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Old 12-09-2009, 07:03 PM
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Sun's out up here as well....

Too cold still to go out without a jacket...and the wind is whipping it up.....

At least it's stopped raining...for now....
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Old 12-09-2009, 07:07 PM
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Qingdai, y'all need to pick up a couple little ceramic heaters while you wait. They're very cheap and one tiny little heater can handle a good-sized room.
Please to tell me where to get one. :beg: Would I have to go to that nasty Wal-Mart place?
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Old 12-09-2009, 07:08 PM
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It's been below freezing for several days now, a rare occurence here in Eugene.

So much for global warming!
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Old 12-09-2009, 07:13 PM
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Qingdai, y'all need to pick up a couple little ceramic heaters while you wait. They're very cheap and one tiny little heater can handle a good-sized room.
Please to tell me where to get one. :beg: Would I have to go to that nasty Wal-Mart place?
Your helpful friendly hardware place, Ace Hardware.
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Qingdai, y'all need to pick up a couple little ceramic heaters while you wait. They're very cheap and one tiny little heater can handle a good-sized room.
Please to tell me where to get one. :beg: Would I have to go to that nasty Wal-Mart place?

Lowes or any local hardware store would have them...
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Old 12-09-2009, 07:14 PM
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Qingdai, y'all need to pick up a couple little ceramic heaters while you wait. They're very cheap and one tiny little heater can handle a good-sized room.
Please to tell me where to get one. :beg: Would I have to go to that nasty Wal-Mart place?
Oh, hells no. I don't remember where I got mine, but I'm sure you can find them at any store that sells electric heaters -- Target, Home Depot, etc. They're just little heaters with a fan, but they have a ceramic disk thingie inside that distinguishes them from the more old-fashioned ones with the glowing coils. The term "ceramic" refers to what's inside them; on the outside they're just a metal box. They are better than the coil type ones both by being more efficient and by being far less of a fire hazard.

Mine is at least 15 years old. It's about a 1-foot cube or so, and if I stick it in a bedroom at night it'll keep the whole room warm on the coldest of nights. I got it when I lived in a drafty in-law apartment in San Francisco with no central heating.

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Old 12-09-2009, 09:03 PM
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laugh, A buddy of in mine up in Yellowknife says they're getting a wind chill advisory up there.

its dropping down -40 Friday, with a minus -65 windchill, thats in degrees centigrade. so roughly -85F

thats frost bite in seconds kind of cold...sucks to be him
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Old 12-09-2009, 11:18 PM
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Jeezuz!

Uh...it's a balmy summer day here in comparison. Last I checked, it was 29 degrees Fahrenheit outside.
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Old 12-10-2009, 12:33 AM
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Mine is at least 15 years old.
The one I have at work is at least that old. Boss Man gave it to me when I first came to work there because the A/C has always been wonky. (I have been known to have the heater on at my feet in the middle of a summer heat wave.)

If I could find one just like that--or bigger--I would be a verruh happy camper, indeed.
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Old 12-10-2009, 01:23 AM
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It's almost christmas break AND we got a snow day, so MUAH!

Love the bitter freezing cold.
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Old 12-10-2009, 02:39 PM
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We've got great weather to-day. Sunny bright and warm. :happysun:
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Old 12-10-2009, 03:10 PM
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12°?!

ITS FUCKING COLD AND SNOWING

Where's the cat? Oh shit. Fluffy's frozen
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Old 12-10-2009, 03:55 PM
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10°F low this morning, 17°F now.

CHEESE CRIPES ITS DARN NEAR COLD.

Maybe I should wear a jacket now.
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Old 12-10-2009, 04:26 PM
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14°?!

ITS FUCKING COLD

I'm sorry.

It's now a nice 62º inside though. I spent yesterday morning with the electrician and last night with the Heating guy. It's amazing the feeling of relief you get with a working heating system.
Thanks, I did have three electric heaters running, a ceramic one, an oil coil one and a fancy one that my brother-in-law gave us. With good insulation (both the heater guy and the electrician complemented us on our insulation, apparently we have a good "envelope") and those three heaters, we were able to keep the house up to 52º.
So no frozen pipes or anything.
Although I didn't pull my cabbages and they are perfectly frozen outside. I guess they will make good compost.
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Old 12-10-2009, 04:31 PM
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Yesterday our gas logs in the fireplace wouldn't stay lit, so I finally broke down and called the neighbor who runs a heating & cooling business. They installed my outside air conditioner unit summer before last. While waiting on them, I dismantled the fireplace logs and found the pilot thermocouple probe carboned up (burnt). I sanded some of the carbon off with emery cloth and put it back together. The pilot has stayed lit ever since. The technician did virtually the same thing to the furnace. The thermocouple switch that tells the furnace computer that the fire is lit was corroded. He cleaned it up with a file and reinstalled. Now it works. No charge. It might help that we're keeping the neighbor's horses in our pasture for free.
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Old 12-10-2009, 04:34 PM
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Sounds like the least they could do!

My husband tried that on our furnace, but it wasn't grounded and the whole circuit board was fried.
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Old 12-10-2009, 05:20 PM
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The circuit board in my furnace has been replaced twice in the last 3 years. Stupid computerized low emissions high efficiency sumbitches anyway.
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Old 12-10-2009, 06:32 PM
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fuck......the weather forecast now says that -40 weather is coming my way. I suppose thats what i get for laughing at my friends up north.
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Old 12-10-2009, 07:02 PM
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Well, not too bad here, 6°F with a windchill of -15, but I've been out in it and it wasn't awful, sunny and crisp. As long as I keep something over my face, I'm good with it.
And I had long undies on, of course.
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Old 12-10-2009, 09:28 PM
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No Moon, no stars, no wind either.

It's not raining - I guess that means a warmish night :)
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Old 12-10-2009, 10:42 PM
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14°?!

ITS FUCKING COLD
AND SNOWING

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28°?!

ITS FUCKING COLD

You think this is cold? Have you been to upstate New York?
Radio said 31 with wind chill of 21. At least it's :sun: sunneh. Either way, I'm indoors, so whatever.

Tomorrow's supposed to be colder, with :intherain: rain and sleet.
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Old 12-11-2009, 03:04 PM
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18°F with no wind this morning. It's already 24°, heading for a high of 46°F.
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Old 12-11-2009, 03:20 PM
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:meh:

Took an hour to properly defrost my truck this morning.

And it was so cold this morning, it hurt like hell walking from the parking lot to my work trailor.

At least it's sunny and not raining/snowing.....(yet)
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Old 12-11-2009, 03:35 PM
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It's still 7:degrees:C or something but temps are gonna drop over the weekend and we might even get snow here as well :ohnoes:
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