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Brrrrr Leave Me Alone...
One thing we are learning is to take the "winterize your car" advice seriously. When we moved up here we had all kinds of things done to our car. Winter wipers, new snow tires, bought a set of chains, had a block heater installed along with a battery warmer, a good oil change... but we assumed that our battery would be fine. Sure it's a little old, but its never had any problems before, and we have the heater... apparantly this is not good enough.
This morning when I went to warm up the car to drive Lyndsay to work it almost never started. The car made that same sound that it does when the battery is pretty much dead, whining and turning over very slowly... then it fired up. I have a feeling our old battery doesnt really like living up here in Dease Lake. Batteries up here, I can only assume would be, very expensive. As a result, we are going to see how long we can get this one to last. At Christmas time when we are on the Island visiting family we'll pick up a new one - assuming this one lasts that long.
So my word of advice - when you winterize your car to move up here, be sure you have a good battery. If you have to buy one here, you'll be spending a pretty penny as freight is not cheap when you are 7 hours away from anywhere.
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