[Coco] Fest Weekend
L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Thu Apr 5 12:55:46 EDT 2007
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.
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L. Curtis Boyle
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