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


On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:09:32 +0000, 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 .
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