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...home designers here in the States need to see this.
...crikey the computers alone probably could keep your place warm.
All we have across the street is a Boozateria and a convenience store. On the fist floor of the Apartment building, there is also a Subway and a clinic (the latter which came in handy two weeks ago when I took a tumble on the way home from the market). Fortunatenly the building also has a workout room, spa, and laundry (with good machines), so when the weather is really bad don't have to really go far as long as I am stocked up with food.
Rarely gets really cold here like back in Wisconsin, the lowest I remember since moving to Portland was 12° F in December of 1990 and 2010. the snowiest was Dec/Jan 2009 (total of about 18" from back to back snowstorms) and January of this year (14" in one storm) both times paralyzing the city for about a week. (2" is considered a heavy snowfall here which causes all the local news stations to go into "Exclusive Winter Blast XXXX" coverage).
Yeesh. That's pretty bad.
Oh yeah, not looking forward to new years day here in Dallas. Lucky I make my own scedule at work and scheduled myself off Mon and Tues, LOL.
Hellwach Täglich.
You don't happen to sleep in a web, in the corner of the ceiling, by any chance?
Here in Washington PA where I live, it's been hovering between 0-20 degrees since yesterday. The furnace in the apartment building was struggling last night to keep the place at 60... And I found out this morning that the upstairs neighbor kids busted out two windows in the basement, AND after fixing those I had to change the air filter in the furnace!(my landlord tends to expect us tenants to handle smaller issues...which means I have to since nobody else in the building will. >.<) Now it's working much better. But it's still cold as hell outside, and the furnace still has to run for about 45 minutes a cycle to keep the heat up in here.
I've been lucky, cos All-Clad shuts down every year from about mid Dec to Jan 3-5th. So I'm off till next Wed. But I still am nervous about the weather, especially since tomorrow evening it's supposed to snow. My GF will be here for the weekend earlier than that, but we are supposed to get together with some friends and go to another friend's place in Pittsburgh. And we'll be going there, and coming back RIGHT in the middle of the snow.
My 2L Diet Mountain Dew on the porch froze solid but didn't split so it didn't drop below 0F.
Oh that sucks. Right now it doesn't sound like Dallas should get too much of the evil frozen schmutz, and it's not supposed to start until sunday. But it's going to be outstandingly cold for this part of the state.
Thank you!
Well, as my buddy Jon(he and his fiancee are the ones driving to Pittsburgh and back) said, the weathermen are quite often wrong. They're calling for 2-4 or so, but many times when I've heard that, it's either nothing(usually) or a snowstorm. And Jon's no dummy. If it looks bad, we'll just camp out at his and his fiancee's house for the evening. I live a block and a half from them, so we wouldn't have much of a drive back here.
All Clad? Well then! my wife loves her Copper Core and says its a privilege and treat to cook with it.. Thnaks!
Well, To be bluntly honest, I hope it's not the Copper Core we've been making since like 2008... It's about as thick as regular pans, and they get us junk material for them, so they are NOT worth what is charged. We used to make Copper Core pans that weighed a ton, heated food great, and built like tanks. Not anymore. But you're welcome regardless. :) I have a reputation at work of not caring about my job anymore, but it's simply because we used to be all about quality FIRST, then numbers. It's the exact opposite now. So I do what I need to to keep them off my back and collect the paycheck anymore, because they simply do not care about anything those of us who've been there for years have to say. We are simply bodies to them.
Nah.. we have the original weighs a ton copper core, picked it up in 2006..great stuff, cooks a treat, and will be passed down to our daughter.. all of our All Clad including some of the 5ply steel was purchased in 2006..
Sad to say, your experience seems to be common In industry now. Thanks ,
Good. I'm glad to hear you have the good stuff. :) Some of the stuff we make now is still really good, but ALOT of our product has gone downhill. All due to the quantity over quality attitude the company has adopted. But anyhow, You are welcome. :) Glad to know people like our products.
Works for just about any cooking chore.. cabbage rolls!
SWEET! :) Haven't had those in a few years! My GF hates em. :/
Yeah..Jeannie cooks up some killer meals.. as far as driving in snow goes. Well up here these go on beginning of October...
Zoe can cook her arse off. But she's Irish/Italian, and grew up on mostly Italian foods, so she tends to look at stuff like stuffed cabbage as some alien lifeform. She does love Japanese food though. XD I have all seasons on right now, hopefully I won't have to get winter treads on cos money. :)
...yeah those go on in the beginning of November here and don't come off until April (the latest I've seen ice and snow here is late February). I don't know why, as Portland really doesn't get winter like Calgary, Edmonton, or Wisconsin (where studded tyres are actually illegal believe it or not). All they do here is grind up the bare wet roads in the city requiring extensive and expensive repairs in spring. Better off just to have a set of quick fit traction devices, a small shovel, and a bag of kitty litter in the boot.
The only good thing about them, I can hear a Prius. Leaf, or Tesla with them on sneaking up behind me when I'm on my bike.
well. we don't stud our tires. they tear up the membrane coating our parkade floor.. Besides, if the weather is bad enough that you might actually need them... stay inside,
I put my trust in studded tyres, I've used both kinds and on an icey road with snow on top the difference is huge.
When we lived in Quebec, yes, we studded our tires and they made a big difference as you suggest. Here we can't (condo bylaws do not allow studded tires in the parkade)... Now tire chains? ever played with those?
I think usage here in Finland studded/traction is 50/50. Tire chains? Yeah but only on the old bus we used to tour the country with my band;) In Lappland you couldn't have done without them.
Back in the '50s & '60s my father always had a set of chains in the car. Then I moved away to college in Florida and a career "down south". Now that I've retired and moved back up here (near Buffalo) I solve the traction problem by parking my car for most of the winter and waiting until the landlord plows the driveway, the county plows the local roads and the state plows the Interstates.
Speaking of which, it's been so cold here that the road hasn't been black for about a week and my car hasn't moved either. Groceries getting low again.
We've been off work since the 15th, and I go back next Wed... We were supposed to get our paycheck in the mail today... Nope. And I am broke. My GF has to bring some food for tonight cos I am out of food. Hopefully the thing is here tomorrow, cos I need to get groceries and pay my bills. Not happy, especially cos my bills are now overdue. Thanks work! >.<
Last year, in the week leading up to Xmas, the area in southern Siberia near Lake Baikal hit -50C for several days. That's -59F. That is deadly cold. Some poor soul stopped to change a tire, and ended up losing his hands! The problem we're having is that due to climate change, the polar vortex is no longer so predictably stationed at the pole. While it was shifted to southern Siberia, the polar region itself was about 30F higher than normal, so no, the polar bears are not happy. California has been unusually warm, and with no rain while the east coast has been digging out from snow. This is likely to get worse. Weather is basically a pump the planet uses to transport heat from the tropics to the poles. More stored heat, more freaky weather.
What I don't understand is the other part of the story. Yeah, polar bears don't like the warming, but 99% of the rest of life on the planet loves and thrives in warmer temperatures. Just ask those throughout the US who are dealing with all-time record cold temps way below freezing right now. On the other hand, they're only talking about 1 or 2 degrees change in average earth temperature, whatever that means. And there's so much focus on California warming, but not much about the rest of the US in all-time record cold. The whole thing seems really hard to understand.