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   dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 18:48:27 JST dansup

   My car didn’t start earlier because of the frigid temperatures of -30 so I plugged her in and she started up with command start just now no problems!

   I work from home and rarely drive (it’s a 2016 Mazda with only 55k kms lol) but you never know when you need to make an emergency snack/beer/smoke run 😅

   #trueNorth #alberta

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 18:57:06 JST dansup

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     • Emelia 👸🏻

     @thisismissem That was me last week, it suddenly got super cold here, I think its a polar vortex or something

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     Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 18:57:07 JST Emelia 👸🏻

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     @dansup here's me complaining about -10°C (berlin is the same latitude as calgary)

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 18:57:44 JST dansup

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     @datavizzard Nope, its gas combustion, its so cold that there wasn't enough juice to power the starter but after plugging in the block heater its working fine!

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     Datavizzard (datavizzard@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 18:57:45 JST Datavizzard

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     @dansup EV?

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 19:02:17 JST dansup

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     • Emelia 👸🏻

     @thisismissem Yeah its not uncommon for the temps to dip below -40 in winter here.

     I didn't even put up christmas lights this year due to the lack of snow and above average temps, it didn't feel like winter and now I hope we get like 3 feet of snow.

     Living this far north makes you appreciate and respect the cold in so many ways

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     Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 19:02:18 JST Emelia 👸🏻

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     @dansup I'm kinda glad we almost never get polar vortexes.

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 19:06:38 JST dansup

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     • Emelia 👸🏻

     @thisismissem It's pretty far up north compared to most of Canada but is comparable to northern EU and Russia!

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Prairie

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     Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 19:06:39 JST Emelia 👸🏻

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     @dansup I'm guessing you're a lot further north than I am!

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     MJ (wpgne@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 19:19:12 JST MJ

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     @dansup yep, expecting the cold to reach Southern Manitoba in the next day or two. Hoping to move up to a full electric by fall of 2025, so these colder, block heater days will become daily charging, instead.

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 20:58:24 JST dansup

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     • smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

     @smallcircles @thisismissem I don’t mind the cold and snow, plenty of memories building igloos and having snowball fights.

     We have quite an extreme temp gradient here, with polar vortexes and heat domes you have to be ready for plus 40 temps or minus 40 temps.

     Tbh though, I wouldn’t have it any other way, it makes you respect Mother Nature even more!

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     smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 20:58:25 JST smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

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     • Emelia 👸🏻

     @dansup @thisismissem

     Wow, what a temperatures! Europa benefits from the Gulf Stream making things more temperate on average.

     That page also made me go on a quick comparison re:population. Netherlands has about half the population of Canada, but is 240 times smaller as a country.