Get ready for Sunday&Monday.....

[SoonerP226]

The AAA lady just said that "vehicles aren't designed to work in these temperatures"........................................

A friend of mine who's a retired engineer from Ford would probably tell her that she doesn't know what she's talking about. He spent a heck of a lot of time in Canada at Yellowknife doing cold weather testing (their average high for January is -6.9*F) on cars that "aren't designed to work in these temperatures."

 

[rockchalk06]

The AAA lady just said that "vehicles aren't designed to work in these temperatures"........................................

Yet somehow folks live and own vehicles north of us????

Probably the same lady who says if you park facing north at night, your radiator will explode

 

[dennishoddy]

During the coldest months in Korea we never shut our vehicles off. They ran 24/7 until the temps would start climbing to 0 degrees when they could be shut off and restarted.
I understand the vehicles used on the Alaskan pipeline construction project did the same.

 

[MacFromOK]

WHISKEY FRUITCAKE

Ingredients

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
4 large eggs
2 cup dried fruit
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup brown sugar
lemon juice
nuts
1 750ml bottle fine whiskey

Instructions
Sample the whiskey to check for quality. Take a large bowl. Check the
whiskey again to be sure that it is of the highest quality.

Pour 1 level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer; beat 1 cup
butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add 1 teaspoon sugar and beat again. Make sure the whiskey is still okay.
Cry another tup. Turn off the mixer. Break two legs and add to the bowl and
chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it
loose with a drewscriver. Sample the whiskey to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift 2 cups of salt. Or something. Who cares. Check the whiskey. Now
sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Spoon. Of sugar or
something. Whatever you can find.

Grease the oven. Turn the cake tin to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off
the turner. Throw the bowl out of the window. Check the whiskey again. Go to
bed. Who likes fruitcake anyway?

 

[SlugSlinger]

I’m ready!
Smoked chops today, ribeye tomorrow for Valentine’s Day.

 

[SoonerP226]

During the coldest months in Korea we never shut our vehicles off. They ran 24/7 until the temps would start climbing to 0 degrees when they could be shut off and restarted.
I understand the vehicles used on the Alaskan pipeline construction project did the same.

I have an aunt who has lived in Alaska since before I was born. When I told her that a friend of mine was looking into a law enforcement job on the North Slope, she told me if folks up there want their vehicles to start in the morning during the winter, they don't turn them off at night.

That's too dang cold for this ol' boy.

 

[SoonerP226]

WHISKEY FRUITCAKE

Ingredients

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
4 large eggs
2 cup dried fruit
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup brown sugar
lemon juice
nuts
1 750ml bottle fine whiskey

Instructions
Sample the whiskey to check for quality. Take a large bowl. Check the
whiskey again to be sure that it is of the highest quality.

Pour 1 level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer; beat 1 cup
butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add 1 teaspoon sugar and beat again. Make sure the whiskey is still okay.
Cry another tup. Turn off the mixer. Break two legs and add to the bowl and
chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it
loose with a drewscriver. Sample the whiskey to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift 2 cups of salt. Or something. Who cares. Check the whiskey. Now
sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Spoon. Of sugar or
something. Whatever you can find.

Grease the oven. Turn the cake tin to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off
the turner. Throw the bowl out of the window. Check the whiskey again. Go to
bed. Who likes fruitcake anyway?

"Did you dig up Abraham Lincoln with that one?" he asks, having LOL'd anyway.

 

[FrankNmac]

We lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, for 3 years back in the early 1970's when my Dad was stationed at Ft. Wainwright while in the Army.

Vehicles had after-market engine block heaters where we plugged our maroon Ford Galaxie 500 in to an electric hitching post-like device. Without them, engines would not have proper lubrication and would seize or otherwise be damaged.

There were at least a couple of vehicles in our area that had steering wheels crack from drivers getting in without warming the vehicle up and pulling too hard on the wheel.

Tires got so cold they would be flatter on the bottom when you started driving and bump along, kind of like the Flintstone's rock tires.

It would get so cold we got "ice fog" where the moisture in the air froze, resulting in almost no visibility.

School was not canceled unless it was -50 degrees or colder.

In January of 1971 it got down to -60 degrees.
Didn't bother me because I was a teenager and too cool with my coat and rock and roll boots to care!

 

[DavidMcmillan]

Way back in 1969, as I was graduating from college, I interviewed with a firm in Madison Wisconsin. When I discovered all those "hitching post outlets" in the parking lot, I knew Wisconsin was no place for anyone from Oklahoma.

 

[MacFromOK]

"Did you dig up Abraham Lincoln with that one?" he asks, having LOL'd anyway.

Lol, the irony is that I really do like fruitcake...