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Old shit can from Florida...lol.
Id bet that sucker would fire right up in -30...lol
Looks to be in nice shape too!..I think they had 360's
Too Cold, **** Chicago Suburbs.
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Id bet that sucker would fire right up in -30...lol
Looks to be in nice shape too!..I think they had 360's
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Most vehicles won't fire up at -30 if they have been sitting 12 hours or more. The ones that do it's very hard on the engine and decreases it's life because of slow lubrication in the first few minutes. We use engine block heaters that warm and circulate the antifreeze, electric heating plate on the oil pan cover under the vehicle and heating plate under the battery and electric battery blanket also. The roads here have a layer of 1-2" of ice on them all winter. We use winter tires with hundreds of carbide studs in them. 4wd trucks and suvs are the preferred vehicle. Front wheel drive cars work on some roads. Rear wheel drive vehicles don't work at all in winter here.
The people in Alaska are laughing pretty hard at your reactions down there to below zero weather. School and work is never cancelled up here no matter how cold it is. Even this dog in the picture who is laying his balls on the ice at -62 is grinning
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All i see is 2.42 a gallon
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This picture is 5 or 6 years old, gas is $3.62 today.
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Most vehicles won't fire up at -30 if they have been sitting 12 hours or more. The ones that do it's very hard on the engine and decreases it's life because of slow lubrication in the first few minutes. We use engine block heaters that warm and circulate the antifreeze, electric heating plate on the oil pan cover under the vehicle and heating plate under the battery and electric battery blanket also. The roads here have a layer of 1-2" of ice on them all winter. We use winter tires with hundreds of carbide studs in them. 4wd trucks and suvs are the preferred vehicle. Front wheel drive cars work on some roads. Rear wheel drive vehicles don't work at all in winter here.
The people in Alaska are laughing pretty hard at your reactions down there to below zero weather. School and work is never cancelled up here no matter how cold it is. Even this dog in the picture who is laying his balls on the ice at -62 is grinning
It’s obviously different when you are used to dealing with it day in and day out. It’s supposed to get into the upper 30’s this weekend. Long periods of below zero weather just don’t happen all that much here.
It’s the same when we mid-westerners laugh at the southern states for shutting down when they get an inch of snow.
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Southern state drivers would kill themselves in the snow. Well, lets clarify. Southern Louisianas would. Northern Louisiana usually get some form of snow.
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When the first winter ice/snow roads start each winter here there is a high percentage of the drivers that have to relearn how to drive in these conditions again. Dumbasses can't remember how to drive on ice.
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Where do you reside in Alaska?
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Most vehicles won't fire up at -30 if they have been sitting 12 hours or more. The ones that do it's very hard on the engine and decreases it's life because of slow lubrication in the first few minutes. We use engine block heaters that warm and circulate the antifreeze, electric heating plate on the oil pan cover under the vehicle and heating plate under the battery and electric battery blanket also. The roads here have a layer of 1-2" of ice on them all winter. We use winter tires with hundreds of carbide studs in them. 4wd trucks and suvs are the preferred vehicle. Front wheel drive cars work on some roads. Rear wheel drive vehicles don't work at all in winter here.
The people in Alaska are laughing pretty hard at your reactions down there to below zero weather. School and work is never cancelled up here no matter how cold it is. Even this dog in the picture who is laying his balls on the ice at -62 is grinning
No offense intended to you, but I never get this argument that essentially says "Oh something is bad for you, well somewhere something else is worse for someone else" and the implication being that what is bad for you is thus.... not bad? I mean I get making fun of people around Chicago who are being pusses about the cold, lol I am making fun of much of my family for it, I just never got that attempt at argument in any context.
My old boss used to use this argument all the time whenever someone brought up a complaint.... I once complained I didn't like that I had to treat my 30 year old co-worker like a child and he countered with "Well when I was a teenager I worked a consulting company (which is bullshit) and I had to deal with people two or three times as old as me in the same way". Now even if this were true, how does it make my complaint any less valid?
