Comments on: It’s Freakin’ Cold Today http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/13/its-freakin-cold-today/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:09:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: J Wynia http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/13/its-freakin-cold-today/#comment-13934 J Wynia Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:30:46 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/13/its-freakin-cold-today/#comment-13934 Heh. I just came in from 45 minutes of shoveling snow here in MN where it's 26 degrees colder than that (6°F). The whole neighborhood was out shoveling. The funny thing is that it actually snowed last night (about 6 inches) and no one on the street bothered to clean it up until tonight. We just drove through it this morning and went to work. Heh. I just came in from 45 minutes of shoveling snow here in MN where it’s 26 degrees colder than that (6°F). The whole neighborhood was out shoveling. The funny thing is that it actually snowed last night (about 6 inches) and no one on the street bothered to clean it up until tonight. We just drove through it this morning and went to work.

]]> By: James http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/13/its-freakin-cold-today/#comment-13455 James Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:07:00 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/13/its-freakin-cold-today/#comment-13455 It's funny that you say you're unprepared. Here in Halifax, we don't prepare <b>at all</b> for anything. Our first (and only, so far) snow storm of this season occurred a month or two ago. It wasn't even a real storm, a few centimeters of snow fell during the day. The entire city instantly forgot how to drive and by the evening rush hour, routes that normally took 5-10 minutes were taking 2-3 hours to traverse. I had snow tires put on my car a few weeks beforehand, but apparently nobody else did, so a bunch of us at my work simply walked to a bar to wait it out. We occassionally looked out the window to see the same cars waiting in traffic. When it started moving normally at around 9:00PM we went home. The following day, there was a 3-4 week wait to get snow tires installed. :-) It’s funny that you say you’re unprepared. Here in Halifax, we don’t prepare at all for anything.

Our first (and only, so far) snow storm of this season occurred a month or two ago. It wasn’t even a real storm, a few centimeters of snow fell during the day. The entire city instantly forgot how to drive and by the evening rush hour, routes that normally took 5-10 minutes were taking 2-3 hours to traverse.

I had snow tires put on my car a few weeks beforehand, but apparently nobody else did, so a bunch of us at my work simply walked to a bar to wait it out. We occassionally looked out the window to see the same cars waiting in traffic. When it started moving normally at around 9:00PM we went home.

The following day, there was a 3-4 week wait to get snow tires installed. :-)

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