Winter Fuel Additives ?

Boondox · Feb 4, 2001

Yes, isn't getting wet the pits when it's cold?!? Now and then one of my dogs will get stuck in the stream when the ice gives way and I have to go in after them. The water is so cold my bones ache! Wind is the other thing that gets me. Wet cold is the worst, then windy cold. If I'm dry and well layered and the day is still, thirty below is okay.

Pete

Yearning for a bigger tractor!

Bird · Feb 4, 2001

Ouch, Pete, you can't just throw those dogs a rope?/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif You're right, wet and cold is terrible, wind and cold is a little better, but still bad. A dry, cold, and calm day; no problem. I remember one morning in Illinois when the thermometer said -20F, no wind, and I went out, started my pickup, jump started a couple of neighbors, took one guy to the parts house to buy a new battery and helped him put it in; was out most of the morning and quite comfortable. The next morning, it had warmed up to -3F, but the wind was howling and I couldn't stand it out there.

Bird

cowboydoc · Feb 4, 2001

That's the truth Bird! I was out the other day and it was -15 and no wind and I was fine doing chores and all. The next day it had warmed up to 5 above but the wind was blowing and it was all I could do to finish chores. Where did you live in Illinois?

Bird · Feb 4, 2001

Richard, the police department sent me up to attend the Northwestern University Traffic Institite for 9 months (the school year of 1971-72) in Evanston, and we rented an apartment with an address in Des Plaines, right on the east side of I-294 and just north of Niles. I think that coldest morning, the "official" low in Chicago was -16F, but the thermometer at the apartment read -20F. I guess that was the coldest temperature I've seen personally. Even the last time I crossed from Canada into Alaska in the middle of the night, last day of March '91, it was only -5F.

Bird

Boondox · Feb 4, 2001

They're golden retrievers. All five dogs share one brain cell. Love em all, but smart they ain't!

You know, sometimes I wonder if a swig of Stanodyne would help my blood avoid gelling...

Pete

Yearning for a bigger tractor!

cowboydoc · Feb 5, 2001

Bird,
I'm west of there in the quad cities in Iowa. It's been as cold as -30 and -100 wind chills. I sure don't like the winters here at all. Looking forward to getting back to Idaho in a few years and some more temperate climate

Bird · Feb 5, 2001

I sure don't like to see our temperature go above 90, and especially don't like the 100+ days in this part of the country, but I think I can tolerate that better than the sub-freezing weather you folks have. I do seriously wonder about global warming, though. We're having the coldest winter I can remember, as far as the lows each night are concerned. "Normally" we have about a 20 degree spread from the daily low to the high, but this month it's 30 or more. In fact, it's 26 right now, but is getting over 60 every afternoon.

Bird