It got below freezing yesterday. I had to rotate the rabbits water dishes because they were frozen solid.

I Changed the fuel filter on my Mitsubishi Montero plow truck/winter driver yesterday and got my hands really cold even with rubber gloves on when the gas touched them.

The first cold weather is always so shocking. In a few weeks I will be going out in a sweatshirt in this weather.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I feel your pain. I'm cursed with cold hands too. There isn't a glove made that will truly warm my fingertips when it gets around freezing. We're having bone dry cold mornings that hover right around the 30 degree mark and shirtsleeve blue bird days approaching 80. No geese have appeared yet, my marker for the true start and end of winter. It's not right, but I'll take it straight through till March if I can get it. Who cares how much hay I'll have to buy next spring?

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When its really cold only mittens will do the trick.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Below freezing this morning in NC as well - an ice sheet over the top of all the water buckets and bowls. Getting about time to crawl under the house and shut off the water to the remote faucets at the barn and storage shed on the back side of the property for the season.

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Its going to hit 100 f here on Wednesday & its not summer yet.

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Eat chit.... it's cold here in Korntucky.

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Below freezing? It hasn't been ABOVE freezing since Thursday night.

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All you fellows are quite a bit further south than the canadian maritimes. First skim of ice on puddles the last two nights locally. Predicted 60 percent chance of snowflurries this coming week. Drove through moderate fog late last night to join the wife at the cottage. I mentioned to the wife this afternoon that I think real winter is not far off now.

Do you live in Nova Scotia or New Founland?

My good friend's mother, who is in her 90's, was born in Nova Scotia and told me stories of walking on top of huge drifts of snow piled high along the sides of the roads

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Nova Scotia. The weather here is somewhat warmer and moderate compared to Newfoundland.

She was not lying as even the wife remembers being able to touch wires if you wanted to do it was possible when she was a child. The climate change that currently raises it's head had already occured here some years ago.

Many winters you could get by without snow tires now. It would not be wise but possible. Currently or at least for a lot of recent winters.

It is much much worse on the american eastern seaboard to the south of us than here now. I am nor quite sure why this has occured or heard a description of why. Yet it has.

My guess is that it may have to do with the gulf stream in some way changing. Yes the old girl was certainly being accurate. Something like that today would tie us up into knots as all the really heavy snowplows where retired and never replaced. They would have to bring in heavy construction equipment today to deal with the type of snow storm they used to have. Even wedge plows where still around here thirty years ago.

The danger today is black ice. White outs are not as common but another danger. We live next to a large flat marsh area locally that is still closed if the wind is pushing enough snow across it in the air to eliminate visability.

id kill for some snow about now. i spent all last winter working in the snow. it was so nice. this year im stuck in the valley

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We're starting to see consistent nights below freezing here.

This winter I should actually have a garage for the first time in almost 10 years...
As I am with my goat friend in the cold finger department, I will really be enjoying the opportunity to work on that-which-must-be-repaired in the relative warmth of the garage.

Not sure I would be cut out for any location colder than here unless it was mountainous and snowy... Once I strap on the skis, I quit feeling the cold.

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1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Lucky SOB's all of you. I'm still waiting for Summer to end. At least during the day. It is rather nice around evening now though I must admit.

- Peter.

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1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

I'll box you up some cold air and send it south....

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1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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