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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

it’s currently-20 with a windchill of -36! A tad chilly!
valentine GIF by Angry Birds
 
Goofyernmost

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John park hopper said:
Buddy of mine when his mother passed away he got her caddy -brought it down from CT shortly after he had it the brake lines corroded through where the connectors were. Seems that is a problem in the northeast with salting the roads corrodes the brake lines
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Never had brake line problems but they started to use lines that were not susceptible to salt. Mine spent 6 winters in Vermont before I moved here to NC. It was engine and injection problems mostly. Multiplied because the high tech mechanics at the Cadillac dealer didn't find the actual problem to the injector issue until 6 (count um six) $650.00 repair times over four years. The most expensive was the head gaskets. I had a Cady before my last one that had the head gaskets go when on my big family trip to WDW. That was a $3000.00 repair so I could get it home from Florida, but I just figured it was a fluke. I had purchased that one at an auction and had no idea about it's owner or previous problems. When the last one, a $55K car had both of the head gaskets go at 140K that became my last, last Cadillac. $12000. Toyotas were getting 200K+ miles with no big problems. Makes one stop wondering about the quality of Made in the USA products. Up until then, with the exception of my two Dodge Caravans, I was a GM man. Mostly Buicks. My last two have been VW's.

Loved my Caravans, but as a single person by then, I really had no need for a van, but I loved driving it. With the V-6 Mitsubishi engine and front wheel drive that could go through any amount of snow with just all season tires. Between the two I had put on about 250K with no mechanical problems at all.
 
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Goofyernmost

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MinnieM123 said:
Just a little tidbit here from MA. The state will also use a brine mixture for de-icing. (As an fyi: I copied a paragraph from the Conservation Law Foundation, that explains the process.)

Massachusetts has a reduced salt policy, and currently pre-treats its roads with brine when possible to decrease the use of road salt. Brine is a 23% salt solution that reduces the amount of salt spread on roads by 15% to 30%. The solution also reduces the amount of chloride released into the atmosphere by 14% to 29%. :)
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It also reduces the efficiency as well. Vermont had debates yearly about the damage that salt was doing to the environment, but mostly rusting out the cars. It was impossible to find a car over 6 years old that wasn't affected by rust. One thing that I observed because we lived so close to New York State that used sand, was that in Vermont in spring and summer, greenery was right up to the edge of the roads, in NYS all living plant life within 3 ft. of the roads edge was dead. Because of that the argument of car damage was emphasized. My take on that was I can buy a new car if needed, but I cannot replace myself or my family in a winter weather induced road accident. So they still use it, and Vermont remains one of the safest places to drive in the winter. To this day I am pressed to find what damage has been done by using "plentiful" salt. Doesn't mean it isn't happening, it just isn't very obvious.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Gabe1 said:
Negative 13 wind chill. I hate COVID. I‘d so have booked a trip to WDW like I did last year And the year before When the weather became ridiculous.
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Are those two thoughts connected in a way that isn't obvious to me? OK, it finally hit me if not for Covid you would have gone to WDW.

BTW, you can still book one, it just is much more difficult to go. Sorry, probably not a humorous subject.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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FutureCEO said:
The whole groundhog day thing...I don't understand
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If you're trying to make any sense of it you are going to remain frustrated. It is just a fun thing that they do based on an ancient thought that a ground hog comes out to check if it is spring yet and when it sees it's shadow it goes back under ground to finish hibernating. It made no sense then and it still doesn't but it is something to help let us know that we are at least half way over winter.
 

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