It's freakin' cold outside!!!1!

[Simmo W]

So Chris, did you get out of your heated garage or car? Driving a '74 Ford Escort in Melbourne's winter, with a broken heater, now that's tough!

[larjeet]

Chris, Rolph Harris Vancouver Town just for you . By the way did you notice my new photo HIHI http://youtu.be/sWCY7SrnEP8

Edited February 13, 2012 by larjeet

[RojanTrojan]

Wimps... =P

-39c when I left that morning.Warmed up to a balmy -28c on the way home. And people wonder why I moved south. =)

- CK.

Holy cow! -39! It's incredible how cars work in those sort of temperatures. I have a friend who worked on a documentary about Everest for the Discovery Channel. They got around half the way up to film. One morning it was so cold (i cant remember how cold) that nothing worked, none of the sound recording equipment or camera equipment which were tape based at the time. I work with this sort of equipment every day it can take one heck of a hammering. However, the only thing that was working that day was his iPod...being solid state with no moving parts it could still keep going. Incredible the technology these days.

Rhydian

[Dozer]

So Chris, did you get out of your heated garage or car? Driving a '74 Ford Escort in Melbourne's winter, with a broken heater, now that's tough!

I did not hear this. I'm fed up with deicing my car in the southern English winter. The temptation to exercise my UK/Oz dual nationality and flee the land of perpetual twilight for Melbourne is ever-strong. You cannot shatter my dreams by telling me I'll need to deice my car in Melbourne too

[Ben Russell]

I did not hear this. I'm fed up with deicing my car in the southern English winter. The temptation to exercise my UK/Oz dual nationality and flee the land of perpetual twilight for Melbourne is ever-strong. You cannot shatter my dreams by telling me I'll need to deice my car in Melbourne too

You'll need to douse it in fire retardent foam in summer too..

Melbourne has bipolar weather. Pick anywhere else in Oz and it's far more sane.

[Simmo W]

Sorry to say that Ben is right about Melb's weather. Generally good, but only if u average it over 7 yrs.

And you'll need fire retardant foam for your car in all seasons, depending on which suburb you live in!

But you save $$$ on umbrellas here. When it rains, the wind usually turns it into horizontal molten sleet, then it shreds the umb, so no point using one

[larjeet]

I was born in Vancouver in November , the Doctors and Nurses did't wash me off they just held me out the window LOL.

Vancouvers favorite Christmas song . Im dreaming of a wet Christmas .

and the only time Vancouverites use umbrellas is to block the sun .

Edited February 13, 2012 by larjeet

[balus]

It's 30 degrees outside here, oh and that's celsius

[Simmo W]

but where are you Balus?

Ah, a glorious 28c in Melb today, and hardly any wind, amazing.

hehe, it only got down to 22c overnight too! Should have slept outside with the dog..

[balus]

Townsville

[chris k]

So Chris, did you get out of your heated garage or car? Driving a '74 Ford Escort in Melbourne's winter, with a broken heater, now that's tough!

Hah - Nope. not if I could avoid it. The car had a self-starter and heated seats. Would always heat up the car w/the remote starter from inside the house; then run real quick into the car to a nice warm bum... drive.. then run inside.

Ahh, the joys of living in Southern Canada in February. (This was from a day trip from Calgary to Medicine Hat one morning where I needed to drive out to train some field techs that day on WiMAX Internet CPE/Router Installation - We were dropping Megabits on Farmers at the time).

And phillip, you could get 2MBit/sec in the middle of a field in Canada vs. poor xDSL in Urban Germany =)

- CK

[larjeet]

Its raining again in Vancouver

[Dozer]

The car had a self-starter

I think that's illegal in the UK. I am jealous :-(