Yes. {{sigh}} Or rather, the aftermath:
Putting a new three-prong plug on my car’s heater - which is neutral prong?
And of course, this classic, where my tale of woe comes in towards the end of the second page:
Assholes that steal extension cords in winter should be eligible for life in prison.
:smack: All this time I thought you were female.
Missed edit window: That second thread is worth checking out just for Bryan Eckers’s diagrams on how to lock one’s block heater cord to prevent theft, coupled with the various comments by equally dedicated block heater cord boffins. 
Some places now let women have wives, if they would like them.
I get that a lot. I don’t know why?
I’d like to smirk but I can’t because I did that two weeks ago with my plug in start snowblower. :smack:
The reference to the OP’s “manly duty” was what challenged my assumption, not the wife.
Perhaps it has escaped your notice that millions of people live in apartment complexes. Have you ever seen a garage in an apartment complex?
Here in Colorado Springs, 0 is about the lowest it normally gets. Every single time, I hear at least one person complain that it was too cold for their car to start.
I have an old Chevy that won’t start at that temperature – but it has a carburetor.
That’s why it’s worth the effort to clear out the garage every November and put the car in until April. The garage is partly heated and does not go below 0. It is -8 in Montreal today, but is predicted to go to +3 on Wednesday. OTOH, where I am now (Barbados), it is about +29.
Oh man, you’ve done that more than I thought. I was actually thinking of yet another of your posts. Which, oddly enough, was in a thread I started. I was really proud of that OP.
If the Magnoplug guys ever deliver* I’ll have to send you mine. 
*They have been fighting for two years to get their product approved by UL, but have not yet succeeded.
Oh, that episode.
“I am vast. I contain multitudes.”
And you were right to be proud of that OP. I just re-read it, giggling. 
Me too! I was reading and saw “Mrs” and thought “wait, she’s the Mrs…”
I’ve always enjoyed your posts and picture you as the lady who lives up north in the cold. You’ve shattered my image of you! 
I’m often mistaken for a man on here.
When I was a tyke, we lived up in the real mountains – and area where, a few years back, the was such a snowstorm that the only way some of the ranchers could restock was by mule train. I mean a few years back, not many decades. One night it got to -40, which was a fair bit lower than usual, and my dad did not have a block heater, so he drained the radiator (this was before everyone had sealed cooling systems) and heated the coolant up on the stove.
There’s a minus 30 degrees Celsius? :eek:
Because Piper can be a female first name? Not a very common one, admittedly.
I bet that’s it. I think Piper Laurie comes to mind.
CCA and RC substantially correlate to battery size, but many treacherous car manufacturers chose not to leave enough space for a larger battery tray or a dual battery tray. Those manufacturers shall spend eternity frozen in Dante’s ninth circle of hell.
I’m with the previous poster who thought this would be about an electric car. I have enough problem remembering to plug my phone in. I can imagine if I had to remember to plug in my only method of transportation.
Yes.
There’s also a minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit, which I’ve seen. And, as you probably know, is colder than minus 30 Celsius.
I currently have nothing that plugs in and both vehicles have started at -25 or lower Fahrenheit this winter. I wish I could plug them in as, as mentioned above, it would be a lot easier on the engine.
I did have one that plugged in. I bought a 2004 F150 back in February and, sometime before that, the engine was replaced. They didn’t move the engine block heater from the old engine to the new engine but kept the cord. I found this all out when I came home one day and noticed the engine block heater cord hanging down under the pickup. Good thing I never tried to plug it in.