28 Replies to “It Goes Without Saying”

  1. Those little hurricane candles and a box of waterproof matches. Amazing how much heat one small circle of wax will share with you in an enclosed space. (And not too much CO).

    Also the nuts require bolts.

    1. Exactly. I was going to suggest an empty steel coffee can and a couple of candles. Heavy gloves, a scarf and a heavy stocking cap are mandatory. I have most of this stuff in the car year-round. It can be damn cold in Yellowstone and that vicinity in July, especially on the high passes.

  2. Message received and understood
    FYI
    My basset was giving me the look when I told her we would be forgoing this evenings walk likewise the morning one as well.

  3. It probably goes without saying (which is probably why you didn’t say it)….but…and a phone.

    Don’t know about the rest of your guys, but this winter has been colder than normal in my neck of the literal woods. Add to that three separate snow storms in the last two and a half days, and pretty soon (like now) you’re looking at about 18″ (45.7 cm for you metric heads) of relatively new snow. We’ve had a total of 4 days since Thanksgiving where the temperature went more than 5 degrees above freezing (2.8 Celsius, again for you metric heads). I think you’d have to search back quite a few years to find comparable temperatures in such consistency against the average. And, I’m not even in the Northern part of the East Coast. I’m in what qualifies as a Mid-Atlantic state.

    (Disclaimer: For all I know I screwed up the metric conversions. Maybe I didn’t. Who knows?)

    1. Yes, metric can be difficult. It’s much easier for you inbred types to remember 12s (inches/toes), 16 (chin hairs/in an inch), 3s (feet per yard/testicles) etc. I’m not sure what 66 (feet in a chain) is… people that are both in laws and your family at a wedding?

      1. Iffin I weren’t an inbred hillbilly, I’d wager you was insultin me some.

        Just because my family tree is indistinguishable from a telephone pole is no reason to get nasty. Incidentally, telephone poles come in at 30 to 60 feet depending on how many siblings you have. Or to put it in Canadian terms…the distance a Common Loon can fly in .75 seconds 😀

  5. OT.
    I saw that Scott Moe said that Carney has raised our credibility on world trade.
    Has Moe been compromised?

  8. As a lifetime Saskatchewan resident, I’m well into my annual winter semi-hibernation season. On the rare occasion I am forced to drive somewhere, I travel with a full winter emergency kit. Clothing, candles, food, water, booster cables, etc. Being reckless in a cold climate can have severe consequences. Thankfully we’re close to being able to transition into snowbirds.

    1. I am a high mileage driver and have an older car. This time of year half my car is filled with winter supplies, emergency kit, food, booster cables, tire chains, towing chains, oil, funnel and possibly required spare parts, just in case.

  9. I admit my surprise at hearing no one was killed in that 100-car pile up. Now, I hope none die of exposure.

  10. Yep, this globall warming is a real bitch. We’re still overdoing it with our plastic bags and gas guzzlers!

  11. The Twitter thread can be summarized as follows:

    Faced with conditions like this, seasoned, professional truck drivers who know what they’re doing will pull over and wait for the worst to pass. The AWFULs can wait a day or two to get the crap they don’t need that they ordered online with money they don’t have to impress their fellow harpies, because it cannot possibly be worth the life of a man who works for his living.

    That pileup was, almost certainly, caused by an illegal immigrant who had probably never seen snow before being smuggled into North America, but who owed his smuggler a mint and couldn’t afford to turn down a job, no matter how poorly it paid or how unrealistic were the customer’s expectations.

    And in the end the AWFULs had to wait for the crap they didn’t need after all.

  12. I love cold bitter winters, born and raised Alberta, it is also 1 reason why we have not been overwhelmed with gimmegrunts yet, It’s hilarious to see them bundled up when its -10C….lol

  13. This is no defense, but extreme lake-effect bands of snow squalls do happen and they are wicked. Zero visibility.
    I know I was never taught or instructed on the proper actions, but slowing down when you can’t see would be a proper response.

  15. 68 year old canuck, here, who has lived in north ontario, northern alberta, and northern bc.
    travel extensively in your local county in winter, for supplies, and avoid highways to nowhere.

  16. ah phooey. l wuz hoping the link would lead to a vid of the pileup as it happened.
    lm gonna be an unlicensed truck driver sose l can play bumper cars like the fairgrounds as a kid.
    hey. SLOW DOWN DAMMIT. or make a deeeeeeecisionnnnnnn. *weight the risk* of a fenderbender+
    vs how impordandt is it REALLY to go from A to B ifn yer car is a writeoff when ya gets to B? finally?
    a buddy missed his Calagary to T.O. flight a week ago. didnt know till l switched the cell ph
    (thing is it was OFF the entire 200km drive to that point) then last weeks snow hit. then l suggested
    ’twas a blessing is disguise since how much fun schtuck in a N Falls motel 2 days THEN schtuck
    in st thomas till now?
    yo leftoidals, when youse gonna summon sum summer wedder and stop the hypothermia deaths?

  17. Imagine sitting in the middle of that pile in your fancy electric car. Or with a nearly empty gas tank.

  18. When the weather gets really cold or crappy I park the truck in the coverall and we just stay home.

  19. This is 40 miles north of me and I was planning to go to Holland yesterday but cancelled due to weather forecast. When our local stations cite white out conditions and westerly winds, you don’t ignore them.

    Obviously many were either not aware of the forecast for white-out conditions on M196, were driving too fast for conditions and/or had to be there for employment. Either way a major mess. The road is a scant 5 miles from the lake shore and that zone is pretty flat, hence horizontal snowstorms.

  20. It’s winter in Canada Baby! Cue the Game of Thrones theme music!

    I have posted previously, but it bears repeating, I paid attention in my Grade 5 Geography Class back in the 1960’s. Our science teacher told us that Earth’s climate is affected by our star, the Sun. There are solar flares on the Sun’s surface which happen in 30 year (plus or minus) cycles. The 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s were very, very cold in winter and then in the 1980’s, 90’s and early 2000’s, it went into the warming cycle. Since 2010, we have been in another cooling cycle which will last until 2040 (again plus or minus). Dress warmly and be sensible in the cold weather.

  21. I suppose this means I should give up all hope of riding my motorcycle to Friday the 13th at Port Dover in February. Hard to get your bike out when the driveway’s drifted in.

    I went in December 2024, that was a giggle. Only the hardest of the hard core made it that day, about 40 maniacs. ~:D

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