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In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 6:19 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Wow! Jack. That is some kind of cold you got going on down there. Yeah, we do.
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Sounds like you were bearing the brunt of the storm, SIX! Sis texted me to say they got a whopping 4" of light fluffy stuff.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 6:29 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 6:53 PM
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021 10:48 PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 11:48 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: When I was working, I often had identical instrument models, with identical PNs, and identical exterior appearance - but completely different guts inside. Different valves, different plumbing, different configuration, different servo motors ... different a lot of things. I sometimes think it was because the company had outsourced its manufacturing, and when parts ran short, adjustments were made on the fly.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 11:54 PM
BRENDA
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Wow! Jack. That is some kind of cold you got going on down there. Yeah, we do. Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Sounds like you were bearing the brunt of the storm, SIX! Sis texted me to say they got a whopping 4" of light fluffy stuff. Yeah. It's so gross. Buildings around here and in Chicago have actually had their roofs collapse because of the snow/ice weight. I haven't heard anything about house roofs collapsing yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people's gutters start to fall off. I just knocked off about 200lbs of icicles from my gutters today. 5" gutters and they're full of ice now and spilling over. A house across the street from me and a few doors down from front to back on the side of the house I can see has 7 foot icicles nearly touching the ground. I can't believe somebody hasn't gone out there and knocked them down. I don't know them, otherwise I'd go over there and do it myself. I know they have a few small kids there, so I hope they're going to make sure the kids don't play around that when it warms up until they knock them down or they fall off. 5 more days of this frigid cold before we get some highs above freezing. And there's still a possibility that we get another foot of snow before the temps become warm enough to start getting rid of the nearly 40" we've got over the last 3 weeks. :( -------------------------------------------------- A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:23 PM
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Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:21 PM
Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:04 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Yeah. I heard about that. I guess it's freakin' abnormally cold down even by Texas right now too and a lot of their power went out. We maybe got an inch last night. Not too bad. The only snow remaining in the forecast until our first day above freezing is 2 to 3" on Sunday night. Monday is going to be cloudy and just 33 degrees, so probably won't help much. But then Tuesday and Wendsday look to be highs of 40 degrees with the sun! Yay! Hope my gutters don't fall down before then and that my roof is still okay under all that snow and ice. -------------------------------------------------- A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:26 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: One of the things I used to notice was that some houses had lots and lots of snow on them with no icicles and some houses had no snow and lots of icicles. The difference was insulation. The houses with no/ minimal insulation lost a lot of heat through the roof which melted the snow which refroze as icicles when it hit the colder edges and gutters. And the houses with lots of snow and no icicles were far better insulated.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:30 PM
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Friday, February 19, 2021 12:14 AM
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 12:04 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Do you think a GFCI oulet on the sump pump is a good or bad idea? I'm thinking bad idea. -------------------------------------------------- A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.
Quote:NEC 210-8 At dwellings, ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) protection shall be provided for all receptacle outlets installed in bathrooms, garages, grade-level portions of unfinished accessory buildings, crawl spaces, unfinished basements, at kitchen countertops, wet-bar sinks, and outdoors.
Saturday, February 20, 2021 12:35 AM
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 4:08 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Saturday, February 20, 2021 10:54 AM
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:24 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back from my walk and no rain. Been invited out to supper and I should take my umbrella with me in case.
Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:30 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: I just spent hours outside shoveling snow away from my house and the gutters. It hasn't snowed in a few days, and it's still not close to 32 degrees, but the sun was out and one of my downspouts was actually working. Bad news was that it was going nowhere except for right up against the foundation of my back porch with slushy ice water that is going to freeze again shortly now that the sun is going to go down. I'm hoping what I did today doesn't backfire. It feels nice not having several feet of snow up against my house, but depending on how it melts and how much rain/snow we get in the future, I could have possibly just built an ice moat that is going to hold water in later.
Quote: Several good things to report though... Even though my back yard has snow so deep that it's still almost up to my crotch while walking through it
Quote:there is hardly any up against the back of my house where the flooding through walls typically occurs. The gutters seem to have kept that area somewhat free of snow, and whatever melting has taken place there hasn't ended up in my basement at all yet.
Quote: I also saw what could only be racoon tracks from the street right up to the mature maple tree closest to my house, yet there is no evidence of even a paw print on the roof of the house. Maybe I was actually able to manage to cut the branches back far enough with the 12' ladder and the telescoping cutter. So even with the additional height and padding of the snow and the ice on the roof, it looks like mama racoon must have climbed back down and decided that she could find a better place to try having her babies this year.
Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:47 PM
Saturday, February 20, 2021 8:13 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: I could have possibly just built an ice moat that is going to hold water in later.
Quote:Maybe I was actually able to manage to cut the branches back far enough with the 12' ladder and the telescoping cutter.
Saturday, February 20, 2021 8:18 PM
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 10:07 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: Holy jeeze that's a busy day, Signy! That to me would be a busy week or two.
Saturday, February 20, 2021 11:32 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back from my walk and no rain. Been invited out to supper and I should take my umbrella with me in case. I hope you have a nice supper, BRENDA! ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
Saturday, February 20, 2021 11:35 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back from my walk and no rain. Been invited out to supper and I should take my umbrella with me in case.
Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:18 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: I just spent hours outside shoveling snow away from my house and the gutters. It hasn't snowed in a few days, and it's still not close to 32 degrees, but the sun was out and one of my downspouts was actually working. Bad news was that it was going nowhere except for right up against the foundation of my back porch with slushy ice water that is going to freeze again shortly now that the sun is going to go down. I'm hoping what I did today doesn't backfire. It feels nice not having several feet of snow up against my house, but depending on how it melts and how much rain/snow we get in the future, I could have possibly just built an ice moat that is going to hold water in later. I suppose if there's a pathway where the melt can run off to, like to the driveway and street, you shouldn't have problems with accumulation?
Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:42 AM
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Sunday, February 21, 2021 10:01 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: After deciding I wasn't going to do much today after playing in the snow and having a late night at my bud's house yesterday, I did get around to spending about 5 hours scraping off old adhesive on the kitchen sub-floor by hand. Crappy, boring work, but nothing very strenuous and it eventually needs to be done. Hit the area behind the fridge plus a foot or two, about a foot and a half in front of the sink and a few feet in from the entry door. Taking a quick break right now, but I'm going to hit it all with primer like I did under the stove and dishwasher tonight. It's still going to get dirty for sure, but nowhere near as dirty as the still somewhat active adhesive has after 45 days or so of being exposed and pulling every stray speck of dirt off of my boots. I need to seal in what could possibly be asbestos sub floor, and that will be all the areas most likely to take on any water. Eventually I'll get the rest of the floor, but I really only need/want to do a bit of it at a time in between other tasks.
Sunday, February 21, 2021 10:06 PM
Sunday, February 21, 2021 11:05 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: I always liked going to sleep to the sound of the rain. Since I was actually cozy and dry it made me feel even cozier. And now that you're cozy and dry, I hope you find it enjoyable too.
Sunday, February 21, 2021 11:07 PM
Monday, February 22, 2021 3:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Wow, I get tired just reading about what you've done!
Quote:Say, what do you do in your downtime?
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Over here, I manged to do a little more weeding, bin up the greenwaste (fallen pine branches, weeds, dead plants), water the property (again, to make sure the water goes deep), dust the house, dd and I swept and vacuumed, she scrubbed the toilets, and I stripped and flattened a bunch of boxes. And, of course, walked the doggie. Sent off a couple of important emails, and ... that was my day! As much as I could accomplish, anyway.
Monday, February 22, 2021 11:32 AM
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