Matt in Salem

I was reading the posts from the last couple of days and saw this so I checked in on my birthplace of Fairbanks: current Temp. is -44 after a low of -49 this am and a high of -38 this pm. I was born in late Sept. and my Mother told me it was 0* that morning in Fairbanks which she said was a bit unusual---She said they normally don't get their 1st 0* until sometime in Oct. I like snow and cold but Fairbanks is a little extreme cold wise. I'm glad she moved to Oregon when I was a little tyke!

Quite often it seems like we get a couple of nice low to mid 50's days in late January but this mid 60's for my area is just ridiculous! I'll be tempted to dust off the golf clubs for a trip to the range but I know the golf course will be far too soggy to try with the amount of precip. we've had this month!

New member here and I was looking through the last couple of days posts and ran across this and thought I'd share my VW bug experience. In 1970 my Dad bought me a used '64 bug with 90K miles on it for $800---He told me this car will get you through college and then when you get a job you can buy yourself a real car! I had to floor the gas pedal to get it up to 65mph so I was always driving it with the pedal to the metal on any open road. The heater and defroster were both terrible---about 15 minutes into my drives I would start to feel a slight smidgen of warmth if I was lucky! 2 years later and 35K more miles on it I had it floored as usual and "nuked the motor"---We got it towed to Sid's VW shop in Salem, Or. and he put a rebuilt engine in it---total job cost was $275 and it came with a 1 yr. warranty. It seemed like a pretty good deal and turned out to be----got me through college and my first year on my new job and then I had enough $ to buy my real car!