Northern weather

[Rufus T. Firefly]

yup, 35-degree temp drop in less than 24 hours.

Sleet and freezing rain overnight, snow Tuesday...this is the winter that just keeps giving.

I should stop whining...haven't missed the snow-thrower yet.

I cleared up the far pile of logs left to split yesterday, but now they are soaked again - maybe in a day or 2 when they freeze I'll go out and split them just to make them go away....

[E7]

At least we got a brief respite from the ice box! I had anti-freeze put in my baseboard hot water piping. If the power goes out, hopefully will make it through without burst pipes. Long range plan is to go to hot air/AC setup with backup generator. Current heating has been around for 35 years! Fuel oil bill would probably finance a small 3rd world nation.

[healey36]

Never understood while fuel oil is so expensive. If you look at the cracking chart for petroleum I seem to recall fuel oil, kerosene and diesel pretty far down among the distillates. Aviation gasoline and other grade gasoline near the top. Aside from the imputed cost of delivery, why does one pay more for fuel oil than premium-grade gasoline?

[rogruth]

Never understood while fuel oil is so expensive. If you look at the cracking chart for petroleum I seem to recall fuel oil, kerosene and diesel pretty far down among the distillates. Aviation gasoline and other grade gasoline near the top. Aside from the imputed cost of delivery, why does one pay more for fuel oil than premium-grade gasoline?

I think this may be similar to the way Rufus described why we don't have cancer cures on the market.

[Tom Dempsey]

Never understood while fuel oil is so expensive. If you look at the cracking chart for petroleum I seem to recall fuel oil, kerosene and diesel pretty far down among the distillates. Aviation gasoline and other grade gasoline near the top. Aside from the imputed cost of delivery, why does one pay more for fuel oil than premium-grade gasoline?

I think this may be similar to the way Rufus described why we don't have cancer cures on the market.

Bingo

[healey36]

Now I'm really depressed...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Now I'm really depressed...

It's Fri. Have a beer and relax for a while...............

[Mitch]

We had a lot of rain overnight and today. It was 61 this morning when I got to work, 33 when coming home. The river and Buffalo Creek came way up, busted up all the ice, and it's movin' out. There's flooding everywhere. And we're still without heat, but they're comin' at 9 tomorrow morning to start the installation. Our chimney has 3 flues, all lined with 8" terra cotta tile, but the one for the furnace by code must be lined with stainless steel double wall pipe. That's the flue on the left, the center flue is the fireplace, the right side flue is the woodburner in the basement. Yep, a woodburner in the basement, 2 cords of seasoned cherry under tarps, fireplace in the living room, and I can't even get to the woodstove let alone use it. Someday my kids will take all their junk out. Someday.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

2 cords of seasoned cherry under tarps...........

Now that smells ever so good in the fireplace!

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I had to work at the golf course (closed due to snow) Monday because we had a pipe burst in the kitchen. At least 2” of water was on the floor.

The pro had to deal with ServPro while I answered the phone to make tee times. We actually had 2 customers, one of which got stuck in the snow. I dug her out of the 2 ft snow drift she drove into.

Came home and the kids came over, son-in-law got his big truck stuck in my driveway so I dug him out too. Actually nothing was working until I threw a large piece of cardboard under the rear tires and they grabbed hold. Both right side tires were in depressions left where 2 trees had been. He was on the concrete driveway but slid sideways because of the ice until the 2 tires were on the ground and in the depressions.

Now they’re saying more snow this coming Wednesday

[healey36]

Now I'm really depressed...

It's Fri. Have a beer and relax for a while...............

Next you’ll tell me they can make lightbulbs that would last 100 years, but they don’t, lol.

[healey36]

Someday my kids will take all their junk out. Someday.

I get upset about that too...then I realize all the crap belongs to me.

[robert.]

"Next you’ll tell me they can make lightbulbs that would last 100 years, but they don’t, lol."
Proof that All those silly California laws and tofu are good for the dim bulbs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light

[rogruth]

There was a similar light in my home town in Ohio that was turned on @ 1900. It had never been off and was still burning in 1950.
I was in a high school class that went to see it. I don't think many of us were very impressed after all it was just a light bulb.
Claims were made that turning lights on and off and the jolt to the filament was the cause of the bulbs to die. I would go back to
that building just to see that it was still lit. I went to college in 1952 and forgot about it until in the late 1960s. The building had
been torn down and no one knew anything about the light bulb.

[E7]

There was a similar light in my home town in Ohio that was turned on @ 1900. It had never been off and was still burning in 1950.

Claims were made that turning lights on and off and the jolt to the filament was the cause of the bulbs to die.

On the other hand, leaving lights on for 50 years will cause your bank account to die......unless maybe it is one of those new fangled LED's!