Post by magikbus on Dec 27, 2021 20:54:55 GMT -8
It was early Jan 1972 when a young teacher and his wife drove up to Quesnel BC to start his career. His first day at his new school up on the plateau above Quesnel was "interesting' because there were no kids at school that day. It was too cold. Minus 45F downtown, minus 64F up on the plateau. The 66 bug had bias ply tires and no block heater. His poor wife had to get "outdoor" dressed and help push the bug 2 blocks to the main street where some kind soul gently matched bumpers with me and pushed me a good half mile before it started and bumped the next 7 miles on square tires to the school. My principal came running out of the school and made me restart the bug to leave it running all morning. I shut it off at lunch time and let it sit for awhile but then managed to get it started again and ran it until 3pm on the dot when I drove it to the VW dealer in town and got them to install the "donut" block heater which worked like a charm from that day forward.
Side note, don't be scared of cold weather, if it's too cold you just don't have the right clothes on. As an old St. John's ambulance instructor I can authoritively tell you it's a fact that more people die of hypothermia in the spring and fall than in the winter. The reason, wrong clothes.
A few years later, in order to check the sheep during January/February lambing on the farm in the foothills outside Dawson Creek, my "shift" to check them for newborn lambs was midnight till 6 am. Wearing gold bond wool long johns, heavy wool socks, felted wool pants, a wool shirt and sweater under a quilted snowmobile (full) suit with fur lined hood, wool lined leather snowmobile mits and felt lined snowmobile boots, I could have gone to sleep in the snow at minus 50 F and woken up in the morning refreshed and ready to go to school with no problems. That type of get up was common those days in the winter up North. It's all about what you are wearing.
Stan
Side note, don't be scared of cold weather, if it's too cold you just don't have the right clothes on. As an old St. John's ambulance instructor I can authoritively tell you it's a fact that more people die of hypothermia in the spring and fall than in the winter. The reason, wrong clothes.
A few years later, in order to check the sheep during January/February lambing on the farm in the foothills outside Dawson Creek, my "shift" to check them for newborn lambs was midnight till 6 am. Wearing gold bond wool long johns, heavy wool socks, felted wool pants, a wool shirt and sweater under a quilted snowmobile (full) suit with fur lined hood, wool lined leather snowmobile mits and felt lined snowmobile boots, I could have gone to sleep in the snow at minus 50 F and woken up in the morning refreshed and ready to go to school with no problems. That type of get up was common those days in the winter up North. It's all about what you are wearing.
Stan
