snow depth can vary from one spot to the next. In a bit I'm going to go dig my snowmobile...Polaris Indy long-track...a big heavy beast but it's what I have to work with...and after putting it in the back of the pickup, I'll head out to the Point and unload it...go fetch my trail-camera...maybe do a little muzzle-loading/hunting. By the time I get there, though, I suspect I will be wet from sweat again and I won't feel like hunting. I wish I could drive down that seasonal road...not plowed...but after attempting an entry from the south yesterday...and then going around to the north end where nobody has been...figured the snowmobile is the way to go...that and snowshoes. It's a work-out.
Happy Independence Day...some locals celebrate here, too.
@Jojo87
 
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Stay warm and safe everyone. We're a balmy 6F, if you're standing in the sun. It's windy too so I'm sure the wind chill is well below 0. But the air is shimmering with frost, the pines are loaded with 6 inches of snow and the rest of the trees have ice coating their branches so they sparkle and twinkle in the sun. Really quite beautiful. From inside my house.:biggrin2:
 
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