In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Oh... I do believe I forgot to mention that my water heater went out earlier this week too. :)
That is a pretty rare event here. It happened a few times in quick succession about 4 years ago, but the pilot hasn't gone out since. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but I discovered it after I was outside for about an hour snowblowing and shoveling before the frigid hit. At that moment I wanted nothing more than to take a hot shower, but the water just wouldn't get hot. It might have been around room temperature at best, but it was hard to tell because my fingers were still cold.
Fortunately, after a few aborted attempts, I was able to get the pilot back on and staying on. Been checking it regularly the last few days and it's still working. :)
It's -17 right now, and looking at it dipping to -20 in the next few hours. By 10AM it will start "warming" up, and will continue to climb all day and night to a high of 5 degrees tomorrow at midnight.
After that, it will continue to climb to a high of 23 degrees at 3PM on Friday.
REALLY strange to see temperatures continue to climb without falling at all for a straight 32 hours. That exactly mirrors the 32 hours of straight falling temperatures we saw when it got this low starting sometime on Monday afternoon.
I haven't spoken to anybody at work since this weekend. I'm half tempted to try to call now and see if anybody picks up. It would calm my nerves a bit to know that everyone is safe. Even better if I found out that nobody was required to come in if they didn't feel it was safe for them or better yet business was so slow during the day so they were outright told not to even try.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:So downstairs is somewhere between 10 and 15 degrees colder than upstairs? And you used to set your temp to 58-63, which means that downstairs might have gotten as cold as 43?? Oh, that's no way to live!
I've still got the thermostat at 68 on the 2nd floor. Going to keep it there the whole year and see what happens.
The "gap" from 2nd floor to 1st floor looks to be just about as large as I thought it would during this cold snap. I'm looking at about 57 degrees now, and I thought it might drop to as low as 55
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The first of a series of rainstorms came thru today, with some thunder and lightning. It's a cold storm (for So Cal) with daytime highs in the upper 50s to low 60s. Only 0.3" of an inch of rain was anticipated, but I see from my informal rain gage that we got about 1". Since this is a pretty widespread storm - Bakersfield to San Diego and Santa Monica to San Bernardino - I think we've all gotten a good rain. I expect to see snow on the mountains by Tuesday when the rains have passed thru.
I tweaked my back trying to blitz the yard of weeds before this rainstorm came thru. Dear daughter and I filled two 70-gallon bins of weeds before the rain called a halt. There's still another couple of bins to go, but I wanted to nail the big ones before they bloomed and set seed (too much), so hopefully won't have so many weeds next time. I think - I hope! - those seeds must have lain dormant for a few years and it took the previous rainstorms to get them to sprout; I've never seen so many weeds in my life! I's hate to think that this will happen again any time soon!
A break in the rain tomorrow, but too muddy to weed means pruning and planting. Then back to working indoors painting, re-organizing, and in general taking care of business.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:So downstairs is somewhere between 10 and 15 degrees colder than upstairs? And you used to set your temp to 58-63, which means that downstairs might have gotten as cold as 43?? Oh, that's no way to live!
I've still got the thermostat at 68 on the 2nd floor. Going to keep it there the whole year and see what happens.
The "gap" from 2nd floor to 1st floor looks to be just about as large as I thought it would during this cold snap. I'm looking at about 57 degrees now, and I thought it might drop to as low as 55
It did drop to 55 this morning before it got warmer. It's back up around 57 right now. Might get back to 60 when I get home if I'm lucky. :)
10 and 15 might be a bit too high a margin, at least in normal winter conditions. We just had a cold snap of a generation here, and it was a 13 degree split. I'm no scientist, but I'd imagine that the lower I had the temp on the 2nd floor set, the slightly smaller that gap would be too.
Now I didn't have a temp in the basement of the tri-level this morning, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the 40 to 45 range at the lowest point. The pipes didn't freeze, and the actual temperature was about 10 degrees colder than at any point I ever remember it being since I lived here. It has been so cold in that basement before that I could see my breath. That's how the pipes froze up 4 or 5 winters ago. Thankfully they didn't burst. :)
So yeah, that was no way to live. I did get a little taste of it this morning. I was bundled up good before I went to bed. I can't imagine how I put myself through months of yesterday every year before.
Glad that's behind me now. The -20 below weather and my insane levels of being miserly.
Now I just got to make sure my car keeps running tonight and hopefully we don't see anymore weather this cold all year when we get back into the lows in the double digits tomorrow night.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Rain here for tomorrow then a small prediction of snow for my area. Arctic front bearing down on BC. North is definitely getting snow.
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Looks like more rain than originally forecast here too. Add Tuesday to the list of rainy-days. So today will work in the yard if my back will allow, and then four days pf indoor-work for me. Gawd, I have so much to do both indoors and out, I'm not sure where to start!
But if all of the forecast rain does fall, that will be almost 4" total over six days, which will bring us up to 1.5" of a season total, with one and a half more months of rainy season to go. Considering what the weather's been like the past few years, just being near normal feels abnormal!
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Yeah... we just got a whole bunch of freakin snow that wasn't in the forecast last night. It really wasn't all that bad, so I don't understand why the roads were as bad as they were. Took me 1 1/2 hours to get home when it takes me 22 minutes in normal traffic. Didn't even snow after 3AM, so I don't know what happened.
Maybe half the plow trucks wouldn't start or something. Cars were all over the sides of the road.
Started my car every break and lunch without any problems. She's actually running really well, considering.
No pipes burst overnight and it's actually almost 60 degrees on the first floor again. :)
Looking forward to lots of rain and 50 degree temps on Monday. :) :) :) :)
Fuck winter.
Told my brotha's at work that my fat pasty ass needs some sunlight and some yard work. Can't come soon enough.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey! Just noticed that there's no single digit lows in the 15 day forecast anymore like there were before I went to work. So there's that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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My landlady and her family don't seem to want to answer the door when they have the baby in their arms. Oh dear. What they think someone is going to snatch the kid?
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Yeah... that's a little strange.
Oh well... as long as it's harmless. I bet every one of us has some behavior or another that other's would find strange if we're being honest with ourselves.
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It is Jack.
Oh, I know we do.
My boss and her husband have comments about me lately. She doesn't like the way I dress, i.e. wearing jeans. He doesn't seem to like what I eat when I am there late on Thursday and I bring my own food. They are mostly vegetarian, heavy on the onions for the wife and sorry my body doesn't like things like that.
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