22 Fahrenheit is not a heat wave
22 degrees fahrenheit is not a heat wave, but up here in Wisconsin lately it seems like it would be (today it was 1 F, -17 C for metric people). Here is my recent adventure with the sub freezing temperatures:
The night before flying home for Christmas I was at work late (till 12:30 am) trying to get a decent amount done before I left on break. I went out to my car to drive home and the battery would have nothing to do with turning the engine over. (It was 2 F at the time). I ran the battery down trying to start my car, and then for some reason I decided to try push starting my car on my own. I managed to push my car about 2 metres into the parking lot, and realized there was no hope. All my energy sapped, and now feeling numbness in my extremeties, I couldn't get my car back into its parking space, so I locked it and left it, and headed back to work. Once at work I called a cab and got home. In the morning I got the bus back to work (flashing a wallet with no bus card to board the bus, and the conductor didn't even notice) and had AAA jump start my car. I managed to get my car back home and parked it on a hill facing down so as to be able to easily push start the car when I returned from vacation and the conference three weeks later...
...so the three weeks went by and I got an appointment at the dealership to have my spent and dead battery replaced. Out I went to my car with my sister to give it a bit of a shove down the hill so I could jump start it and drive to the dealership. After prying the doors open (which were frozen shut), and scraping off a sheet of ice on both the outside and the inside of my windshield, I put the car into gear, pushed in the clutch, and had Lan put all her weight behind the car. No movement. She pushed more, again not a budge. We gave up, obtained some jumper cables, and boosted the car with Lan's car. Once the engine was spluttering along (which took about 3 minutes to finally turn over), I put my car into gear and tried to move the car. She wouldn't budge. I accelerated more, and with a loud pop she finally leapt forward. The breaks or axel or something had been frozen solid! Has anybody ever heard of such a thing?! Who, in their founding-father's mind, establishes a metropolis where it gets so cold that mechanical parts will freeze together from the freezing rain. Please people, have some decency! That's it, I'm sick of this country! I'm moving to Canada!!.........
The night before flying home for Christmas I was at work late (till 12:30 am) trying to get a decent amount done before I left on break. I went out to my car to drive home and the battery would have nothing to do with turning the engine over. (It was 2 F at the time). I ran the battery down trying to start my car, and then for some reason I decided to try push starting my car on my own. I managed to push my car about 2 metres into the parking lot, and realized there was no hope. All my energy sapped, and now feeling numbness in my extremeties, I couldn't get my car back into its parking space, so I locked it and left it, and headed back to work. Once at work I called a cab and got home. In the morning I got the bus back to work (flashing a wallet with no bus card to board the bus, and the conductor didn't even notice) and had AAA jump start my car. I managed to get my car back home and parked it on a hill facing down so as to be able to easily push start the car when I returned from vacation and the conference three weeks later...
...so the three weeks went by and I got an appointment at the dealership to have my spent and dead battery replaced. Out I went to my car with my sister to give it a bit of a shove down the hill so I could jump start it and drive to the dealership. After prying the doors open (which were frozen shut), and scraping off a sheet of ice on both the outside and the inside of my windshield, I put the car into gear, pushed in the clutch, and had Lan put all her weight behind the car. No movement. She pushed more, again not a budge. We gave up, obtained some jumper cables, and boosted the car with Lan's car. Once the engine was spluttering along (which took about 3 minutes to finally turn over), I put my car into gear and tried to move the car. She wouldn't budge. I accelerated more, and with a loud pop she finally leapt forward. The breaks or axel or something had been frozen solid! Has anybody ever heard of such a thing?! Who, in their founding-father's mind, establishes a metropolis where it gets so cold that mechanical parts will freeze together from the freezing rain. Please people, have some decency! That's it, I'm sick of this country! I'm moving to Canada!!.........
1 Comments:
yay canada! if you were to pick a warmer place -- like a beach in southeast asia -- that'd be a whole 'nother batch of problems.... gosh even having a car there would be an issue.
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