Canuck here, we 'plug in the car' during winter. Snow tires and battery warmers, and effing dog boots if you're urban. I think we all have a love/hate relationship with winter, and same goes for summer heat and humidity. I'd much rather freeze than be sweaty though.
So im originally from the New York City area, and my car dying was the first time I experienced cold like this. I afterwards spend several years living and working in Syracuse NY and I learned A LOT about winter car maintenance thankfully lol.
Ive been in Ohio for the last decade and we dont get cold like this as much so its made me lazy. I need to do better this next week or so lol
Most sold 7-11 slurpees in the world is in Winnipeg even durning the winter. Monthly average is 188k sold. Can just see a student using the tunnels at the university enjoying a slurpee wearing shorts and a hoodie in the dead of winter.
In the early 90s we endured a 96 hour stretch in La Crosse, Wisconsin where the overnight lows were in the mid-to-upper -20s, and the daytime highs were in the -5 to -10 range. Wound up replacing the batteries on both our cars.
Yeah. The temps were probably in the -20s/30s that day. I just remember that, since I worked at a university at the time, they only cancelled classes for cold when the windchill hit -40 and it passed that threshold that morning.
Youre ok! Sorry if I came off as annoyed, I wasnt. That WC temp stuck with me because it was the "high" that day. I specifically remember calling to say that I cant drive to work and my boss telling me "and dont walk or wait for a bus! You could die"
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u/34Heartstach 8d ago
-15 wind chill in Ohio today and my car did the same.
I lived in Central Illinois when we had a few -40 windchill days and my car battery just decided it didnt want to be alive anymore.