{"id":6099,"date":"2014-01-07T21:08:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2014-01-07T21:08:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:08:32","slug":"so-it-got-cold-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"So. It Got Cold in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we made it home Saturday. Then it snowed. Then it got cold. The diesel didn&#8217;t start when we got home (not because of any diesel fuel issue but because of a dead battery). Since it was snowing &#8230; and today it was -20 F we didn&#8217;t trickle charge it yet. We&#8217;re going to charge it tomorrow and then try starting it Wednesday when the temps are supposed to get north of 10. \u00a0We&#8217;ve discovered some things about packed snow, ice, and salt. \u00a0When temps are below -15 salt doesn&#8217;t do squat. Snow melted\/softened by salt which then is cooled below 10 or 15 below is hard as a rock. Squeeky snow (which is snow below 0) is very slippery on the roads. The only solution is to go slow &#8230; and finally, I live on a road which is on about a 15% grade. You can&#8217;t drive up it for the last few days. You can only go down. If your speed gets above about 5mph &#8230; you&#8217;re out of control and won&#8217;t be able to stop without pinwheeling a it. Creeping is only way.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder, the difference between 60 and 20 is the same as the difference between 20 and -20. Think of what you wear at 60 compared to 20. Stay warm out there if you&#8217;re out and about in this arctic blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we made it home Saturday. Then it snowed. Then it got cold. The diesel didn&#8217;t start when we got home (not because of any diesel fuel issue but because of a dead battery). Since it was snowing &#8230; and today it was -20 F we didn&#8217;t trickle charge it yet. We&#8217;re going to charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consider-the-following","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}