what is the WORST month

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LMFAO Roger!!!! November is going pretty good here so far....

 

[kiwigtx]

LMFAO Roger!!!! November is going pretty good here so far....
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Thanks....and a very nice car you have there Wayne.

January is probably my bogey month. New Zealand effectively shuts down during January.....everyone is in summer holiday mode. If you're wanting to work on a car, parts shops are nearly all closed, shipping grinds to a halt, and nobody seems to give a crap unless it involves beer or BBQ.

I have to think in advance of all the stuff I need if I plan to do any work over Christmas and beyond. I had to order a distribution board for a job during the last week of December today, just to have a fighting chance of getting delivery before everyone goes full-retard with Christmas carols and boozy nights. That means ordering all the small parts as well. My electrical supplier is open on all non-statutory holidays....but even they struggle to get stuff we need. If their suppliers are closed...that's it.

 

[rumblefish360]

Do you regret moving to FL? I know a few people who do.

So far, 2-1/2 years here, no regrets. I miss a few people, some foods, a few places, that’s it. Not a huge deal. I do travel back for family on Long Island since traveling is not an option for them. That’s when I’ll also call up a few friends.

Florida is not for everybody. Summer is long and brutally hot.
I traded winter months of do nothing for summer months of no A/C car driving but I can still tinker, go to the beach, fish on shore or boat & so on & on & on, where winter up north limits darn near everything.

Garage is not heated, even when I did heat it up, the metal is crazy cold. Being a life time mechanic and outdoors on heavy equipment, the hands scream at me. I do not in any way shape or form miss wrenches freezing/sticking to my hands defying gravity or snow/melting snow when I was at work or home soaking my boats and clothes.

I don't mind dealing with some cold days, rather than 8 months of sweaty humidity.

For me, there’s no fun in working on cold metal. Cool and cold days are one thing but the further on the extreme it goes the less happy I am. Winter lows at night here can go to the low 30’s where I am at. Each winter so far has had 1 night go to 28*’s.

No big whoop in my book after wrenching on heavy equipment when it’s minus 23*’s and/or during a Nor’easter or winter storm where the winds are 25-35-40 mph and gusting higher. Snow falling where sight stops in less than 50 feet and your partner disappears in the sideways snow.

All of this you have experienced I’m sure. But I don’t anymore and I’m good with the heat in a big way. I don’t mind 90/95. Though I’m not doing anything stressful that would lay me out in short order. Besides, that’s what central A/C is for. It’s everywhere. It’s not an issue. Unless you’re out at the beach, park, ocean, etc. Then there’s always the car to chill in and go home in.

This week is cool by compare by most days only getting to 77 with cloudy skies and rain.

 

[PlymCrazy]

I definitely don't like December thru end of March because there is nearly zero chance of me getting the cars out.
But those months are much more bearable when the temps get 40 or above. We do typically catch a break here and there.
At least in those temps I can still wrench and tinker with the cars.
That's good medicine for the winter blues for this guy.

My goal to heat the shop has been a slow process.
Hoping to have it finished by the the time the big "R" is here and I can spend a lot more time in there.

 

[68BabyBlue]

Now that I'm retired from truck driving it doesn't make nearly as much difference. Picture below was taken in January, truck had only one day of road salt on it after running I-80 across PA. Single digit weather with gelled fuel filters and frozen air lines in January and February used to make my life miserable.

 

[Cranky]

Now that I'm retired from truck driving it doesn't make nearly as much difference. Picture below was taken in January, truck had only one day of road salt on it after running I-80 across PA. Single digit weather with gelled fuel filters and frozen air lines in January and February used to make my life miserable.
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What's it cost to run that rig through a truck wash?

A bit ESE of Houston and 9 miles west of Galveston Bay means high humidity most times. 85 degree evenings with 85% humidity makes me not want to be outside but it's when the temps are above normal in the summer that's killer. The highest temp I recorded here was 106 and if I have to do anything out under the carport, a water sprinkler goes up on top of it.

 

[68BabyBlue]

What's it cost to run that rig through a truck wash?

A bit ESE of Houston and 9 miles west of Galveston Bay means high humidity most times. 85 degree evenings with 85% humidity makes me not want to be outside but it's when the temps are above normal in the summer that's killer. The highest temp I recorded here was 106 and if I have to do anything out under the carport, a water sprinkler goes up on top of it.

I never paid for one, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $100 for the whole rig at the time I retired. Fringe benefit of hauling hazardous waste was the plant had a wash area, barely visible in the lower right hand corner of the photo, where I washed the whole unit for free, to remove the bad stuff after loading was completed. Stuff I'm loading in the picture wasn't so bad, but the the second portion of the load was laced with lead and cadmium, and used to cover the top of the trailer.

 

[PlymCrazy]

Now that I'm retired from truck driving it doesn't make nearly as much difference. Picture below was taken in January, truck had only one day of road salt on it after running I-80 across PA. Single digit weather with gelled fuel filters and frozen air lines in January and February used to make my life miserable.
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Between your pic and the description you gave, I can almost hear you saying; "I don't miss days like that."

 

[Charger72]

Around my parts it's February, the government even created the Holiday Family Day, in part because we have no holidays in February and the weather is pretty harsh and cold and a lot of folks get more depressed.

 

[68BabyBlue]

Between your pic and the description you gave, I can almost hear you saying; "I don't miss days like that."

How true! I chuckle when folks with no ties to the trucking business ask me if I miss driving now that I'm done.

 

[XS22J8R]

Looking back over the decades, I'd have to say my worst memories weatherwise are December. The shortest days of the year are pretty miserable for me. Although recent years have been pretty tame, the crappiest patterns of bitter cold and snow here in my lifetime have mostly been in December. By sometime in mid to late January, the days are getting noticeably longer, and at least when I leave the office, it's still light out for part of my commute home.
I worked for 14 years at a company that was a nearly 30 mile commute from my house and didn't have flex hours at all. I still have PTSD from some December days back then, crawling along at 10-15 mph in blizzards most of the trip in the dark, arriving at work after over 1-1/2 or more hours of that misery already exhausted from the arduous trek, just to find a gauntlet of sociopath coworkers and my manager waiting for me as I stumbled into the office, pointing at their watches and berating me for being late.
Then at 5:00, setting off for the trip home on slippery icy roads in the dark, with salt spray obstructing my vision out the windshield so it was hard to see the road.
My employer now shuts down for the last week of December, has flex time, and since Covid, I work from home a couple days of the week anyway, and also if we got a real bad snow, I'm OK saying I am working from home instead of driving in it. Pretty easy peazy compared to my life back then.
But that PTSD from December's at that hellhole I worked at in the 90s and early 2000s will haunt me for life!!!

 

[eldubb440]

depends who's coming to visit

 

[71RRHI]

July through October can be hot. If the trade winds stop, it can get humid also. The rest of the year is pretty nice here

 

[Pops1967GTX]