Hi Mark,
Yesterday it was 15C the snow is melting fast now. I planned to do yesterday what I did today
My neighbour got me into the mood only yesterday I had too much on my plate so I did it today. Driving my Blue tornado will only take place when the roads are totally dry (as I said snow is still melting and water running down the streets).
You asked the coldest I've ever driven in would have been out west were I lived for over 25 years. I think it would have been -45 or there a bouts when I drove from Edmonton, Alberta to Fort McMurray, Alberta for a project that needed to be started and no air tickets were to be had. I did that in my then Jeep Cherokee
It is a good 5 hour drive (longer in winter) you see no signs of life except for wild life for hours on end (it is a fairly non populated road ~ was a 2 lane for years, now they are changing it to 4 lanes). Your car is equipped with a block heater so you can keep the oil warm once you are way up north. Most people at the plant(s) up there when it is that cold keep there cars running all the time (company 1/2 ton trucks) all you see in parking lots is exhaust vapors rising. Mind you it get's even colder with the windchill factor. Then that's another story
Then again they had temperatures up there in the -50s
I remember a winter in the late 70 during commissioning of one of the oil sands plants up there that the entire plant shut down. The culprit was of course frigget cold temperatures, however, the cause was frozen instrument lines on equipment in the power plant. It took days to get the plant going again.
