18 below zero yesterday

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It was cold in Iowa yesterday. I left the distribution center yesterday with a refrigerated load of produce at midnight. The thermometer read 8 below at that time. I headed north and got about 200 miles and the thermometer read 18 below.
The reefer unit jelled and quit at this point. I pulled over on a ramp and worked on it for 20 minutes with out getting it started. Way too cold to be outside doing anything.
Found a repair shop in the next town and got the mechanic out of bed. An hour later back on the road and finished my run.
If we had only listened to Al Gore years ago we would not be having this darned global warming. :rolleyes: Everyday is an adventure.
Merry Christmas to all.
 
That is cold but most you guys don't know what real cold is! Back in the old country for a while we lived outside of Yakutsk. This was in the mid 80s. We would wait for the school bus unable to put our hands down by our sides cause of the amount of layers of clothing we had. School was canceled when the temp reached -60C. There were times when the first four floors of our apt building were buried under snow. We would sometimes walk home from school and it felt like we were in a tunnel. Just huge walls of snow everywhere

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As I look on the weather right now my old city is -35C

This is what my town looked like. In the first pic you can see the plowed wall of snow on the right

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One Christmas night it was so cold in Real County, I tossed a bucket of boiling water out of the bunkhouse, and it froze before it hit the ground. I was so surprised that I had to touch the block of ice to see if it was real and it burned my fingers...turned out it froze so fast it was still red hot.:cool:
 
Arik, a place that cold would be my old country too, and the sooner the better. :confused:
 
4 below but that's normal. What isn't is the ice storm we had this weekend - temps in the teens and heavy rain, coated the vehicles with several inches of solid ice that took hours to thaw using warm water and a heat gun - thankfully we had remote starters with the heaters turned on - a birch tree in our front yard bent into the driveway and had to be removed - driveway looks like the Ross Ice Shelf and there are still people w/o power. Looks like it will stay around until the weather warms. Cold, no problem. Snowstorm, ditto. Heavy thick ice and cold temps, that's a PITA big time. Any others with this problem?
 
I check the weather at several locations every day when I get up for something to do.

Can't recall the name of the tv show, but it takes place in Tanana, Alaska and as I type this at 1:00pm their time, it's -27*F and the low last night was -35*F.

Now, that's downright chilly for me. Under Armor weather, fer sure.
 
j a said:
It was cold in Iowa yesterday. I left the distribution center yesterday with a refrigerated load of produce at midnight. The thermometer read 8 below at that time. I headed north and got about 200 miles and the thermometer read 18 below.
The reefer unit jelled and quit at this point. I pulled over on a ramp and worked on it for 20 minutes with out getting it started. Way too cold to be outside doing anything.
Found a repair shop in the next town and got the mechanic out of bed. An hour later back on the road and finished my run.
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Why bother getting the unit running unless you had to keep the temp UP in the trailer? And FWIW, if it's going to be that cold, I was not stingy with the Power Service or another fuel treatment. I used to put 2 gallons in each side with a full tank if I was going to Aroostock County.
 
Old TexMex said:
One Christmas night it was so cold in Real County, I tossed a bucket of boiling water out of the bunkhouse, and it froze before it hit the ground. I was so surprised that I had to touch the block of ice to see if it was real and it burned my fingers...turned out it froze so fast it was still red hot.:cool:
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That is why Texans are such a tough and hardy people. The Texas weather toughens us up. Especially in the southern part of the state. :D
 
I can remember being in a truck stop in Texas, on my way back to the NE, and asking about the blend on the fuel because I was going to be in cold weather long before I expected to fuel again. The clerk looked at me like a chicken watching card tricks.
 
Cold? Try going out Ice Fishing when it is 45 below! I did that once up in Northern Minnesota (milles lacs lake) . Rented an shack on the ice, it was so cold that when you go out to do (you know what) it froze the instant it hit the ice. ... Throwing out old coffee when it was hot, turned to brown ICE in mid air! Oh boy when you sleep in that 10X10 Ice Shanty the heat goes up to the roof and it is cold at bed level... Heat does not warm the room it only warms the roof! No matter how much wood you put in the wood stove. Me and my brother survived that weekend, Fishing was pretty good though but will never do it again.
Too old now and my old bones will give out on me if I did that again! Honestly it is beautiful on those bone chilling nights up North, is seems so quiet, as nothing moves all you hear is the ice cracking here and there.
 
Doug M. said:
I can remember being in a truck stop in Texas, on my way back to the NE, and asking about the blend on the fuel because I was going to be in cold weather long before I expected to fuel again. The clerk looked at me like a chicken watching card tricks.
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If the good Lord had meant for Texans to ski, he woulda made bull.... white!
 
Yes Doug M.

I was trying to keep it warm. Bananas and tomatoes need to be above 45 degrees to prevent damage. I put a quart bottle of a treatment called "Thaw" and a quart bottle of conditioner in the reefer tank. Neither helped. Diesel and cold just don't mix well.
 
70 degrees yesterday, 43 this morning when I woke up..... oh and the sun shined all day. Sorry, I had to mention it. :D
 
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