*Winter Survival Questions**

[Daisy and Delilah]

Sounds like a great idea!!! lol lol lol Please collect enough money for all the winter clothing I'll need to make this trip and not freeze to death within minutes. Can I bring some other Floridians with me?? Any takers?

Terry makes a shopping list.......3 wool parkas, 5 bulky sweaters, 3 pairs of those pants Glacier mentioned, 2 pairs of snow boots...........where do I buy all this stuff? I don't think they sell it here in Florida As a matter of fact, I don't think they sell anything wool here. A wool blanket is a collectors item Oh yea, I can't forget wardrobes for the girls too

[K9soul]

LOL Well I'm not necessarily a brave soul... after all it's a nice comfy 72 degrees in my office . I let it get down to about 63-65ish at night but I have a nice warm comforter and three snuggly dogs . Having the right "gear" is the secret to survival though that's for sure! The plow trucks here are gigantic too compared to the little ones where I grew up. But they haven't had to plow much this year!

[ramanth]

Living in MI, I'm not confined to the house when the temps get cold. Like MN and OH, it got down to the -20's with the windchill Sunday and Monday. I still leave the house to go to work or run errands.

Kia loves to be out in it, but I'm finding the Chipper doesn't like to be out for longer than 15 minutes. He starts to cry and hop from foot to foot, so we've been keeping trips outside short.

I love snow and playing in it, but don't care for the single digits and the negative windchill numbers.

Like everyone else, I just let the car run longer before driving off to give the engine time to properly warm up. I've never had to plug any of my cars in though.

[Catlady711]

When I woke up this morning our thermometer said -6°F, wind chill was -20°F! Many of the area schools delayed for 2 hours, although I though that was pointless as the HIGH temp today was still in the single digits!

I had to warm up the car for 20 minutes and it still wasn't really warm inside, and still had snow on the floorboard leftover from a short errand I took yesterday!!

I don't like cold, but what makes it worse is that until recently we'd been having ABOVE avg. temps so we didn't get a normal gradual introduction to winter weather like we should. We sorta skipped right from late summer to winter!

I stay inside alot and bundle up really good before I go out.

BTW, NEVER pour hot water over a frozen car door to unstick it unless you can open it FAST! I did that once with my first car and couldn't get it open before it froze even worse! Bad thing was my mom's car was in FRONT of mine in the single driveway, so neither of us could get out for school or work that morning even though we could get the passenger door open on hers.

Ahhh, the joys of learning your winter lessons! LOL

[chocolatepuppy]

Terry makes a shopping list.......3 wool parkas, 5 bulky sweaters, 3 pairs of those pants Glacier mentioned, 2 pairs of snow boots...........where do I buy all this stuff? I don't think they sell it here in Florida As a matter of fact, I don't think they sell anything wool here. A wool blanket is a collectors item Oh yea, I can't forget wardrobes for the girls too

Don't forget socks, the more the better! I layer them too!