Tobin S.
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:16 AM
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I'm in Echo, Utah and it's 32 degrees here right now |
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When I went to bed last night the temperature felt comfortable enough to sleep without idling the truck for heat or a/c. I awoke this morning feeling like an ice cube. It's cold enough to snow! It's too early for this shit.
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:25 AM
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:32 AM
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2. I have an idea. ***wrong place*** |
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Edited on Sat Sep-11-10 08:34 AM by Ptah
Get a small wood-burning stove, hack up your cab for a stovepipe, and you're all set.
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:37 AM
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I saw a guy with a window a/c unit, like you would put into your house, poking out of the back of the sleeper. He also had a large propane tank back there. I asked him about the tank and he said that when fuel prices are really high, the truck can run on a diesel/propane mixture and he gets better fuel mileage. I don't know how it works.
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:34 AM
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3. I have an idea. Respond to Tobin. |
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:blush: Get a small wood-burning stove, hack up your cab for a stovepipe, and you're all set.
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Tobin S.
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:37 AM
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6. Now you made me post in the wrong place! |
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:35 AM
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4. Tobin - it was 54 here earlier this morning...not so bad, but it was over 90 |
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three days ago. We have had more 90 degree or over days this season than every year save one that these things were recorded...
I think we may be having as wierd a winter as we had a spring.
Take care out there, dude!
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:41 AM
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7. Chilly here, NOT 32! Bought flannel pjs yesterday! |
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(Wind blowing and looks pretty chilly in Shanksville, PA, with Michelle, Laura, etc. now.)
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:45 AM
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8. stay warm out there, Tobin -- |
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do you have a sleeping bag, or what?
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Tobin S.
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:59 AM
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10. Yeah, I have sheets, a blanket, and a sleeping bag |
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Along with some warm clothes.
I broke down a few years back on the coldest day of the winter when I was a local driver there in Ohio. It got down to 19 below zero. I was unprepaired for that kind of weather and had a scary moment there before help arrived because the truck stopped running and I had no heat.
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Sat Sep-11-10 09:15 AM
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Edited on Sat Sep-11-10 09:21 AM by Tuesday Afternoon
do you sleep in your clothes. I guess you have to...
maybe you could sleep in sweats :shrug:
get some flannel sheets, too
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:54 AM
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9. I think an early winter is coming T. |
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Crows are gathering,cranes are flocking,I see yellow leaves already.
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Sat Sep-11-10 08:59 AM
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yeah I think the season is changing here too
upper 40s this morning (brrr) and the light has definitely changed
jacket losing weather - need one in the morning, forget where you left it by noon
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Sat Sep-11-10 09:12 AM
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13. " jacket losing weather" Good description. |
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Think where you were in April and you'll find a jacket, two pair of gloves and a watch cap.
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Sat Sep-11-10 09:06 AM
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Too cold, too early. Stay warm.
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Sat Sep-11-10 09:13 AM
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14. Our summer this year had a handful of warm days... |
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we have had many nights however where the temp dropped down into the low 30s. Usually winter sets in here about the end of October...dunno what to expect this winter as it is unusually cold at the moment. Up at 4100 feet in the Oregon Cascades.
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Sat Sep-11-10 12:14 PM
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16. Yes, we're a wee bit chilly up here in the mountains. |
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Sat Sep-11-10 02:46 PM
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to be that cool right now.
A few years ago I was in Memphis. Late September. Dressed for summer.
A cold front came through and I froze my you know what off. No long sleeved shirts, no long pants. I was attending a day long outside event.
I had to buy some clothes. Very unexpected.
Since that day, I have kept a hooded sweatshirt, pair of jeans, long sleeved t shirt and some tennis shoes under the driver's seat of the car wrapped up inside of a big towel.
Also, put one of those throws in your truck. They work great for unexpected cold snaps. Better than nothing.
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