14-01-2024, 06:23 PM
Snow I don't mind, but when mother nature sends extreme arctic air to make brass monkeys take notice, it becomes an issue.
We've been experiencing extreme cold for the last five days with a possible end in sight in three days. If your modern car hasn't got a immersion heater (block heater ) in the engine you haven't a chance of having the car start. Square tires, ultra stiff steering, hard brakes and dead batteries, along with heaters that can barely cope are the order of the day. The roads are supper slick with compacted polished snow on them that road grit and salt have no effect on. Intersections become extremely hazardous such that you can't get traction to start from a stand still or get enough to stop.
Oh, and the temperature? Approaching minus 40 C or 40 below zero F/ !!!
Solution is to stay home dress warmly and enjoy hot tea etc.
Frozen in the great white north,
Stephen
We've been experiencing extreme cold for the last five days with a possible end in sight in three days. If your modern car hasn't got a immersion heater (block heater ) in the engine you haven't a chance of having the car start. Square tires, ultra stiff steering, hard brakes and dead batteries, along with heaters that can barely cope are the order of the day. The roads are supper slick with compacted polished snow on them that road grit and salt have no effect on. Intersections become extremely hazardous such that you can't get traction to start from a stand still or get enough to stop.
Oh, and the temperature? Approaching minus 40 C or 40 below zero F/ !!!
Solution is to stay home dress warmly and enjoy hot tea etc.
Frozen in the great white north,
Stephen