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[Snow]: A Four Letter Word
AngelHedgie
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Snow.
The White Stuff.
Fluffy Hell From Above.
Merde Bianca.
Whatever you call it, this stuff can be noisome. We just got sent home from work because the local sheriff's department has called for emergency travel only on the roads (and after having a fun time sliding through slush while trying to figure out exactly where the road is, I understand why.) How are you all dealing with your encounters with the cold fluffy terror?
The White Stuff.
Fluffy Hell From Above.
Merde Bianca.
Whatever you call it, this stuff can be noisome. We just got sent home from work because the local sheriff's department has called for emergency travel only on the roads (and after having a fun time sliding through slush while trying to figure out exactly where the road is, I understand why.) How are you all dealing with your encounters with the cold fluffy terror?
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Wait this is just all bad.
PA apparently just gave up and we had to yolo to get through there. Cleveland had crap visibility but by virtue of not being buried in 4.5 feet of snow the prior two days, were able to scatter their plows and salt trucks to keep the roads manageable.
I think I'm good on snow for like 3 more years, k thx
actually, freezing I could deal with. It's currently about 22 degrees below freezing =/
I'm glad the driver of the fire engine was smart enough to recognize that hill was some next-level bullshit best avoided.
I wonder if the guy that slid into the cop was ever able to unclench after, I dunno if I would I would clench so hard as it happened
Snow-adjacent topic
living in the frozen north was a mistake
Admittedly, I am a very delicate flower and my hands get cold easily...but yeah. Our kitchen here has no heat vent or radiator, and one wall is all window'd, so it tends to be the coldest room in the apartment if you're not cooking. The heat in the living room was about 61 degrees before I turned the heat on, which means the kitchen was probably in the upper 50's.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID ahahaha
sixty
one
degrees
it was 59 in our house this morning. I guess 105 years ago when this house was built they didn't feel like insulating =p
the worst is the cold coming from the crawlspace area below. I need to figure out how to insulate, but it's a mess down there
IN MY DEFENSE:
The bedrooms are the only rooms here with doors, the rest of the apartment is open. They tend to heat up way faster than the rest of the apartment. I also like sleeping in a cool room with lots of blankets on me at night, and I learned the other day that leaving the heat at 62 makes the bedrooms WAY too hot for me to sleep comfortably. One of the problems with having a poorly insulated 100 year old apartment. Main areas keep losing heat, so the heat turns on, and the bedrooms become much warmer than intended.
Not a problem for me during the day though.
effing things
lets use the driest loudest method possible to heat a home!
thank god it doesn't actually get bitterly cold in seattle
Okay cool, that's how everyone should do it because that's the correct way.
The radiators here have very VERY loud valves. I was half-asleep the other day and jumped 5 feet in the air because the valve decided to suddenly do an extremely loud "PSHHHHHHHHHH" at 5am.
The one in my bedroom also whistles, which can be funny. Just a very quiet "weeee....weeeoooo, wee, wewewewewew ooooooo....we....WE....WEWEWE"
And I've just discovered that the one in the bathroom sounds like a very slow wet fart.
When I get a house I am tearing out the floors, putting in floor radiant heating, and putting wood or tile down.
Forced air furnaces and radiators make me have bloody noses constantly in the winter I hate it.
Hmmmmm, I'm contemplating changing my signature.
Oh also, when our neighbors first turned their heat on (they started turning theirs on before us) @tynic and I wondered if they were beating the pipes with a wrench because it was so loud.
Turns out, no, that's literally just the sound of their heat (or our heat) coming on.
im just sick of shoveling my driveway constantly
We actually don't seem to get killed with snow as much as a lot of places but it gets fucking brutally cold.
This weekend we're expected to see wind chills down around - 40
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woo?
It's all gone now, replaced with rain.
We had a cold Christmas day of 22C, and i was legitimately chilly. Now I just got off a plane into -22 and there is a strong possibility I will just curl up and die this winter.
Actually I should be back down there around March/April? I'm having a slightly ambivalent feeling about that because I love being there, and the weather is a massive relief, but every year the rats living in the wardrobe of the bedroom I use are getting more numerous and I'm afraid this is going to be the trip they tumble out in an avalanche of furry flesh and I'll be forced to actually deal with the issue.
I could use a room in the other building, which has some resident owls, but last time we were there the roof caved in.