*Winter Survival Questions**

[elizabethann]

If you're like me, you call in sick on days like today. Heeheehee. I had a "migraine". I'm in my sweatpants with the heat cranked up, watching old movies (like ANTS and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), listening to the wind howling.

But I do have to go out with Fenway to do his business so I bundle up and look like a sausage (very attractive) in my parka, hat, mittens, scarf and boots.

I'll go to work tomorrow. But I'll have to go and start my car for about 20 minutes later on just so that it will start tomorrow morning.

Every year I say "I'm moving to Florida". I'll be visiting my brother in Port Charlotte, FL in 3 weeks. So that kind of gets me through this weather as well.

As much as I love Florida, I don't think I would like the summer's very much since I hate humidity. Where can I move where it's 70/80 all year through? Even Hawaii had a cold spell this weekend - 50's!

[BC_MoM]

All week it's been nearly -40C and lower with the windchill. Yesterday afternoon, there was no wind at -29C and I thought I was in paradise. Meterologists predict that my area of Canada has 90 more days of this weather.

I need a vacation.

[Daisy and Delilah]

Brrrrrrrrrrrr......now my teeth are chattering

[areias]

It's about 55 degrees here....during the day! Ahhhh! It's frickin cold! It's been dropping down into the low 40's at night sometimes....it was 35 last week.

We don't have to do a whole lot here.

[GreyhoundGirl]

Where I used to live (FF Soucy, one of the furthest north towns in Quebec) you would have to light a fire under your car in the winter to get it started. Funny, I guess I was so yound I didn't even wonder why!

[critter crazy]

Today we ahve had a high of 8 degrees, with a wind chill factor of -15. But all in all it is a gorgeous day! the sun is shinning!! at least it looks that way from inside!!!

[PJ's Mom]

Currently I have the windows and doors open because it's a wonderful 70 degrees. But I have to say that this topic is making me cold.

[JuniorxMyxLove]

Currently I have the windows and doors open because it's a wonderful 70 degrees. But I have to say that this topic is making me cold.

i wish it was 70 here! this morning, it was like -30! now its like -20...

school was canceled today because of the weather..good for me, ut now for my dog. I opened the door, and she went charging out. 30second later, she was back at the door, and when I let her in, she was FREEZING!

my mom's going down to florida soon...without me! I'm soo jealous of people in shorts right now!

I think I'm going to go pack on another layer - I already have 2 on, sitting inside, with the heat on. I hate the cold. I love it when its like 20 or 30, but not in the negatives!

Some of you might be living in colder places, and I'm not tying to say that its colder or worse here. But its cold. And I hate it.

[pitc9]

Well.. we're having a heat wave right now! It's up to 11 with a wind chill
of -6!
The low tonight is 4 above, yesterday our windchills were -25.
All of the schools around of were closed today because it's so cold. Most have already closed for tomorrow too!
It's cloudy and the wind is whipping the snow all over so it looks like were at the North Pole right now!
I don't mind the cold at all and I just Loooooove the snow!
I can handle temps like this for a little while it doesn't bother me too muchl!
I put a bunch of wood in the wood stove before I go to bed to keep the furnance from kicking on all night long.
I have a remote start on my car so I can start it from inside my house and it's all warm and toasty for me when I'm ready to leave!
Sierra and Bud don't mind it either (except when the winds whip the snow around her and scare her Ugh... she's such a sissy girl!)
I have to go out and bring them in quite often because if it were up to them, they'd stay out there till they were frozen to the ground!!

[Lizzie]

This thread is very helpful to me in regard to my car in cold weather. I had to park my car outside this winter for the first time since I bought my house 23 years ago, and I was really thrown on how to deal with the occasional deep freezes we have had so far. I had to learn to wipe all condensation from the door frames and seals to prevent the doors from freezing shut, and to take extra time each morning for scraping ice off windows, running the car, etc. I'd never heard of keeping my gas tank full and why, I'll remember that - thanks!

The problem with western Washington state is that we don't have to deal with very cold weather often. Some winters, it just rains and rains. In some, we get a fair bit of snow but little ice. So, when we have a week of temperatures in the single digits at night and teens in the day, nearly everyone makes an ass of themselves in one way or another.