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[sycamore PE]

It was 65 deg outside

 

[akwooly]

-19 still feels cold until you hit -40

 

[akwooly]

Then when you hit -19 it feels like a heat wave.

 

[sycamore PE]

Next day, we drove to WI, where there was snow and the temp was in the single digits.

 

[sycamore PE]

-19 feels like your eyeballs are going to pop out of their sockets to me.

 

[akwooly]

-40 everything hurts

 

[akwooly]

Can't imagine 65 in December.

 

[sycamore PE]

Anyway, we like WI, but that first winter here was quite a change from the south. My husband and I are both northerners, but from regions that are not nearly as cold as Wisconsin

 

[blybrook PE]

You haven't lived until you've had a week of -40 or colder. I drive the ol' Scout at those temps without a good heater and the windows down; primary truck will gel up...

 

[blybrook PE]

Then warming up to anything above -20 is t shirt weather

 

[sycamore PE]

Yeah, it was funny for me to see Christmas decorations up with no snow.

 

[blybrook PE]

That happened the other tear when I visited Denver for the holidays

 

[blybrook PE]

*year

 

[akwooly]

Cummins not like -40?

 

[sycamore PE]

In TN, our house was heated by a heat pump. The auxiliary electric heat was never hooked up right, so it didn't work. Because it doesn't get very cold there, no one noticed the lack of heat until one "cold snap" when it got down to about 20 deg outside and the heat pump couldn't keep up. Repairman got it fixed and said "this thing's never had auxiliary heat"

 

[akwooly]

My dodge is my camper hauler so the cummins gets a break over the winter

 

[sycamore PE]

The house had been through 3-4 winters with only a heat pump for heat

 

[akwooly]

Wisconsin cheese

 

[akwooly]

Week of -40 is hard on everything. Boiler is burning non stop. You hope you never lose power or you boiler takes a dump.

 

[akwooly]

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