In my Midwest days, I've spent an entire week up in North Dakota on business, when the temps and windchill were some gawd awful crazy numbers.....

Get back home to Minneapolis, where the temps were in the 20 below range and its hard to believe that seemed almost balmy...where you could go outside to check the mail in short sleeves....

been up there a few Januarys all week long, where the company would call and wanted to know why I used so much fuel for the week.... they didn't understand the concept of "I didn't turn my car off all week".....

just locked it up and left it running.... filled it back up once it got down to half a tank....

sure was glad to own a good old Volvo Wagon in those cold temps...one hell of a heater on those cars...


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