Sympathy for outdoor workers today

[Pronto]

-7 here with windchill of -20. All I can say is hope there is some way for you guys to stay warm. Thank God for fuel injection, in the old carb days the car would never start.

 

[tbone87]

I'm in freaking Alabama its 5° windchill of -5 wooooo!!!!

 

[626gn]

In my younger days as a construction worker in Hawaii, I've always marveled how guys living in cold weather states can continue to work in conditions like that.

 

[Phoneguy]

Was brutal here yesterday with 30 mph wind gusts. -25 wind chill.
This morning it was -7 when I left.
It's warmed up some , it's -1 now

 

[deezdad]

-7 here with windchill of -20. All I can say is hope there is some way for you guys to stay warm. Thank God for fuel injection, in the old carb days the car would never start.

I was thinking the same thing while driving to North Reading this morning, you dont hear of cold weather breakdowns anymore. 20 years ago people use to fill up there gas tanks before parking it on a frigid nite and add a container of dry gas or some crap

 

[John Larkin]

Yeah, there is plenty of ethanol in winter gas; it doesn't freeze in the fuel lines anymore. My MPG has also dropped 10% since summer gas ended.

I was out for an hour yesterday bundled to the hilt and even with a facemask my cheeks and fingertips were getting cold. Windy bad.

 

[novaderrik]

it's just cold... you get used to it..

regarding carbureted cars not starting: i've never had a carbureted daily driver that wouldn't start in the cold, but i've had a few fuel injected cars that wouldn't..

 

[Pronto]

You must have had special grace from God. Every car I've ever known that was a carbed engine sucked in winter. I've been driving 40 years.