Beyond brutal cold

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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,238
    edited January 2009
    Hopefully my A/C will work when it hits 80 today.

    Wes
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited January 2009
    I-SIG wrote: »
    Hopefully my A/C will work when it hits 80 today.

    Wes

    True that Wes. I turned the AC on in my car because I had dressed up with a long sleeve shirt thinking it was in the 60's only to find out it was 83 degrees at my house.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited January 2009
    NotaSuv,

    I'm in Maine so I understand! It was -18 yesterday morning when my wife got up to drive our daughter to school..with no wind chill.

    Thankfully, at least, heating oil is no longer 4.69 a gallon as it was over summer! Minnesota, though, doesn't get the occasional break in arctic cold that we do as the Atlantic current pushes the Canadian mass north every so often.

    I remember one night years ago visiting a friend in Bangor, getting ready to return home with the non-windchill temps at -36. The gear box in my car was frozen and I couldn't shift into first. I had to wait a half-hour for the car to warm up enough to be able to drive it.

    your,
    cnh
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  • del44
    del44 Posts: 686
    edited January 2009
    -10 this morning. My house was built in the 60's. Single pane glass with storm windows, no match for the cold. Ice on the inside of the window about 3 inches up. Guess it's time to get some replacement windows. I was working outside yesterday building a pole barn at -8. Not too bad if your dressed for it.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited January 2009
    del44 wrote: »
    -10 this morning. My house was built in the 60's. Single pane glass with storm windows, no match for the cold. Ice on the inside of the window about 3 inches up. Guess it's time to get some replacement windows. I was working outside yesterday building a pole barn at -8. Not too bad if your dressed for it.


    we use the heat stretch plastic film by 3M that goes on the inside of the window using double stick tape...use a blow dryer to make it tight..sounds like a drum head when done...our house from the late 40's same crap windows....use storms but they are a loose fit....the plastic stops the ice and keeps ALOT of cold out....
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited January 2009
    OK this still sucks! My Pool is frozen here in "Hot Lanta" My Ex just stopped by to pick up our daughter. I told her "I can't feel my butt. Can you feel my butt?" Didn't go over well:(
    Thursday it is supposed to warm up. I hope so I can't take the cold. I broke way to many bones for this crap:(
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,679
    edited January 2009
    NotaSuv wrote: »
    . use the heat stretch plastic film by 3M .... using double stick tape...use a blow dryer to make it tight..sounds like a drum head when done....a loose fit....the plastic stops the ice and keeps ALOT of cold out....
    ben62670 wrote: »
    OK this still sucks! My Pool is frozen here in "Hot Lanta" My Ex just stopped by to pick up our daughter. I told her "I can't feel my butt. Can you feel my butt?" Didn't go over well:(
    Thursday it is supposed to warm up. I hope so I can't take the cold. I broke way to many bones for this crap:(


    Ben, it sounds as if NotaSuv was referring to your ex in his previous post.


    I may have to file this post in the "Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time" folder.

    .....yeah, I'll probably have to do that.

    ......I suppose it's too late for an "Ooops !".

    ...... :o
    Sal Palooza
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,995
    edited January 2009
    del44 wrote: »
    -10 this morning. My house was built in the 60's. Single pane glass with storm windows, no match for the cold. Ice on the inside of the window about 3 inches up. Guess it's time to get some replacement windows. I was working outside yesterday building a pole barn at -8. Not too bad if your dressed for it.


    This is due to the humidity being high in your house? We have a 2yr old home and when it gets super cold we get sweat on our windows and then it freezes. So I lowered the humidifier we have on our furnace and now not much at all.
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited January 2009
    We got 6 inches of snow here in Raleigh which is a rare occurance. But its supposed to be in the 50's by the end of the week.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited January 2009
    Fireman32 wrote: »
    We got 6 inches of snow here in Raleigh which is a rare occurance. But its supposed to be in the 50's by the end of the week.


    A balmy 25 here with puddles everywhere...but back below zero this weekend they say
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  • del44
    del44 Posts: 686
    edited January 2009
    Willow wrote: »
    This is due to the humidity being high in your house? We have a 2yr old home and when it gets super cold we get sweat on our windows and then it freezes. So I lowered the humidifier we have on our furnace and now not much at all.

