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wezwaij replied to your post “oh huh the natural gas company we use just put out a bulletin that…”
Good luck. Our boiler has been down for a week, with repairs constantly being delayed. We’re basically living in one room with a space heater. We’re visiting my mum for showers and baths. She says its like the old days before central heating.
Oh no that sucks!!!!!
When I was a very small child our house didn’t have a working furnace. I think this was my first winter of life, and maybe my second. I’m not sure of the details. All I know is that I very, very vaguely remember the kerosene heater, which was a large beige cylinder, metal, surrounded by a snap-on metal grid. I remember the smell of it. My mother remembers that it gave off soot that stained the nail heads of the sheet rock, and I have a probably false memory of seeing that; I’m sure as the infant/toddler I would have been, I wouldn’t have cared about that.
I did use a kerosene heater in the yurt last fall and it got soot all over fucking everything, so I’m well-reminded of the look and smell of it.
I have no memories of before my family had a hot water heater, though.
All of which is a rambly way of repeating, that’s awful. Have your pipes not frozen, at least?? I’m terrified of my pipes freezing here– our furnace is okay but our thermostat is on the fritz and keeps forgetting to turn on, so anytime I’m away for any number of hours I half-expect to come home to a frozen house.
unfortunateshape replied to your photo “This is some shit, y'all. Getting our money’s worth out of winter….”
Stay warm and safe! But I know y'all are prepared for and used to this stuff.
Yesterday I wore:
bra, tanktop, long-sleeved shirt, sweater dress, sweater
underpants, midcalf leggings, full-length fleece leggings, thin cotton socks, thick wool socks, thigh-high wool legwarmers
knee-high suede boots, wool circle scarf, wool hat, angora wristlets, sheepskin mittens
down parka
I took off the mittens and parka, but left the rest on. My workplace thermostat, with the aid of it being up to 22F yesterday, got the interior of the office up to 67F, but the windows are so bad there were actual breezes. (NB: I cannot see a window in any direction from the interior office in which I work. But I can feel them!)
The “bomb cyclone” is supposed to hit the East Coast today. I don’t expect much if any snow but we had two or three inches last night.
On Tuesday afternoon there was a 100-car pileup on the Thruway. It’s south of where I am, but my deskmate takes that stretch to get to work. They closed an entire exit both directions, and he took back roads home that night. The next morning he drove in through the accident site and said it was unreal– debris everywhere, and tire tracks veering wildly off into the snow in every direction, and over the whole thing he’d just felt this haunting unsettledness, knowing there’d been one fatality and several serious injuries in the pile-up.
My baby sister is supposed to come through with her family at some point this week and isn’t answering my texts about when. Last year they got stuck in a lake effect whiteout for three hours, so. We’re all a little nervous about this year.
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wezwaij replied to your post “oh huh the natural gas company we use just put out a bulletin that…”
Good luck. Our boiler has been down for a week, with repairs constantly being delayed. We’re basically living in one room with a space heater. We’re visiting my mum for showers and baths. She says its like the old days before central heating.
Oh no that sucks!!!!!
When I was a very small child our house didn’t have a working furnace. I think this was my first winter of life, and maybe my second. I’m not sure of the details. All I know is that I very, very vaguely remember the kerosene heater, which was a large beige cylinder, metal, surrounded by a snap-on metal grid. I remember the smell of it. My mother remembers that it gave off soot that stained the nail heads of the sheet rock, and I have a probably false memory of seeing that; I’m sure as the infant/toddler I would have been, I wouldn’t have cared about that.
I did use a kerosene heater in the yurt last fall and it got soot all over fucking everything, so I’m well-reminded of the look and smell of it.
I have no memories of before my family had a hot water heater, though.
All of which is a rambly way of repeating, that’s awful. Have your pipes not frozen, at least?? I’m terrified of my pipes freezing here– our furnace is okay but our thermostat is on the fritz and keeps forgetting to turn on, so anytime I’m away for any number of hours I half-expect to come home to a frozen house.
unfortunateshape replied to your photo “This is some shit, y'all. Getting our money’s worth out of winter….”
Stay warm and safe! But I know y'all are prepared for and used to this stuff.
Yesterday I wore:
bra, tanktop, long-sleeved shirt, sweater dress, sweater
underpants, midcalf leggings, full-length fleece leggings, thin cotton socks, thick wool socks, thigh-high wool legwarmers
knee-high suede boots, wool circle scarf, wool hat, angora wristlets, sheepskin mittens
down parka
I took off the mittens and parka, but left the rest on. My workplace thermostat, with the aid of it being up to 22F yesterday, got the interior of the office up to 67F, but the windows are so bad there were actual breezes. (NB: I cannot see a window in any direction from the interior office in which I work. But I can feel them!)
The “bomb cyclone” is supposed to hit the East Coast today. I don’t expect much if any snow but we had two or three inches last night.
On Tuesday afternoon there was a 100-car pileup on the Thruway. It’s south of where I am, but my deskmate takes that stretch to get to work. They closed an entire exit both directions, and he took back roads home that night. The next morning he drove in through the accident site and said it was unreal– debris everywhere, and tire tracks veering wildly off into the snow in every direction, and over the whole thing he’d just felt this haunting unsettledness, knowing there’d been one fatality and several serious injuries in the pile-up.
My baby sister is supposed to come through with her family at some point this week and isn’t answering my texts about when. Last year they got stuck in a lake effect whiteout for three hours, so. We’re all a little nervous about this year.
(Your picture was not posted)
