Sorry, meant 5 school days in a row.
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Friday was close for snow. Monday - Thursday has been for cold. I thought we could of had school on Monday myself, but I don't make that call.
I teach in a very rural district area. Buses have a lot ridge roads to deal with. Even UW-Madison closed for cold some this week, which hardly ever happens.
Sorry, if my original statement wasn't clear. When I said bad stretch of weather, I was including snow &/or cold. Prior to last week, we hadn't had any snow days.
We missed 3-4 days of school at the start of the school year for flooding, too. That has happened a number of times in the past few years. They call them 100 year floods, but it seems like we've had 5 or 6 of them in the past 10 years.
Roads go underwater, landslides block roads, & houses are destroyed. This is some serious stuff! Check out this clip - It's a house by Lake Delton area (part of Wisconsin Dells) about 10 years ago. This is more than a little bit of water causing some damage to your basement!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkfhuvOGbmI
Oh okay you guys must have got a bunch of snow Friday. Yeah Mon was not bad at all here so I'm guessing even warmer in WI considering the path of the cold coming down from Canada. The superintendent probably wanted a vacation haha.
That video is crazy. I know the dells is known for water but that's going too far. I love the dells.
My Mirage took 3 efforts to start at 3 AM last night in southern Ontario, Canada nearish Detroit, polar vortex -25 F and C and the digital stuff went all virusy looking. Sound of the USB a-ok so that's cool
Hardest week on the car so far, I'm here to type the tale so I can't really complain... watch for build up of ice around the wheel well bad, and then the car doesn't drive centre... anyway can't complain compared to what others drive... tho it's a bad car for heat, you either get your windshield defrosted, mostly, OR you get mediocre heat for your body and your feet. Or your feet
Your Yaris is a rebadged Mazda and there is no way in hell you've ever gotten 49 mpg. C'mon man lying on the internet? It wont fill that void in your soul, unless of course you park a Mirage in it. Attachment 15037
Now, now, Dirk.
I have no trouble believing that 49 MPG US is doable with a manual trans in an iA / Yaris / Mazda2 / whatever. In pretty ideal conditions.
It's a pretty old post and methinks that OP took a instant mpg value and ran with it. If you go on fuelly and look at averages, the Mazda2 isn't delivering anywhere close to that mpg. His last visit to the forum was the day after tossing that little nugget and hasn't been back.
It's definitely doable. I have gotten those numbers from a comparable modern 1.6L Nissan 4-banger manual, with a very similar EPA rating.
Ideal conditions means: warm weather, dry roads, no A/C use, moderate speeds, short shifting into top gear ASAP, looking well ahead to avoid braking when possible, and use of neutral coasting or deceleration fuel cut-off in gear depending on which is appropriate for the situation.
That said, a manual Mirage driven in the same manner in the same conditions will be closing in on (or surpassing) 60 mpg.