On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 10:32:12 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 1/7/2018 10:26 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 1/7/18 7:21 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

... to know that I discovered something about the remote start in my
truck this morning.Â* It only allows two, 10 minute cycles using the
remote without putting the key in or starting the truck normally.Â* If
you attempt a third remote start cycle it won't start the truck.


It was a balmy 6F when I got up this morning. My half-bro in the New
Haven area reported in with a -4F in his suburb. The cats, who usually
are at the windows chirping with the birds in the early morning, are
burrowed in with my wife.


We are all so much looking forward to later this week when it is
forecast to get up near 50. It may rain, but that's fine. It will wash
all the concrete-like snow/ice off the roads and driveways after it
melts. The rock salt that was spread doesn't touch it because it's too
cold to activate.

This has been a bitch of a winter ... temp-wise. Can't remember it ever
being so cold for so long.


I am not sure if it is true but I heard once that 0 F is when brine
freezes. I can guarantee sea water will freeze because we saw plenty
of that in the North Atlantic. Any part of the ship that was not
internally heated from inside was covered with ice. Usually the decks
were OK, just because there was no insulation and we kept the inside
pretty warm. Once you got out on the wings of the bridge or anywhere
else that was open on both sides it was 2" of ice or more.