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Started by Thorin, January 18, 2012, 12:24:47 AM

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Thorin

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?ab33#ab33-704cweg-076400

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Warnings

City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
9:17 PM MST Tuesday 17 January 2012
Wind chill warning for
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park continued

Wind chill values of minus 40 to 50 developing tonight and lasting through Wednesday morning.

This is a warning that extreme wind chill conditions are imminent or occurring in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements.

Cold Arctic air has invaded much of Alberta and will bring temperatures of minus 31 to 39 overnight. These temperatures combined with winds of 15 to 20 km/h will give wind chills of minus 40 to 50 in the above mentioned regions overnight into Wednesday morning.

At these extreme wind chill values frostbite on exposed skin may occur in less than 10 minutes.

Son of de bidge...

Dress real warm if you're going out.
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Lazybones

Now that is cold. I want to punch people around here when ever they complain.

Thorin

So cold that the heater in the Suburban on full heat is blowing out cool air - sure, it's warmer than outside but it's still not warm!

Also, punching people when they complain is always a good idea.
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Mr. Analog

Hey hey hey, violence never solved anything... except every single major confrontation in human history

*cough*

Anyway, I'll be heading out today :C
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Darren Dirt

over/under on delay in Melbosa saying "quit yer whining, this is nothing, you never grew up in Mani..."?
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Darren Dirt

Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 18, 2012, 06:49:41 AM
Hey hey hey, violence never solved anything... except every single major confrontation in human history
^ paraphrased from the original book source of Heinlein's Starship Troopers?


Mornings like today = I picked a good week to not bother shaving!

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Mr. Analog

LOL

That's what I told myself today... then my beard froze
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Melbosa

 :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

I really wish I could work from home on days like this.
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Mr. Analog

Oddly enough I can, but didn't lol

I had to water the plant and I ran out of some essentials at home, so I have the added bonus of going grocery shopping after work (huzzah)

I should pick up some ice cream, it won't melt on the way home!
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Thorin

I don't think my furnace has stopped running since I woke up this morning.

Yeah, Mr. A, it was weird to hear there was anyone in the office today.  I've got a car with a broken block heater plug, so even if I eventually coaxed it to life here, I'd probably end up stranded at work at the end of the day.  And I was going to fix that, but kept procrastinating on it...
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Thorin

They're predicting a slight warming trend, and then a sudden up-tick on the weekend - -2 as a high on Sunday!  I'll believe it when it happens, weather forecasts for Alberta for five days in the future are notoriously wrong.
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Melbosa

Quote from: Thorin on January 18, 2012, 11:41:50 AM
And I was going to fix that, but kept procrastinating on it...

I know so many people whom treat their vehicles this way and then bitch (not saying you are one of them btw) about how put out they are when their vehicle breaks down and what a piece of crap it is.  Especially around this time of year.
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Mr. Analog

I'm actually pretty surprised there are as many folks in the office today as there are...

Yeah, that's the trouble with putting things off until later, later always comes :D
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Thorin

Yeah...  Well, my Chevrolet Suburban is a piece of crap.

1. The spare tire ended up seized to the vehicle due to poor design allowing road salt to corrode and rust the fasteners.  CowGirl was stuck by the side of the road with kids in the vehicle and a tow truck driver that spent over an hour trying to get the spare off.  He eventually gave up.  Good thing it was summer so they didn't freeze to death.

2. I've had my brakes done every year.  They get a horrible warp in them constantly, and I've had five brake jobs in four years.  The dealership keeps asking me how we drive, and I keep saying normal.  Seriously, this is the only car I've ever had where the rotors even warp to begin with, leave be within a year of getting them installed.  But you know, it's my fault, not the shoddy design on GM brakes (go ahead, look up the class action lawsuits against Chevrolet for their brakes).

3. My power seat has never worked quite right, even after having it serviced three times.  GM can't do electrical worth beans.

4. I've had my brakes actually freeze shut the first year we owned it.  Of course, you get it towed on a dolly to the dealership, then they bring it inside and let it sit to warm up so they don't freeze their hands working on it, then the brakes work fine.  It's weird seeing a Suburban with its rear tires not moving and its front tires doing all the work, given that a Suburban is a rear-wheel-drive / four-wheel-drive vehicle.

5. When a few light bulbs in the dash stopped working, the ones illuminating the heater controls, they couldn't replace the light bulbs.  The design is so bad they had to replace the entire heater control box, something like twelve hundred dollars according to the bill.  Good thing that got done under warranty.

6. Constant rattling from the pedal assembly during driving.  Now, I have a movable pedal assembly so that the gas and brake pedals can be moved closer or further away from the driver for more comfortable driving (a boon with CowGirl and I being a foot apart in height), and I know that assembly needs to be movable.  But really, does it have to rattle?  Apparently, it does.

7. Chevrolet dealerships don't even follow the manufacturer's guidelines for servicing.  One time I phoned up the dealership and asked for the 100k service.  They said, "What?".  So I read them all the things that are supposed to happen at 100k from the book, and they said it'd be about two thousand dollars.  TWO THOUSAND for a SERVICE.  Then they suggested I just do their $99 annual inspection and see if that found any problems.  Compare that to my Suzuki experience, where they knew exactly what needed to be done with each service and actually had a price posted for each of the different services, depending on the time it would take to do the service!

And after all that I still love driving it, especially in these conditions, especially filled with people and their gear.

And I'm not bitching about my Volvo not being ready for winter because I knew it wasn't ready - it needs the block heater plug fixed, new tires, and hatch supports.  But at the moment we're spending more than we make, as CowGirl is going back to school and not working for that time.
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Darren Dirt

Quote from: Melbosa on January 18, 2012, 11:44:01 AM
Quote from: Thorin on January 18, 2012, 11:41:50 AM
And I was going to fix that, but kept procrastinating on it...

I know so many people whom treat their vehicles this way and then bitch (not saying you are one of them btw) about how put out they are when their vehicle breaks down and what a piece of crap it is.  Especially around this time of year.

My vehicle is maintained regularly, and always warm the moment I enter it ... I gotta share it with a few hundred other folks but imo that's a small price to pay ;)
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