L. Marcus Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Poor buggers. Snow is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Only haveto drive about 30 minutes to get to it, if you want it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 No need for me -- I've got the stuff just outside the window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 Can you hand me some please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 How about a few ice cubes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 In a drink or down the neck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 Two for two, keep going.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 Mixed rain and snow at this moment. No chance it'll persist as snow, but we have seen flakes for the first time this autumn/winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 Flakes abound here. Snow as well as the other kind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 29, 2014 Report Share Posted November 29, 2014 It snowed during the night, as the temperature dropped. Not much snow, and the sun's come out and the temperature is still fallling. Probably a nice glaze of ice on the streets now. I'm going nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 30, 2014 Report Share Posted November 30, 2014 Stay put -- unless a truck or something comes careening through the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 30, 2014 Report Share Posted November 30, 2014 I did. Went out this morning on roads bare, dry, and cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 30, 2014 Report Share Posted November 30, 2014 Roads here are bare and dry too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 ... Of liquor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 I actually wonder how many car windshield ice scrapers there are in the entire state of Hawaii. Probably a few hundred, all in vehicles of people who recently moved there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Do people bring their cars to Hawaii? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just sell the old one and buy a new? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Given how far away it is from everything, I can't imagine that buying much of anything in Hawai'i is the cheaper option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Now, the car you bring in may not be ideally equipped for the new location, but that's hardly a situation unique to HI. Witness the 1970 Ford Maverick with no air conditioning and black vinyl interior purchased for service in northern California that I took to central Texas. "The Rolling Dutch Oven", I called it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Do people bring their cars to Hawaii? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just sell the old one and buy a new? People have been known to fly to the mainland, buy a car there, and have it shipped back as the cheaper option. Dealer markup here is ludicrous. Otherwise we get a lot of military types shipping their cars out from wherever when they get transferred here. I imagine those might have ice scrapers. I remember going to the mainland on business once and finding an ice scraper on the dash of the rental. I was like "what the hell is this thing?" I think that was the Boston trip. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 When we bought a car when I was a kid in West Berlin, my folks bought a used Volvo that had an extra control in it, a handle that could put a screen in front of the engine to block the cold air from flowing around it. Being a Volvo manufactured for northern Europe, it had that since at times you didn't want that cooling ... January in Lappland or in Sarek National Park or something. Dad knew what it was and what it was for and told us never to touch it. I've never seen it in a US made vehicle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Perhaps it'd be useful in Alaska or the Mid-West? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Alaska inland, and then perhaps the extreme northern plains. Not much market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Tiny population, I gather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Comparable to the northern regions of Scandinavia, I should think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Small populations are characteristic of PLACES WHERE IT GETS SO COLD YOU HAVE TO DISABLE YOUR CAR'S ENGINE COOLING SYSTEM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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