On a positive note I get to play “king of the hill” with my boys (7 and 4 yrs old)… I won again today and they’re sleeping like babies from the whoopin’ I laid on them!!
thats too funny…Was playing that with my nephews (8 and 5)…They fight dirty though…One of them clocked me you know where and took the crown :help
Yeah phlemboy you guys are getting it pretty good. My brother in Lee is about fed up with it…
Keith
You should be able to use the heat wraps like folks use on their mobile homes in parks. They run off of electricity and can be plugged in when needed.
Heat wraps are what they are called. Maybe contact a few MH parks or stores and ask them?
Just a thought,
Nate-WI
The bad weather here in KC has made me so appreciative that I get to sit in a comfortable climate controlled dispatch room. I feel so bad for the police, emt, and fire guys that have to respond to the emergencies in this weather. We had one fire truck get stuck in the snow. Luckily they dug themselves out before the news got there. Lots of annoying people complaining about their streets not being cleared. “I know it is still snowing and there is a lot of snow everywhere but why isn’t my street cleared yet?” Face palm
SEVEN DEGREES BELOW ZERO here last night! The previous record was 3 above. My house made a couple of horrendous cracking noises, have no idea what that was.
The trouble calls began at 4 AM:
“I have no power!”
followed by
“I need to shower to go to work! There is only a trickle of hot water in the shower. Please come over right now and turn up the water pressure, hurry!”
“You are darn lucky to still have hot water in the sink!” I replied. “You can take a sponge bath. We have a nurse in another house who is melting snow on the stove so that she can flush her toilet. You are so lucky to have any water at all.” No happy campers this morning.
Tomorrow will be the day of the unknown busted pipes. After this, the plumber can book Hawaii.
Furnishedowner
It will be saturday or sunday before things thaw out enough in Dallas to know how bad the damage is,there was a news story that plumberes stopped taking calls the last couple of days to stock up trucks to be ready for all the broken pipes this weekend,and I also am sure my plumber will be in Hawaii soon,hopefully I didn’t pay for too much of the trip
Hey Keith. I live about 20 min. from Lee… Nice town. Expensive RE, but nice. We dodged a 10 - 15" bullett the other day when the snowstorm took a turn north… Just waiting for some above above 30 degree weather… There’s a lot of houses with ice damming problems. I’ve been lucky so far. I think its because my eaves are about 2 - 3 feet overhang…
My brother bought an older house several years ago and has been fixing it up a little at a time - he’s down to just needing to do the kitchen. He’s going to have the pros do that. He’s an electrician for a company in Pittsfield.
Ice dams are often an indication of poor attic insulation…the snow can easily melt from the escaping heat and rapidly cools out by/on the eaves…the long New England icicles are the same problem just in a longer form.
Keith
Yeah I was talking to my father in law yesterday about his roof. The ice is not going beyond his eaves yet, just like mine. His attic floor is insulated well, but the chimney is giving off just enough heat to warm the roof. I noticed his eaves don’t have ventilation holes in the siding. He needs to have ventilation coming in from the eaves and go out through a ridge vent… Or he could just put the heated wires on the edge of the roof. They work pretty well.
Even the animals are affected. My handyman, Santiago, lost 3 goats. Froze to death. I told him, “In the olden days, people would have just brought those goats inside for the night.” Nobody back then could afford a loss like that, plus horrible for the animals. What’s a couple of goats in the laundry room overnight, anyways.
I have noted bird behavior here that I’ve never seen before. The long-tailed grackles and doves are SITTING down to eat all that birdseed and dog food off the sidewalk.
I figure it keeps their highly vascular legs warm by tucking them under their downy underbellies.
Furnishedowner
Here in Florida it’s been pretty nice outside… I just moved here from new york because of the weather.