    Usually in the winter, I turn the de-humidifier down because the air gets pretty dry in the house if I don't. This is my 12th winter here and the first time I noticed that I had ice on the inside of the windows. You're right, it is caused from cold and humid/warm.
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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,238
    edited January 2009
    Well...my A/C on my truck still works. I haven't had to turn on the A/C on the house yet. The only thing I hate about it being this warm in the day is that the nights aren't as crisp when it's 60 out. :(

    Wes
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  • Igo
    Igo Posts: 411
    edited January 2009
    I-SIG wrote: »
    Well...my A/C on my truck still works. I haven't had to turn on the A/C on the house yet. The only thing I hate about it being this warm in the day is that the nights aren't as crisp when it's 60 out. :(

    Wes

    Yeah. I feel your pain SIG. It was a tolerable 75 here in Vegas today but its a frigid 66 here at dark:30.
    :p
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited January 2009
    Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah. Last year I was in Ft lUaderdale around this time. I could have been at the reef diving today:( I just peed my pants to warm up. It feels nice for now:)
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    Ben
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited January 2009
    ben62670 wrote: »
    Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah. Last year I was in Ft lUaderdale around this time. I could have been at the reef diving today:( I just peed my pants to warm up. It feels nice for now:)

    Tried that while out shoveling snow the other day. It's great 'til it freezes back over :(
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited January 2009
    nadams wrote: »
    Tried that while out shoveling snow the other day. It's great 'til it freezes back over :(

    LOL. Turtled up:D
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited January 2009
    My 5 YO and I are "camping" next to the fireplace tonight:)
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited January 2009
    Thats where I will be for the next few days...........was 30 yesterday felt like summer time :) and now this again...............

    URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
    NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
    406 AM CST FRI JAN 23 2009
    ...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS EXPECTED FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY
    MORNING...
    .THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT THIS MORNING HAS ALLOWED FOR A COLD
    ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE TO BEGIN FILTERING INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST.
    THE HIGH WILL CAUSE TEMPERATURES TO PLUMMET OVERNIGHT...ALLOWING
    LOW TEMPERATURES TO GET BETWEEN 10 AND 20 BELOW ZERO SATURDAY
    MORNING. TO GO ALONG WITH THE BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES...
    NORTHWEST WINDS OF 5 TO 15 MPH WILL RESULT IN DANGEROUS WIND CHILL
    READINGS BETWEEN 25 AND 35 BELOW ZERO FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY
    MORNING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST
    CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE COLDEST WIND CHILL READING WILL OCCUR
    FRIDAY MORNING ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA...WHERE SEVERAL HOURS OF
    WIND CHILLS BETWEEN 30 AND 40 BELOW ZERO WILL BE POSSIBLE.
    A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS
    WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN
    FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN.
    IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND
    GLOVES.
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  • Igo
    Igo Posts: 411
    edited January 2009
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    sooner or later somebody is going to kick my arse.
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited January 2009
    Finally got a break here. It is 61 degrees. I just need to wait till my bones thaw.
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    Ben
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited January 2009
    I had to look at your fireplace pic to warm up today at work......heater unit on roof was out for 4 hours..was gettin a lil chilly here...inside.....
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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,238
    edited January 2009
    Low 60's and drizzling. :) BEAUTIFUL weather.

    Wes
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  • nikolas812
    nikolas812 Posts: 2,915
    edited January 2009
    Just when I thought we was in the clear....:(





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  • Igo
    Igo Posts: 411
    edited January 2009
    I'd love that for about a week each winter then I'd just sick of it after that.
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    Sony ES SACD SCD-C2000ES
    Sony 400 Disc CD CDP-CX455
    Infinity BU-2 Sub-Woofer
    Polk Audio RT800i Towers
    Polk Audio CS400i Center
    Polk Audio FXiA6 Surrounds
    Sennheiser HD 280 Pro Headphones
    DH-Labs T-14 Speaker Cables
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  • nikolas812
    nikolas812 Posts: 2,915
    edited January 2009
    It would be fine if we had power.


    I can't work without power....:(







    Nick
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  • del44
    del44 Posts: 686
    edited January 2009
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