It’s definitely a formidable storm out there, but I’m safe and warm.
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I still have power – for now — 12 Comments
Stay safe and warm, Neo. Make it cozy!
So do I, for the time being– hoping that saying so won’t be a jinx. Strange combination of sounds outside: howling wind plus the noise of the first snowblowers emerging from hibernation. The forecast is for “light snow” (whatever that means) to continue until 7 p.m. or thereabouts, so it may be that the worst is over for southwestern CT. I hope you continue to have both heat and power.
Thanks for the update! I know I speak for others when I say there are many of us concerned for you and the other neophiles in the Northeast.
Our worries wane when we hear you are weathering the weather well (thus far).
Neo:
Stay safe in thrawl to the throw.
Maybe you would enjoy hearing about Maggie Roche’s winter coat:
I survived last year’s Texas deep freeze without power for 40 hours. This year, I have a 24kW whole home backup generator. Stay safe and warm.
I estimate that we’ve had about two feet of snow so far, not too bad. It’s 16 F which means the snow will be very light and puffy. A couple of hours with the snowblower will clear it all out. It just has to stop soon…
Glad to hear this. Stay safe and warm.
Leland, I thought you needed at least 26kW to be fully secure. 🙂
Maybe that’s only for when you need to run the AC, too.
More seriously – they can design passive heated houses in Germany that don’t use any heating source beyond occupants and other normal energy uses. Why don’t we see more of that here. And I have never heard of any city planners or major contractors, or very many customers, worrying about solar orientation of houses in their subdivisions.
It’s not just the north suffering from the cold. Down here on the Gulf coast people are terrified that the temperature may drop below freezing for several hours. 🙂
We in the mid-Hudson valley did not get very much in the way of depth of snow, though such as it was, it made for a messy drive this morning. My hat goes off to Neo, Paul in [but not of?] Boston, and PA+Cat.
R2L:
Regarding those super effecient houses. Fine Homebuilding, which has gotten very politically correct over the last 15 years, often has articles about construction methods for such homes. Very expensive. Very very expensive, But don’t worry they are all in on building codes that would require such edifices to Gaia.
It recently had an editorial about the anguish a builder on Martha’s Vineyard suffered; building luxury second homes instead of housing for the masses … or some such rot.
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Stay safe and warm, Neo. Make it cozy!
So do I, for the time being– hoping that saying so won’t be a jinx. Strange combination of sounds outside: howling wind plus the noise of the first snowblowers emerging from hibernation. The forecast is for “light snow” (whatever that means) to continue until 7 p.m. or thereabouts, so it may be that the worst is over for southwestern CT. I hope you continue to have both heat and power.
Thanks for the update! I know I speak for others when I say there are many of us concerned for you and the other neophiles in the Northeast.
Our worries wane when we hear you are weathering the weather well (thus far).
Neo:
Stay safe in thrawl to the throw.
Maybe you would enjoy hearing about Maggie Roche’s winter coat:
https://youtu.be/st4VZizGnMw
I survived last year’s Texas deep freeze without power for 40 hours. This year, I have a 24kW whole home backup generator. Stay safe and warm.
I estimate that we’ve had about two feet of snow so far, not too bad. It’s 16 F which means the snow will be very light and puffy. A couple of hours with the snowblower will clear it all out. It just has to stop soon…
Glad to hear this. Stay safe and warm.
Leland, I thought you needed at least 26kW to be fully secure. 🙂
Maybe that’s only for when you need to run the AC, too.
More seriously – they can design passive heated houses in Germany that don’t use any heating source beyond occupants and other normal energy uses. Why don’t we see more of that here. And I have never heard of any city planners or major contractors, or very many customers, worrying about solar orientation of houses in their subdivisions.
It’s not just the north suffering from the cold. Down here on the Gulf coast people are terrified that the temperature may drop below freezing for several hours. 🙂
We in the mid-Hudson valley did not get very much in the way of depth of snow, though such as it was, it made for a messy drive this morning. My hat goes off to Neo, Paul in [but not of?] Boston, and PA+Cat.
R2L:
Regarding those super effecient houses. Fine Homebuilding, which has gotten very politically correct over the last 15 years, often has articles about construction methods for such homes. Very expensive. Very very expensive, But don’t worry they are all in on building codes that would require such edifices to Gaia.
It recently had an editorial about the anguish a builder on Martha’s Vineyard suffered; building luxury second homes instead of housing for the masses … or some such rot.