[Coco] Fest Weekend

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:25:37 -0600, Gene Heskett  
<gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:


> On Thursday 05 April 2007, Brian Blake wrote:

>> People are freaking out down here. Supposed to get down to 30 again

>> Saturday night. Been in the 80's/60's for three weeks. I guess most

>> thought summer was here :D.

>>

>> Myself, I love it. Being from Ohio, 30 is nothing...

>

> That depends on which side of zero the 30F is.  I got up one February

> morning in Rapid City SD back in the mid-60's and wound up taking my

> hunting truck to work, nothing else would even think of starting.  A

> thermometer nailed to a tree about 10 feet from where the pickup normally

> sat said -39F.  Dressed for it at 5AM, it didn't feel that cold, till I

> tried to stir that stick shift into the next gear.  It had 50W CMO oil in

> it, which just wiped itself out of the way like so much clay, no oil

> pressure and a slight rod knock for the first mile, so it didn't get

> pushed for rpms, just enough to get it to move.  But I got to Skyline

> Drive and put KOTA on the air on time that morning...

>

> After that, cold is relative.  30 is warm in some locales.

>


   Yep. it's +19F here right now, and we hit -40F usually at least once a  
year.

-- 
L. Curtis Boyle