Its cold.... well its colder somewhere else
Its hot.... well its hotter somewhere else
My leg is cut off.... well someone else is missing more limbs somewhere else
I am being murdered.... well someone else is being murdered in a more gruesome way somewhere else.
Lol sorry for the long post, but does anyone get how this argument can be logically sound?
-30 degrees is really fucking cold here.... -62 is just even more cold there, right?
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OK..Did ya see the "LOL" after the -30..It was a way of making a point.Most vehicles won't fire up at -30 if they have been sitting 12 hours or more. The ones that do it's very hard on the engine and decreases it's life because of slow lubrication in the first few minutes. We use engine block heaters that warm and circulate the antifreeze, electric heating plate on the oil pan cover under the vehicle and heating plate under the battery and electric battery blanket also. The roads here have a layer of 1-2" of ice on them all winter. We use winter tires with hundreds of carbide studs in them. 4wd trucks and suvs are the preferred vehicle. Front wheel drive cars work on some roads. Rear wheel drive vehicles don't work at all in winter here.
The people in Alaska are laughing pretty hard at your reactions down there to below zero weather. School and work is never cancelled up here no matter how cold it is. Even this dog in the picture who is laying his balls on the ice at -62 is grinning
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Let them laugh. Bring on the 80's this weekend.
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I know a couple of people that do this all the time. No matter what problem you are having, they are having some worse problem.
Me: I’m pretty tired. I only slept about 6 hours last night.
Them: I only got 2 hours!
Me: I’m getting hungry. I had a light lunch.
Them: I haven’t eaten in the last 24 hours!
Me: I’m pretty tired. I only slept about 6 hours last night.
Them: I only got 2 hours!
Me: I’m getting hungry. I had a light lunch.
Them: I haven’t eaten in the last 24 hours!
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lol, I have friends like that. From a personal standpoint, I never understand how a person can go so long without thinking that they should go eat. I have many friends who don't eat breakfast or lunch, only eat dinner and then snack throughout the evening (they are also all overweight go figure). Then I got friends who don't go to bed until 4 am every night then wake up at 6 am. And use the excuse "Sleep is for the weak"...no usually the weakest people are the ones who do not sleep.
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Lol exactly and this thought process both proves nothing nor does it solve anything....
Now if you were to go to someone who had 2 hours of sleep and say, hey man I need you to cover for me at work today cause I am too tired to work, I only had 6 hours of sleep and they came back and said, "Listen I only had 2 hours of sleep, if I am working then you are working" then right there you have a valid argument from the person because the dispute is whether you are going to work or not.... but in general people try to argue bad isn't bad because there exists something worse...
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In my case it’s almost like a “one-upness” in reverse. No matter how bad your problems are, mine are worse.
The thing I don’t understand is that the person that complains about never getting any sleep is retired. Yet somehow they always have some vague “work” that needs to be done which requires them staying up until the wee hours of the morning.
This same person constantly says they are broke yet has no house/car payments and came up with $10K in cash to buy a camping trailer.
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Give it a rest with all your psychoanalysis. I know what I said and I know all stuff you can say in rebuttal. So what?
It's just some people who are mostly good at not freezing to death in the dark laughing at people who haven't learned the proper methods for not freezing to death in the dark. Except for anyone getting injured or deaths because of the cold down there, all the rest is good for a laugh to people here. So what?
It's just some people who are mostly good at not freezing to death in the dark laughing at people who haven't learned the proper methods for not freezing to death in the dark. Except for anyone getting injured or deaths because of the cold down there, all the rest is good for a laugh to people here. So what?
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Southcentral Alaska. At the base of this mountain on a big river in one of those avalanche chutes on the left
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Lol, I ask because my sister lived in Anchorage for three years (2010-2013) and I've gone there 3 times and gone quite a bit all over the place in Southcentral.Southcentral Alaska. At the base of this mountain on a big river in one of those avalanche chutes on the left
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Yes that mountain is 45 miles NE of Anchorage in the Knik River valley. The banana belt of Alaska, even though we get out share of 20- 30-40 below it doesn't last for weeks and months on end like the rest of the state to the north.