Hey quit calling us southeners wimps I'm driving my bugeye today it's
35F and raining supposed to go down to the 20's. If I'm lucky the roads
will ice up and I get to do some slipping and sliding, lucky for me they
do not put salt on the roads here so I do not have to worry about rust.
Peter S.
Charlotte NC
>From: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
>To: "'Curtis Carlson'" <carlson@navtech.com>,
> "spridgets@autox.team.net"
> <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
>Subject: RE: The REAL wind chill......(no lbc)
>Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:40:31 -0600
>Reply-To: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
>
>Of course, some of us in Minnesota were out driving our Spridgets on
>Sunday. I think it was about six degrees. After fifteen minutes or so I
>went back home and put on the hard top. (I had been wearing a
bombardier
>hat and ski goggles - the kids in the neighborhood thought I was pretty
>goofy.) You know how you're supposed to "run it up to operating
>temperature" before you put it in storage? It takes a while when the
temps
>in the single digits. But it's real fun when there's a half-inch of
fresh
>snow on the streets.
>
>
>
>>>>>Snip Curt calling the rest of the list wimpy (of course he's from
"up
>north" and when a Minnesotan refers to something as up north he ain't
>kidding.)
>
>>>>>>Anyone from Alaska or Antarctica on the list?
>
>Mr. Colosimo from Thunder Bay used to be here - they're about 250 miles
>north of us - and they get the Lake. Brrrr.
>
>Phil Vanner
>Rust? it's too cold for chemical reactions.
>
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