Comments on: Oh the weather outside is frightful

By: rustitobuck

rustitobuck — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:44:07 +0000

Well, we don’t have any precip on the ground here. The light, icy dusting we had a week or two back caused everybody to dump an enormous load of salt everywhere. Sidewalks sparkle in the sun. There are piles, three inches deep, of salt in the intersections. With no precip, there’s nothing to wash salt down the drain. Consequently, it gets ground up by tires and thrown to make all our cars into pretzels. And technically, we’re having a drought.
It’s so cold (how cold is it?!) that the heat in my apartment building is barely keeping up. 70 up here. It’s below 65 in the neighbor’s apartment downstairs, where they have radiant heat on a slab below grade.
Snow is an insulator. Without any snow cover, the frost line is moving downward. There are numerous water main leaks. I suspect that any slab or below grade housing is losing more heat through the floor. And I’m sure the building would be warmer with a foot of snow on the roof.
And after being idle for two days, I just barely got the car to turn over.

By: roho

roho — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:02:32 +0000

In reply to feren.

Now, now! We have a fine covering of white on the ground here!
…Granted, it’s the half inch of damn *salt* on the roads, but still! 😛

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:44:43 +0000

cold, too!
…and here in the western half of the state, the high was 11F and is now falling at 2:45pm (9.5F), along with more snow AND lots of wind.
brrrrr!
very brrrrrrr!
fuzzytoes
taking care of Dad after heart surgery 🙂

By: feren

feren — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:50:57 +0000

You guys suck. It’s nothing but brown, brown and brown here.
I want snow!