Winter - 2010
 

PDX is under a winter storm alert. Only light snow and breeze now

TV said Seattle is at 6 deg with 40 mph winds
Seattle is like big brother to PDX... always got to be more so

Tues is supposed to be frozen streets - coldest in yrs.
Wed is supposed to be even colder - maybe 17 deg

Lamplighter - it was so hot here in SW ohio yesterday that I had to put the A/C on. It was 70 degrees out on Nov. 22!

Our winters are getting hotter and dryer - we're in a draught right now.

Windchills already dropped below zero here last night. On Saturday, we had freezing rain that resulted in very slippery black ice and caused over 400 accidents in our metro area. It's going to be a snowy cold winter.

Campus closed due to icy roads.

Meh.

My parents' DOOMSAYING!!!! newspaper has us in a new Ice Age by the end of the week.
Then again they have an anti-global-warming agenda supported by their ageing readership, who still need to wear cardigans all summer and therefore have proof it's all a tax fraud by two successive Governments.

Apparently there will be snow in Scotland. There's always snow in Scotald (sorry Limey)
And oop North. There's always snow there too (sorry Dana)
But snow in the safe and protected Vale of Aylesbury, where clever settlers settled because it was safe and protected by the surrounding hills? Nope. We get drizzle.

I am so ungrateful.
I need to move North, or work in a school where I have to break a path to the door every morning, and have the children huddle round the stove until they thaw out.
But Dakota is a long way away.

Aaaack ! Freezing rain last night - both doors on truck are frozen shut.
The door latch sounds as if it is free and the lock is unlocked,
so I think it is ice getting into the rubber insulation around the door.

No electric outlet nearby so hair dryer is not going to happen
I've tried WD40 - no joy
I'm waiting for sun shine

What do you guys in the cold country do to prevent this ?

freezing rains is actually pretty rare in the cold country. You end up with snow when it's cold.

Have you checked all the doors? One might open, and you can crawl over the seat, get the engine going and warm the car up to melt the ice.

edit: Never mind, I see it's a 2 door truck.

Here in south central KY last night, it was 69 degrees at fifteen minutes till midnight! Thunderstorms all night long...

Same shit here in deep south. Doors and windows opened. But, but that just might change in a few days. Foggy tonight also.

Yesterday.

Today was just as bad, since it only got up to about 25 degrees.

Couldn't you just boil the kettle and tip hot water on it?

I wouldn't really know if this would work though. I'm definitely not from a cold climate.

Tank top weather.

Sunlight + WD40 seemed to do the job late this afternoon
Sunlight sans WD40 - no joy... but all is OK now, after a push from the inside

I thought about hot water, but was concerned it might might freeze up the door again tonight and take the latch and/or lock with it this time.

But thanks for the idea...

It's too bad the Pacific Northwest gets the occasional ice storm that makes driving treacherous but never enough snow to make seasoned pros.