OT: Weather

[Mr Tadakichi]

>have antifreeze
>it freezes

THANKS OBAMA!

 

[Senor Catface]

>have antifreeze
>it freezes

THANKS OBAMA!

THE SCIENCE WAS WRONG!

 

[oobga]

How much gas does a car use if you just leave it running all night? Anyone know?

Including the tickets for idling to calculate your costs?

 

[XXIV97]

I didn't even go to university today since I only had one class (calculus).

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Including the tickets for idling to calculate your costs?

They give tickets for that now?

 

[oobga]

They give tickets for that now?

Edmonton issues first tickets for excessive idling in a neighbourhood

I think it's only against bylaws if it's above freezing though I'd love to see someone going around in -35 trying to count idle times for cars.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Edmonton issues first tickets for excessive idling in a neighbourhood

I think it's only against bylaws if it's above freezing though I'd love to see someone going around in -35 trying to count idle times for cars.

Had no idea. Yeah that bylaw enforcement officer would get his or her lights punched out trying to make people turn their vehicles off in these temps.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

Haha you just described me.

And than you catch a cold and spread it throughout our household and work.

 

[snag]

Been working from home this week....my new diesel truck happily snoring in the heated garage. I throw on a t-shirt and pair of shorts and login from my office in the basement. Wife and daughter get ready and bundle up...wife takes daughter to school and then goes to work.

Suckers.

 

[Drivesaitl]

This is a must read, and suitable for this thread as it tells the story of our energy usage in these cold snaps and exactly what that energy is. Also to keep in mind that we are on level 2 emergency energy usage in the province at this time. level 3 would be some required outages. The system is tapped AND we are importing energy. Think about that occurring in Alberta.

David Staples: On our coldest days, where would we be without the miracle of fossil fuels?

On Tuesday, with a daytime high of -30 C, the Reliable Energy twitter account, which tracks Alberta’s sources of electrical power generation, reported: “At this moment 95.44% of Alberta’s electricity is being produced by fossil fuels. Wind is at 2.98% of capacity and producing 0.51% of total generation, while solar is at 0.00% of capacity and producing 0.000% of total generation. At the same time we are importing 852 MW.

Wow Solar and wind energy, absolutely useless when you most need it. Stick this in as counter argument when somebody starts mouthing off about dirty Oil and our RELIANCE on fossil fuels. In this climate we would be dead without it. Which I guess would reduce our eco footprint...

heres the article about our current peaked out energy usage;

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/record-...tivates-emergency-alerts-in-alberta-1.4766805

 

[T-Funk]

Let's destroy the earth the other 51 weeks of the year because we use fossil fuels at -30. Quality David Staples as usual.

 

[RalphKing]

Including the tickets for idling to calculate your costs?

No one will know . It's in a garage not on the street.

 

[ThePhoenixx]

Let's destroy the earth the other 51 weeks of the year because we use fossil fuels at -30. Quality David Staples as usual.

Yeah. We only use our furnaces one week out of the year when it hits -30....because even then, that only happens once, right?

I really have to hold my tongue here...er...or is that fingers?

 

[snag]

Yeah. We only use our furnaces one week out of the year when it hits -30....because even then, that only happens once, right?

I really have to hold my tongue here...er...or is that fingers?

The carbon tax is back. Anyone doesn't like how I spend my money, they can f*** off.

 

[nexttothemoon]

-42 before any windchill here right now... -48 with the windchill.

Feel sorry for the animals that have to go through this.

I'm at my dad's during this cold stretch and he loves to sit in front of the wood stove and feel the +40 weather in the house.

 

[94 Oil Drops]

Well good thing I got a free car battery replacement a couple days ago. Let's just say that driving to work at 5:30 am today sucked. It was a foggy, snowy commute. I was on 97th Street traveling up towards the Henday and I couldn't even see the intersection traffic lights unless I got really close. It was so bad that I began to think I'd make it alive.

 

[doulos]

Let's destroy the earth the other 51 weeks of the year because we use fossil fuels at -30. Quality David Staples as usual.

It's hopeless. I am pretty much convinced humans are going to annihilate themselves through sheer stupidity.

 

[nexttothemoon]

-44 this morning... nevermind the windchill.

Looks like the weather is going to start changing this weekend and it'll be tropical next week. Had two different batteries freeze up in vehicles during this cold snap so at least it's good for the retail economy.

 

[RalphKing]

Kept the car running all night. Between 1/4 and 1/3 gas left this morning.

 

[doulos]

Kept the car running all night. Between 1/4 and 1/3 gas left this morning.

How come? Is the battery no good?

 

[ThePhoenixx]

How come? Is the battery no good?

He does it to piss off the indoctrinated.

You know, the ones who come into a place and call people stupid.

 

[doulos]

He does it to piss off the indoctrinated.

You know, the ones who come into a place and call people stupid.

I'm not sure what you mean.

 

[Sniper99]

These last few nights of working out in -50 have really made me count down the days until I am gone on vacation in March

13 days to Phoenix for me. the last week and change has felt like forever with this god awful weather.

Cant wait for some golf and drinks and well more golf and more drinks and some hockey and nba basketball

 

[Mcnofool6110]

Bit OT to the OT thread, but here in Western Sydney we are getting a lovely torrential downpour

The drought is far from over, the fire season is going to continue, but what a f***ing relief

 

[soothsayer]

I can't believe people cite David Staples for anything. NOAA, NASA, IPCC: nah. I'll take David Staples.