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

On 16/02/15 09:09, pat on the green wrote:
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 on the green
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On 15/02/2015 15:38, NightMist wrote:
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