Posted on 12/24/2022 7:45:31 AM PST by Lazamataz
I live in an early-60's-build house. For the most part, it's wonderful, but it has very little insulation. I've been meaning to rectify that, but didn't yet.
So, after spending a warm night buried under blankets, I wake up to a shivering-cold set of rooms, all under 60 degrees F.... even though me and the missus set all the baseboard heating to max and left both space heaters going.
So, I decide to go to Walmart. I find two pallets of space heaters, one of them Infra-red, and one of them Oil-radiant. Both are electric.
I go ahead and put one of each in my cart, get a few food items, then decide to pick up one more Infra-red heater.... maybe 5 minutes later.
BOTH PALLETS ARE CLEANED OUT... when I get to the register, everyone had a pair of those heaters in their cart.
In spite of heat mats and a radiant heater all of the plants in my greenhouse are frozen and likely dead.
Mother Nature needs a prozac.
We just ordered a generac generator to cover power outages.
Restricting fuel and trying to replace it with wind and solar is a bad formula.
Apparently, Blackrock and Vanguard will be using their financial power to purchase shares and force change.
it has been about 50 in my bedroom and down to -18 lately. Plenty of firewood for the mornings. This morning I woke up to running water. lucky enough it was a stool did not shut off. FedEx delivered my food when it was below Zero. Electric blanket is the best part of winter.
In northern Colorado, where it was below zero for 40+ hours, I spent most of yesterday either getting or giving jump starts. I have two vehicles, and can usually start one with the other, but yesterday they were both dead. Turn the key and just get clicks. So a bunch of neighbours got together to help get everyone’s cars started.
In the USA ( Va.) to get a fireplace insert they make you get a flue liner which doubles the cost. It’s a racket...
Well said.
I keep our temp at 77 normally, last night it got down to 73, it was 47 outside this morning, brrrr! Iām in far southwest Florida, thank you very much God! Been living here 6 years and have never turned on the heat. We do have those hurricanes, tho.
I was worried about my utility car (its an old Lexus, 1998, super reliable... I’ll never get rid of it!)
But it started right up. Old Faithful, I call her.
This morning I found out where there are leaks around certain doors in house that I did not know were there. Duct tape to the rescue! We’re in FL so not that big of a deal, but now I realize my AC is having to overcome the leaks in the summer.
Man i Froze last night in bed....of course i forgot to close the window that was open a crack.
I was too cold to crawl out of bed to close it lol.
currently a windy 15 degrees outside..
Currently 25 degrees in Myrtle Grove, Florida, at 10am CT, just west of Pensacola. My heat is at 68. I would have it much lower for this weather, but I’m using it to keep pipes in my crawl space from freezing. It’s keeping up so far, and I’m hoping that it doesn’t burn itself out over the next couple days.
As for my crawl space, I covered all the openings with 4 mil plastic sheeting, secured with heavy tape that seems to be mostly holding on against the cold. Not sure how much good that will do, but it should keep the wind out, at least. I wrapped both my hose bibs in towels and secured them in place with that heavy tape.
Also dripping all my faucets, as well as the master bath shower head, and I occasionally run them to re-supply warmer water to the pipes. I have all sink cabinet doors wide open to let heat in.
Poor baby. 47 deg F. How did you survive?
Our place is drafty. Cheap old single glass layer windows from mobile home.
I think we have enough wood for the rest of the cold snap. Also running two cheapo space heaters aimed at our feet and a Big Buddy propane heater for the boy to use at night because his room tends to run about 10 degrees cooler.
I hadn’t taken his window AC out yet and ended up doing it a couple of nights ago. That window has three panes and cranks open. I had to replace the lower two panes and the screws are tiny. That meant no gloves in 12 degree temps with 30 mph gusts. I could only do one at a time.
Gonna hit 19 degrees today but still windy. High of 26 tomorrow with little wind will be a nice change. High of 59 on Thurs will feel like summer.
Rolling blackouts.
People will get cold.
Pipes will freeze.
Furnaces will burn out.
That’ll teach that Putin!
Did you mean to tell us your bathroom habits? LOL
It’s up to 28 degrees in DFW. Couple more days of warming weather, and this brief spate of freezing weather will be a distant memory.
I live in an old Victorian house. No insulation in the walls. The plaster is filled with horse hair, however. That has an R value of about 1.
When I turn up the heat, the house takes a little while to warm up. Sometimes it takes until late April before it warms up.
I have a friend, an inlaw-by-daughter of my beloved girlfriend, who forgot to drip his faucets. Everything is frozen. He will have one very big expense when things thaw.
My house is warm and fine and burning propane at an unGodly rate. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Mother Nature needs to be taken out back and shot.
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