OT A bit chilly...

Wow! This sounds extreme. I wonder how my friends in Ontario, Canada are doing? I must check on them.

I hope it is just a short Arctic burst, NM. There is still quite a bit of February left - I remember how horrible February and even March can be (when I lived in Canada). I remember one year setting off from my Canadian town in March, with a foot of snow on the ground at the train station, then seeing complete changes of climate as the train went south to Mexico!

Take care, especially as you haven't been so well lately.

Pat > Well we have broken out the quilts, afghans, sweaters and anything else

Goodness, keep warm. Dare I say, here it is like the month of April outside, sun is out and the birds are nesting and singing. Enjoying while it lasts, anything to make a shorter winter :)

Janner France

We have been watching on the news. What awful weather. Here it is in low 70's and was over 80 at my dad's house in Orange County yesterday. Fruit trees are starting to bloom and it is way too early. Hope things warm up soon for you all! Taria

Well we have broken out the quilts, afghans, sweaters and anything else that might keep us warm!

At 10:20 of a Sunday morning it is -9 degrees F, with a -21 F windchill. That is approximately -23 C with a -29 C windchill for all you metric folks.

Our insulation is for crap too. The cats are waffle ironing themselves on the furnace grates. The only truly warm place in the house is my little greenhouse, a six foot tall rolling shelf array with a plastic coat where I have set a little space heater on the bottom shelf to make it warm enough inside to sprout peppers. I watered them this morning and just wanted to crawl in there with them. All the taps are dripping, where we do not have door snakes we have stuffed towels and tablecloths and what have you up against the bottom. The windows are plasticed over, but we are considering papering them over as well. Outside we already made sure the roses were well covered with snow. That should at least make sure the windchill doesn't do them in. If they do take a lot of damage, well they are own root and should come back from this in a couple of years.

I hope you folks further north of us are doing what you can to stay warm!

NightMist

Goodness, Hope you are staying warm! Hi Taria, are by any chance in Orange County FL? Barbara in Lake County

We have been watching on the news. What awful weather. Here it is in low 70's and was over 80 at my dad's house in Orange County yesterday. Fruit trees are starting to bloom and it is way too early. Hope things warm up soon for you all! Taria

Well we have broken out the quilts, afghans, sweaters and anything else that might keep us warm!

At 10:20 of a Sunday morning it is -9 degrees F, with a -21 F windchill. That is approximately -23 C with a -29 C windchill for all you metric folks.

Our insulation is for crap too. The cats are waffle ironing themselves on the furnace grates. The only truly warm place in the house is my little greenhouse, a six foot tall rolling shelf array with a plastic coat where I have set a little space heater on the bottom shelf to make it warm enough inside to sprout peppers. I watered them this morning and just wanted to crawl in there with them. All the taps are dripping, where we do not have door snakes we have stuffed towels and tablecloths and what have you up against the bottom. The windows are plasticed over, but we are considering papering them over as well. Outside we already made sure the roses were well covered with snow. That should at least make sure the windchill doesn't do them in. If they do take a lot of damage, well they are own root and should come back from this in a couple of years.

I hope you folks further north of us are doing what you can to stay warm!

NightMist

I can even imagine temps that cold. We would have been lucky to have had one day of 35 C for the summer.

Dee in Oz

I always forget there is an OC in FL. Nope, here in So. California. I grew up there and most of my family is still there. I am up in the high desert, the potty stop between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Taria

Goodness, Hope you are staying warm! Hi Taria, are by any chance in Orange County FL? Barbara in Lake County

Oh well. I forget about OC in So, Calif! A long time ago I was in your neighborhood when we drove from LV & LA on our way from the Atlantic to see the P Ocean. It was in June, more than 30 yr ago! Nice drive! Barbara in FL

I always forget there is an OC in FL. Nope, here in So. California. I grew up there and most of my family is still there. I am up in the high desert, the potty stop between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Taria

Goodness, Hope you are staying warm! Hi Taria, are by any chance in Orange County FL? Barbara in Lake County

The night after I originally posted, the temperature without windchill got down to -25F. Thankfully it has not gotten that cold again! We have had sub-zero double digits, but only low double digits. We've gotten some snow, but not off the lakes so it hasn't been dire. We have 5-10 inches in the current forecast, and that is not at all unusual for here.

I was right! I just have a cold. A miserable snot filled cold, but just a cold. Of course the doctor is all "A-ha! we caught it right before it turned into something awful!" Oy. I never even opened the inhalers (TWO!) that she prescribed. "As needed" is a pretty vague instruction. It seems awfully counterintuitive to be using bronchodilators when you are full of flem too. You know, let's open the air passages wide so you can inhale all the gunk more easily. Seems an expectorant would be more sensible.

NightMist

So glad it was 'just' a cold. You would think with all the amazing advances in medical science, that they would have found a cure for the common cold by now! I expect the doctor was nervous of it 'developing' so she was covering all the bases >g The night after I originally posted, the temperature without windchill