Stay warm and safe

[Bloodhammer]

Though, like driving in the snow, you don't worry about the people who have to do it all the time, just the people who see it rarely and have no idea how to deal with it. That's where the danger lies.

So sub-zero temperatures are way more dangerous for people who are usually in the above-freezing range than they are to people who deal with that all winter long.

Besides, many people who live in houses that aren't properly outfitted for cold temperatures have an additional struggle on their hands.

This is what sucks for me. It's been in the 30s during the day and in the 20s or 10s at night, here. Nothing bad, but DAMN my house won't heat up! The heater runs non-stop and I can feel the cold breezes coming through door jambs, windows, and all the other millions of cracks in my completely uninsulated house. It's one of those that was built in the 1920s that's above the ground so that it has a sort of crawlspace that's not a crawlspace. There's just two feet of empty air between the dirt and the floorboards with no cinder blocks to wall it in, so the wind blows under the house as well as around it.

A few years back, the pilot light would go out while I was sleeping on cold nights just because **** me, that's why.

I had that fixed.

 

[burk48237]

Well, we hit -18 F last night and got up to 1 F today (not wind chill, actual temp). That was the coldest I recall living here (SE MI) for about 50 years. We're at -2 right now but we're climbing up to a balmy 18 tomorrow. I'm breaking out the flip flops and cargo shorts. The roads around here are literally coated with an icy crud, and salt won't melt anything until we hit about 25.

 

[Munjibunga]

It only got up to about 68 today, but we'll stay above 50 tonight. Chilly, but not too bad.

 

[MAJOR METAL]

I am so relieved to be back in California!

 

[Schlyder]

- 36c here again.

 

[DwaynieAD]

we're having a warm streak, only dropped to 4 last night

 

[iamlowsound]

-17*C here, all the roads in my county and the surrounding three are still closed. I can't get to work for the second day in a row.

lowsound

 

[BCB50]

We shut down the trucking to our working locations tonight. Freezing rain and black ice. The locals aren't use to driving on it. Before the sun was down several wrecks and a fatality down the road from my office. I was out in the field shutting down a location to get my guys home.

 

[Munjibunga]

Supposed to 77° here Monday, then 80° on Tuesday and Wednesday. The red flag fire warnings are already on. It'll still be very cold at night - the low 50s.