In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 5:54 PM

Some people can just never be satisfied, I'll tell ya. 3 people today were complaining about the rain on their way into work as I was leaving. It's going to be 50 degrees outside today. That's 70 degrees above the lowest lows we had for an almost unheard of cold stretch this early in the season here.

And they're bitching about rain?

I'm happy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 6:02 PM

I'm waiting to hear about the flooded basements in the WNY region. It always seems to follow .... snow ... rain/melt ... basement flood. Good thing we brought in some heavy-duty Penco shelving and put all our sis's stuff at least 1' above the old water-line!

Have to say ... visited during one of those spring melt episodes. Altho I used to live in the area, I don't recall ever standing on a bridge when the river was 3' below the pavement, looking at small trees and ice floes rushing downstream. Pretty damn powerful, if you ask me. Just a little reminder from mother nature how utterly powerless we are, when all is said and done!

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SIGNYM

Friday, January 12, 2018 9:12 AM

Montecito mudslide

It looks pretty flat to me, I would have never figured it as an "at risk" area.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, January 12, 2018 2:25 PM

My 50 degree days were nice. Rain and all. Not a white patch anywhere. Got my snowblower in working order again today and burned off the bad gas I accidentally left in there that was the culprit. Damn thing ran for almost 2 hours on idle, so I really borked it and left a lot in there. No wonder it wouldn't start in the cold. Choked up a few huge plumes of soot when it started up. Should be good for whatever snow this monster winter has in store if it decides to change from frigid cold to unusually high precipitation.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Friday, January 12, 2018 11:06 PM

I'm sure mother nature has at least one more winter blast in store for you, SIX, so good thing that the snowblower is in working order! I hope your sump pump is too.

BRENDA, I found a satellite before/ after picture of the area; the Thomas Fire (which wound up being the largest in white-recorded CA history) burned all of the coastal mountains above Montecito; I'm sure that was a critical factor in causing mudslide. (logging is another) Also, there was an established stream which lubricated the slide. It looks to me like the areas that were hit were more or less at the bottom of the coastal range, but with that much water and mud coming down I guess it had to go somewhere.

Just like there seems to be no such thing as "too urban to burn" it looks like there's no such thing as "too flat for mudslides". I guess it's easy to feel safe in well-established developments, but that would be a mistake.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, January 20, 2018 6:45 AM

Glad to hear it Brenda. :)

Right after those two really warm days we had another abysmal week of nights in the low single digits that ended just 2 nights ago. Forecast looks fairly normal for the next 10 or so days.

My power company says the average temp by me was 18 degrees for the last month, which is the lowest I've ever had in 6 years of living here by about 4-5 degrees. I used about 40 more therms this month on heat than I did in February last year, which is typically my worst month. Here's hoping that February isn't as bad this year to offset this heat bill, which will mark the largest one I've had since living here.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Saturday, January 20, 2018 4:28 PM

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Now, if only I could get some heat where I am living. - BRENDA

So, I know that you live in an illegal conversion, probably either attic or garage. Just how many services are you missing? Heat, for one.

Do you have plumbed-in water? A bathroom? Electricity?

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, January 20, 2018 6:04 PM

Oh... early spring would be so nice. It's crazy that it was in the high 20's or low 30's on breaks tonight and it feels warm to me when I'm out smoking.

I didn't notice what my bill was until just this morning when I got home. For some reason they don't have the actual bill up yet on the site, but they do have what I owe. It's a lot smaller than it should be, given how much energy I used. I'm downright confused right now because it actually should be about 40 or 50 bucks more than it is, easily. I don't do the budget plan... I pay as I go.

I'm really curious to see the bill. I can't believe that the good people at the power company were cutting the little guy a break during that terrible month of freezing weather?

Nah... couldn't be.

Could it?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 21, 2018 6:05 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh... early spring would be so nice. It's crazy that it was in the high 20's or low 30's on breaks tonight and it feels warm to me when I'm out smoking.

I didn't notice what my bill was until just this morning when I got home. For some reason they don't have the actual bill up yet on the site, but they do have what I owe. It's a lot smaller than it should be, given how much energy I used. I'm downright confused right now because it actually should be about 40 or 50 bucks more than it is, easily. I don't do the budget plan... I pay as I go.

I'm really curious to see the bill. I can't believe that the good people at the power company were cutting the little guy a break during that terrible month of freezing weather?

Nah... couldn't be.

Could it?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Never know Jack. You never know.

Well... you do if you look at the details of the bill, which I admittedly never really have done before.

Huh...

Gas supply charges stayed relatively the same. Too much math for me to bother with since it varies per calendar month and my bill comes somewhere during the later half of the month, but I'd say that it's roughly the same.

Pipeline transport and storage are way down though... but that's not a huge part of the bill. 4 cents per therm only adds up to a savings of around 2 bucks.

This is my highest bill in the last two years I can go back and look. We've had pretty decent winters around here until this month for a while. Too bad I can't still go back and look at the two bills I've had over 200 bucks. I know I've never had a month this cold on record since I've been here, so I'm surprised it's so low. I'd love to be able to compare this to whatever they were charging for the gas back then.

Natural Gas prices must be low right now, at least in my area.

Go me!

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Monday, January 22, 2018 1:03 AM

Quote:
Now, if only I could get some heat where I am living. - BRENDA

So, I know that you live in an illegal conversion, probably either attic or garage. Just how many services are you missing? Heat, for one.
Do you have plumbed-in water? A bathroom? Electricity?

Basement actually. The only service I am missing is heat. I have water and electricity. Also bathroom and a kitchen along with a bedroom. I get internet but she likes to turn her signal off every so often.
What it comes down to is this place is falling apart. I have walls that are starting to crumble in spots. Cracks in them. A couple of bad spots in my ceiling that look like they are going to come down.
I'll explain more later but I want to head out while it is not raining but I will have my umbrella with me.- BRENDA

I have to wonder ... are these people so impoverished that they can't afford to fix up their own property, and are prepared to see it crumble under them? Land-rich but money-poor? There must be a story there!

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