Mac (imported) wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:12 pm Yes, I knew that but don't want to see -40. The coldest temperature which I have experienced was around -20 F.

My condolences Mac. The coldest weather I've experienced is +29 and I thought that was unbearable.

And yes at-460 New Englanders are still eating ice cream but it is a bit crunchy Ernie

Paolo wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:26 am +25

# Boston water freezes

# Californians weep pitiably

# Cat insists on sleeping on your bed with you

# Jesus' (A) wife gets very irritable

You must have hardier cats in the Midwest than we have here in Southern California. I have been owned by many cats. All of them will insist on sleeping on my bed with me at 65 degrees or warmer. At 60 degrees or warmer they will get under the covers.

Rupert will refuse to go outside when it gets below 0, at 5 above he will still go out for a little while. After all a cat must have his limits fur coat or not.

Rupert has never liked being under the covers, the foot of the bed is fine or if I am sleeping on my back he thinks my chest is a nice place to sleep, all 13.2 lbs of him.

Now the dog, that's a different story, she always wants to sleep under the covers and in the middle of the bed.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:45 pm I agree with the REAL OLD GUY the -30 was the best, and its true.

BTW, International Falls Mn, was -39 today before wind chill.

Did you realize that -40 is the same C and F?

River

I'll definitely pass on visiting Minnesota when it gets down to -30 F. I've seen a few horrible, hard to watch sites and I think the worst would be that of a naked Talula on I-95.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:03 am Rupert will refuse to go outside when it gets below 0, at 5 above he will still go out for a little while.

After he refuses to go out the door you opened for him, does he order you to open the other doors?

I'm sticking this thread so everyone can see it again, in honor of Ernie romping around in the forest.

If it weren't for the dog (a long-haired Belgian Malinois cross) I probably wouldn't use the AC until it those muggy summer nights roll in.

I know I was making Riverwind hot at the 200x MOM, as I don't take my hoodie off until it hits 80F. I have a lot of them.

Anymore, I can't tolerate 50F unless the sun is out.

Earlier this past summer out home's HVAC system died, and was deemed not worth fixing due to it's age. We replaced it with a new 'dual fuel' setup, which is supposed to be the best / most cost effective setup for our climate w/ current tech... Basically a heat pump for AC and heat down to about 35*F, and a gas furnace for heat below that...

Saturday night was apparently the first night the temp got low enough to trigger the gas furnace, and Sunday the thermostat was showing error messages and we had no heat...

We didn't have the tech come out Sunday because we had to go down to CT for a family picnic (at about 60*F) at a state park that the GF's mother is very fond of.... It was supposed to have been earlier in the year, but we had to postpone because of the GF's father having some medical problems, (They are both in their 90's and not doing so great, albeit not bad for their age...)

Today the tech showed up and found that the tech who 'commissioned' the system had shut off the gas as part of his testing, and forgotten to turn it back on... The system ran fine until it needed to call for the furnace, which naturally didn't run w/o gas, and the error it threw shut down everything... The tech turned the gas on, and tested the rest of the system to verify the fix, total time at our house about 30 minutes, much of which was just waiting for the system required 5 minutes between cycles...

Annoying but glad it was an easy fix...

WheelyCurious

We had the furnace serviced in 2021, and the one-man-show of the local business here replaced the main burner, as it's propane. Key Hank Hill sound bite here. Of course, when the temperature fell below 80F, I was content with a hoodie. Grandpa fired up the furnace. It worked for a week with thermostat set on 85F. The new igniter (made in a country in Asia) lasted about a week before it quit. Of course, it had to quit on a night where the temperature was going down to about 30-something Fahrenheit. Of course, being in the mid-stages of dementia, there was no explaining to him why the furnace wasn't working right. Luckily, the guy came the next day and put a new igniter and burner assembly in it AGAIN, as for that model, it was all he could get as far as new parts.

Of course, nothing beats the furnace in Talula's old mobile home, which miraculously, did not blow us all to kingdom come, as it had the wrong burners for the fuel type in it! It was like the space shuttle taking off every time it fired up.