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Charles
| | Posted on Saturday, January 11, 2003 - 11:58 pm: | 
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Not even for my wheels, but for a single lug. I guess the payments on the new Rangie are killing them they could not afford the 8.00 for a lug they instead stole one of mine. Man these Calgary people are hurting! Sorry i like Canada but this town is full of people trading in Dodge Durangos for rovers... |
Al Oliveira (Offroaddisco)
| | Posted on Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 12:13 am: |
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They're not broke, the dealers are just out of parts. Just hope the guy doesn't have any valve problems and needs a new top end.  |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 02:48 am: |
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Charles, you'll find all the lug nuts in Edmonton.
(just a friendly jab at my southern neighbors)
hey is it bloody cold there too? It's been -20 or more here for the last couple days. |
Glenn Guinto (Glenn)
| | Posted on Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 08:49 am: |
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-20 damn!
It was +20 degrees here yesterday with wind chills in the single digits. That made me chicken out from wrenching on the truck. It's time to move out west!
-glenn |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 12:15 pm: |
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LOL...ya, west coast wouldn't be bad but it's also humid there (well the Vancouver area) too so not good for vehicles. You know it's cold when you can "see" the air. Right now it's -22  I'm glad there's no wind or it could easily be -45. |
robert
| | Posted on Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 05:15 pm: |
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That sucks! I had a logo stolen off my door handle in Calgary. But the good news is i get to move away from here and to So. california, so i can not worry about working in my garage in cold weather, like i did the last two days. Anyhow i have an extra lug or two around if you are here and the dealership is without..email me back if need be..I am here all this week and then gone by next weekend so do it asap if you need one... |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 08:12 am: |
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At the moment it's +16ºF here.... cold enough, don't want it to get lower....
Sometimes it'll snap down to zero, but usually not for long. Coldest I ever remember it being here is -22º, but that was a couple of decades ago...
-L |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 11:43 am: |
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Yea, yea Leslie, keep rubbing it in...I'd kill for some +16F temps. It's currently -18C this morning and apparently that's the high. It's supposed to drop to -24 this afternoon. |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 02:55 pm: |
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lol...
Don't guess you want to know that we've finally warmed up to 39....
Only time I want it cold is if we have snow... it's not fun having it cold w/o the white stuff....
-L |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 03:41 pm: |
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I TOTALLY hear you on that. I'd take 3 feet of snow any day over cold and no snow. Right now we have both but it's a bit too cold.
...and no, I don't want to hear that it's up to 39. It's going down to -28 tonight, Doh!
You Calgary folk rarely even see it go down this far. For those of you who aren't familiar, Calgary is about 3 hours south west of Edmonton and happen to be in a chinook belt so their temps are usually warmer...sometimes by quite a bit. |
charles
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 02:14 am: |
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Yeah so the weather can be nice, hope the damn jerk enjoys the weather while he steals lugs off others trucks...I will never go back, now Edmonton, that sounds like fun, minus anything sounds interesting... |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 11:09 am: |
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shuddup! I keep having to tell myself, "I like insanely cold weather, I like insanely cold weather." |
TPH (Snowman)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 11:16 am: |
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Alan-
You you raised in that area? Damn that's cold weather! Your heating bills must be insane.
S- |
Greg P. (Gparrish)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 11:25 am: |
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Charles, just buy a set of locking lugs for each wheel................. |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 12:47 pm: |
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Snowman - yup. Born and lived here all my life. Hmm, they're not bad. I live in 1100 sq ft duplex bungalow unit so my bills aren't insane. I think my last months utility (heat and water) was around $85 CDN but I've heard people who live in houses, sometimes see montly bills of around $250 - $400 CDN (size dependant) a month during the winter season. Power is another $100/month during winter. I'm not sure how that compares to US bills.
Part of it is because of the geography here. We're a little further away from the mountains so tend to see some harsher temps. Calgary is close to the mountains and live in a chinook belt so their temps are typically 5 - 8 degrees warmer.
You get used to it and it's not always like this. Maybe approximately about 2 - 3 weeks out of the winter season does it drop this low. Typically it's around -15 to -8 C during the winter and it's been a lot warmer the last 10 years or so but when cold snaps hit, they hit pretty hard. |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 12:51 pm: |
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But, you have a cool mall to which you can drive your mallcrawler...
-L |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:49 pm: |
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LOL...I guess we do but I hate that place and avoid it like the plague. |
TPH (Snowman)
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 08:34 am: |
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If you don't mind commenting, what do you think of the political chaos in Quebec? We watch it closely here, being near the border. I've heard some crazy stories from Q-becker's concerning the French only push. It gets pretty mean sometimes.
