The journey into the abyss of no return

[fuzzi]

You forgot the feeling of the skin on your butt and thighs quickly freezing UNDER all the insufficient layers and its cold fingers crawling rapidly towards your bones...Grrrr, it's enough to make me crabby just thinking about it. And frozen hair and ears (that does it, now I'm crabby). And the windows randomly shattering when it got even colder at night. Life in thermals and wool socks under all the normal clothes and sweaters yet still being too cold. Ducks freezing to the ground. Nope, toasty coastal where I am is fine even if the locals are pathetic entitled weather weenies. Zero desire to be as extreme as Mr. Weldman.

Our (newer) cars would only start if they were heated garage kept or had a plug in heater thinger under these conditions. Your car must have been a well kept beast.

@Weldman , did all the locals make it out?

It was my grandmother's car, had been well maintained, and she gave it to me when she went into hospice. The Buick had NO pollution control devices, not even a pcv valve. There was just pure mechanical ability. It was 20 years old, only thing wrong was body rot due to salt. We sold it to a young man who wanted the drive train...55k original miles on it.

You had to remind me of the shooting pains I experienced in my fingers despite warm, insulated gloves. Ugg.

 

[SageHill]

Ohhh, those were the days - no heater in my first car - the heater box rusted out, driving to work in moonboots and electric socks (9 volt battery on each sock) and long down coats ruled. Might've seen -25, but definitely a lot of -20.
So now - in the land of fruits and nuts but damn the weather is nice. Guess one has to pay a price one way or another.

 

[Baymule]

I did experience -6 F degrees in Snowmeggdon of 2021 in Lindale. Plus several blizzards and ice storms. Not as severe as other parts of the country but not pleasant either. It wasn’t any fun so why would I want to live somewhere where it’s minus degrees as a normal thing?

 

[Weldman]

You forgot the feeling of the skin on your butt and thighs quickly freezing UNDER all the insufficient layers and its cold fingers crawling rapidly towards your bones...Grrrr, it's enough to make me crabby just thinking about it. And frozen hair and ears (that does it, now I'm crabby). And the windows randomly shattering when it got even colder at night. Life in thermals and wool socks under all the normal clothes and sweaters yet still being too cold. Ducks freezing to the ground. Nope, toasty coastal where I am is fine even if the locals are pathetic entitled weather weenies. Zero desire to be as extreme as Mr. Weldman.

Our (newer) cars would only start if they were heated garage kept or had a plug in heater thinger under these conditions. Your car must have been a well kept beast.

@Weldman , did all the locals make it out?

Yes they did or I should say the trash down below stayed and everyone else left.

 

[Weldman]

Time to go underground, there is no property lines or pins anywhere under there...
Eight by thirty feet.

 

[Baymule]

What is that going to be?

 

[Weldman]

What is that going to be?

Cellar

 

[fuzzi]

Cellar

What will keep it from collapsing once it's buried?

 

[Weldman]

What will keep it from collapsing once it's buried?

You drive over them everyday on highways, roads and even driveways. Just their design does that based on the profile of the metal combined with thickness.

 

[Weldman]

Business tip: You can’t win all bids, so instead of getting mad about it ask the potential client can you see the person’s bid that they accepted you want to make sure they didn’t miss anything. What that does is build a relationship with the customer that you know what you’re doing and they won’t forget that so the next time they need something done, they will think of you.

“See what I did, without noticing it of what you just read they went from potential client to customer.