I took this picture this morning, a lot more snow to come, it's been the coldest january in 10 years in Quebec. I think I'm going to get a SUV

 

Toronto has been pretty cold, although we haven't had as much snow as you guys...

Last week I did spend quite a bit of time shovelling though...

Andre how is your Mustang in the snow?

 

It's not that bad really, I've got some good snow tires and I never get stuck...but last fall I installed H&R springs and it lowered the car about 1.5 inches, now I can hear the undercarriage dragging in the snow sometimes and I don't like that, I might have to get another car for winter driving.

 

I like Jimmy Buffet's take (either):
The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful...
or
It's Christmas in the Caribbean, we got everything but snow!!

 

Andre you need to take up skiing my friend.

...and get a winter beater.

 

I'm lucky, my wife has the Mazda Tribute for the winter, i drive the E-150 from the company that i can get to keep home all the time, and the 'Stang is sleeping in the garage till April 1st....

 

The only thing better than a winter beater is a company car.

 

Aren't they like ... one in the same

 

How many of you guys have winter beaters ?

It's not something I want really, I don't even have a garage to store the mustang, and it's like double everything, the purchase cost, insurance, maintenance, registration plus you are driving a crappy car four or five months a year...

Maybe my next car should be more practical but I would miss the power of a V8...

 

André maybe i can loan you a space in my garage for the winter, where exactly do you live in Montréal...I'm up in Laval.....by the way, you gotta find time to come to our Mustang get together starting in April, same location as last year, Tim Horton's parking lot.....hope to see you there....

 

Thanks for the offer Daniel but I'm not sure I would want to buy a winter beater, I will have to think about that, I live in Pierrefonds on the island of Montreal near Sources and Gouin. By the way, you should be called "Laval Ponies"

 

I know, but these guys wouldn't know where that is.....so that's why i called myself Montreal ponies.....you could be called "Pierrefond ponies"!

 

In response to this, Its pretty crappy right now. The south is getting slammed with a nasty line thats about 100mi long.. heavy wind, rain, hail and alot of tornado warnings. Btw, I am posting this on my laptop that is running off battery cause we dont have power

 

tornado watch, we don't know what that is over here! You probably heard of the '98 ice storm we got here in Quebec....i'll probably never live to see that again....at the worst of the storm about 4 million(out of 7million) people without electricity ranging from has short as a few hours to 3 weeks....I was lucky enough in this town, to only miss it for a few hours a couple of times, mostly during the night.....we got this close to a major disaster, hospitals going down, so as water plants facilities.....and i could go on and on......you probably get the picture i'm sure...

 

Interesting Fact: A lot of babies were born 9 months after the ice storm

 

It's funny that you mention that Steve....I got my kid in October of 1999......interesting, i guess i waited after the ice storm...