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  1. 12-10-2008 02:30 AM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Orangetxguy View Post
    Ya'all can go ahead and keep the cold up north...say north of I-40. You have my blessings!
    Hey Stan! I hadn't heard about your castration!

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    Quote Originally Posted by NancyM01 View Post
    Hello WildKat. Who do you drive the Northern Ice Roads for? Your regular company or someone else? Is it as lucrative in terms of earning potential as I've read on the internet? Is it a realistic goal on my part, that after a couple of years experience (regular driving), I could apply to drive up north? (Northwest Territories Ice Roads) Your honesty is very much appreicated.
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    Nancy, I am a Lease Operator (I own my truck) for Byers Transport. The money IS very good, about 2 1/2 times normal rates, but it's only for 6-9 weeks/year. Most of the companies (the reputable ones) who run on the Ice Roads will not hire anyone without about 10 years experience to run those roads & the majority have their drivers return year after year so it's very hard to get into unless you are already working for the company to start with. The main company that hires for them is RTL Robinson, but again they have drivers that return each year & most of them are fuel haulers & as for the majority of them you need to be pretty mechanical as well & also you would have to be able to chain-up daily...not the pretty little singles but 90 lbs triples.

    My advise would be to go out & get several years under your belt & then check into it again.

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  3. 12-15-2008 03:44 AM #23
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    Update time...just back from Yellowknife...and man was it COLD!



    On the ferry....



    Sunrise...10 AM



    Frost on them short, short trees...





    Near Enterprise, NWT


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    -32C ? holy smokes,btw keep the pics coming. really enjoy them. more Mandy too!

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    Yeah...that was in the middle of the day...once it got dark the temps dropped to a frigid -48 ...but my gauge thermometer only goes to -40 so all I had was 3 dashes across the temp display! I really HATE seeing those three dashes.

    Mandy is staying home now... I don't like taking her with me when it gets this cold...too dangerous!

    But... here's one from last fall just to hold you over!





    GOD! I just went outside...at HOME...it's THIRTY freaking below out there!
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  6. 12-15-2008 08:23 AM #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by belpre122 View Post
    Hey Stan! I hadn't heard about your castration!

    NOW Gary...You just STOP being so Cantankerous!!! I moved down here to the Gulf Coast to be WARM. If I wanted to get snowed on, I would have stayed in Seattle!!!


    Now...for whatever reason...I missed this years WINTER here in Orange! I was on the road to LA and say a brief spit of snow in San Antonio, but that was it.

    Keep the thermal weather up north please.
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    We are supposed to have some of that white stuff this week. Or atleast, it's in the forecast. Today's high is supposed to be 31. I don't care who you are, that's cold right there! We are supposed to have freezing drizzle after Midnight, tonight. (whatever freezing drizzle means) That aint 30" of snow, but it's enough.

    I'm sure we will be running our air conditioners by next week.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379 View Post
    We are supposed to have some of that white stuff this week. Or atleast, it's in the forecast. Today's high is supposed to be 31. I don't care who you are, that's cold right there! We are supposed to have freezing drizzle after Midnight, tonight. (whatever freezing drizzle means) That aint 30" of snow, but it's enough.

    I'm sure we will be running our air conditioners by next week.
    31? OMG!!!!!!


    (it was 45 degrees when I went to bed last night. It was 2 degrees when I woke up, with a -15 wind chill.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago View Post
    31? OMG!!!!!!
    Yeah, tell me about it! I thought the same thing when I first saw the weather forecast. I could not believe it!
    (after I posted that, I thought, "someone will say something about that". )


    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago View Post
    (it was 45 degrees when I went to bed last night. It was 2 degrees when I woke up, with a -15 wind chill.)
    That would be a rude awakening.


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    I'm currently parked at a dock in Sheboygan, WI, and my truck is facing the wind. The coolant temp is reading 125 degrees. LOL.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago View Post
    I'm currently parked at a dock in Sheboygan, WI, and my truck is facing the wind. The coolant temp is reading 125 degrees. LOL.
    Dag gum, man. That's amazing how that wind chill makes a difference like that.


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    The temp has dropped from 73 at noon to 57 right now, but headed to 41 before sunset!
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    Oh you guys are SOOO spoiled...Right now it's -22 with a windchill of -40...now that's COLD!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wildkat View Post
    Oh you guys are SOOO spoiled...Right now it's -22 with a windchill of -40...now that's COLD!




    AND THAT is why I don't ever plan on moving home to Montana! Take me there to bury me...but I'm gonna live where it is warm!!

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    My sister just emailed this to me...very appropriate I think!

    Alberta Poem


    It's winter in Alberta
    And the gentle breezes blow
    Seventy miles an hour
    At twenty-nine below.

    Oh, how I love Alberta
    When the snow's up to your butt
    You take a breath of winter
    And you nose gets frozen shut.

    Yes, the weather here is wonderful
    So I guess I'll hang around
    I could never leave Alberta

    My ass is frozen to the ground!!






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    Wildkat: when you post the temp is it always in Centigrade? I know that -40C = -40F. Love your pictures and Mandy is the cutest!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jonp View Post
    Wildkat: when you post the temp is it always in Centigrade? I know that -40C = -40F. Love your pictures and Mandy is the cutest!

    It's a Canuck thing jonp...I'm old enough to remember the conversions, but mostly I try to remember to show both...but sometimes I forget...so in my threads cause I'm Canadian just take it as a given the temps are in Celcius, unless you see a conversion right with it!

    Thanks for the cudos on my pictures...Mandy IS an absolute sweetheart too!

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    You've been doing a good job keeping winter up there north of I-40 Kat. Keep it up!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by wildkat View Post

    LOL.....Cute. They need a sunbathng smilie!! It was 74 here today....56 right not!!
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