S- |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 12:50 pm: |
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The whole sovereignty thing you're referring to has died down quite a bit compared to a few years back. But as far as Quebec is concerned, it will continue to be an issue for a core group there namely because the leader of this movement won't let it go as do some of the die-hard supporters. They had a referendum several years back and the whole country voted on this sovereignty thing and the result was "no" but it continues to be an issue. It's died down quite a bit though. Some of it even goes back as far as who colonized this country and all the issues with that. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. They want to separate but keep the perks of Canada (like currency...although I'm not sure that's a good thing or not ) but the rest of Canada is bilingual as in most everything has to have instructions posted in both English and French but if you go to Quebec, everything is almost excusively in French. There is very little support the further west you go. I live quite west and in my province, Alberta, people here are about as Anglo Saxon as you're going to get. It's bilingual out here because it's the law but if there was a choice, you wouldn't see any French here. I think people's negativity towards it out here is due to Quebecers pushing and making such an issue of it. Even some of people I work with that were originally from Quebec said they'd never go back because of the insanity. Although I think they have something else to worry about because the second most spoken language is no longer french but one of the asian tongues and there's talk about now adding chinese as a second/third/whatever language here. Personally I don't think people, at least out west anyway, care about this. I'm asian and even I think it's kinda wierd to hear about this new second language thing. Next thing you know, when you flip the cereal box over it will have instructions on how to open the box in 15 different languages. I can think of a lot of better ways to use tax payer dollars.
But ya you're right, it gets pretty mean. You should sit in on a House of Commons (equivalent to your Congress) session sometime. People are MEAN, calling each other names and alluding to each other being nazi-retarded-homosexual-loving-goat-herders and stuff. Kinda funny but in a way, quite sad considering these are your elected representatives. |
TPH (Snowman)
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 01:44 pm: |
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Alan-
Your cereal box comment made me laugh, so true! I found Western Canada so much like the U.S. and so different than Quebec.
S- |
Shawn McKenzie (Shawn)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 02:35 pm: |
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I'm in Calgary, my Mom lives in Montreal (Quebec). I get it from the inside and I basically hear it like this: The rural French folk get the propaganda that a separated Quebec is the only way to get what they want. The public school system there teaches some amazing stuff like Quebec is the only province with a flag (untrue). Quebec "owns" the hydro dam and all the revenue from it (our US friends kicked in millions for that one so they might have something to say about that). Quebec can keep Canadian passports and money after separation. (They wish)
The urban bilingual people that can read English media know it's a joke, but the French unilingual back woods citizens will keep voting to separate. They have been taught it since the first grade. (Quebec maintains the right to set and write the public school lesson plans- guess what they say about the anglos?)
Oh, and the War of 1812 "proved" that Quebec can beat the Americans so they can push around anyone they want. ;)
The Quebec transportation minister flew to France in 2001 to berate his (National) French counterpart for allowing airplanes to land in Paris that had no French speaking crew!!!! If you fly into Quebec, the air traffic controllers prefer French. Insert Twilight Zone music here...
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Shawn McKenzie (Shawn)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 02:39 pm: |
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There is a Canadian military club in Ontario that has a charred piece of wood hanging behind the bar from the first White House.
Damn Canadians went down and torched it. (brought back souvenirs though) |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 04:56 pm: |
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The thing is that from everything I've heard Quebec is a beautiful place to visit and tour but it seems things are a little skewed over there.
Shawn, aren't we painting a pretty picture of Canada here???
Politics aside, Canada has some of the most rugged and raw country you'll see. So ignore our leaders and you'll have a swell time up here. |
TPH (Snowman)
| | Posted on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 10:44 am: |
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I enjoy hearing comments from "real" people and not the filtered media, thanks.
S- |
Alan Yim (Alan)
| | Posted on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 11:01 am: |
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No prob. Anytime. Here's a pic from a trip I took a couple years ago. This photo was taken from a mountain pass and the GPS unit was reading about 9700 vert feet and were still quite a ways from the peak. We were above treeline and even the goats were looking at us funny. We got up there by horse. About 10 of us go on a 3-day trail ride every year. Just guys and as much booze as you can possible pack. This trip there was 9 of us and we took 9 extra pack horses plus 2 guides. The guide had a good chuckle. 2 of the horses packed nothing but booze...nothing like glacier cooled beer.
Leslie - forecast for nextweek...-30C and colder. Damn, this is getting annoying. And mother nature is screwing around with us too. It's been in the -20's this week and then today, it warms up to above zero and the next couple days will be like that and then next week she takes it away from us big time. |
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