Yay, the furnace guy came late this afternoon, and we now have heat again! Whoot! It was getting really cold in the house, especially since it was snowing last night and the past three days haven't gotten above 35. A couple very small cheapo (around $15) portable heaters can only heat so much of a room.
We're still getting a fair amount of water in the basement, so I have to regularly check on it and click on the old sump pump. It won't go on of its own accord.
Just a reminder that I have a link party going on over at the Sunburnt Cow. You can link up handmade items - whether you have them for sale or not. You can also link up anything you have that's vintage/old fashioned/prim.
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Brrrrr...it's chilly....
Well, it's quite chilly here in my house today. Why? Because the furnace literally went kerklunk last night and stopped working a couple hours later.
Went down to the basement this morning and saw that we have several inches of standing water. Luckily, one of my handy friends was around, and he got my sump pump working. It's been several hours now, and it's still pumping out water. I suppose I'll have to wait til Monday to call the furnace guy so as to leave the basement and furnace time to dry out. It'd be super wonderful if it just started back up on its own, but I think it probably needs a jump start or new starter or whatever from the furnace guy.
Sigh...
Today's and yesterday's highs were only 35. It's cold, but at least I have two small portable electric heaters to help take the chill off.
Went down to the basement this morning and saw that we have several inches of standing water. Luckily, one of my handy friends was around, and he got my sump pump working. It's been several hours now, and it's still pumping out water. I suppose I'll have to wait til Monday to call the furnace guy so as to leave the basement and furnace time to dry out. It'd be super wonderful if it just started back up on its own, but I think it probably needs a jump start or new starter or whatever from the furnace guy.
Sigh...
Today's and yesterday's highs were only 35. It's cold, but at least I have two small portable electric heaters to help take the chill off.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Blizzard a' blowing in
Yep, we're due for a blizzard. The high wind gusts started last night, and today it's full blown. (Pardon the pun - hehe)! I love the sound of wind. In ND, we have very strong and high winds, so you can definitely hear it inside the house - even if you have the TV on.
Right now it sounds like I'm in a beach home on a stormy day with the waves crashing. And I'm not talking the anemic waves in Florida either. I'm talking a stormy day on the beach in Hawaii or California. Big crashing waves. I like the sound of that, for some reason. They say the wind gusts are around 40 mph but, having lived here long enough to know better, I'd say it's much higher than that.
Anyhoo, we're due for between 6 to 16 inches of snow, with a sheet of ice coming first. The temps are high enough (in the 30s) that the precip will be rain first, and then changing to snow as the day wears on. And here I was hoping that the foot of snow that had melted last week meant that we were well on our way to...well...no more significant snow fall. Silly me for thinking that. We still have snow on the ground in July around here. (We still have around two feet of snow on the ground. Who knows what it will be after this storm blows through).
There's one bright spot: at least the air temps starting out are in the 30s, so the wind chill here will probably only get to around zero - as opposed to the 50 and 60 BELOW zero that is a common occurrence during a NoDak winter.
Right now it sounds like I'm in a beach home on a stormy day with the waves crashing. And I'm not talking the anemic waves in Florida either. I'm talking a stormy day on the beach in Hawaii or California. Big crashing waves. I like the sound of that, for some reason. They say the wind gusts are around 40 mph but, having lived here long enough to know better, I'd say it's much higher than that.
Anyhoo, we're due for between 6 to 16 inches of snow, with a sheet of ice coming first. The temps are high enough (in the 30s) that the precip will be rain first, and then changing to snow as the day wears on. And here I was hoping that the foot of snow that had melted last week meant that we were well on our way to...well...no more significant snow fall. Silly me for thinking that. We still have snow on the ground in July around here. (We still have around two feet of snow on the ground. Who knows what it will be after this storm blows through).
There's one bright spot: at least the air temps starting out are in the 30s, so the wind chill here will probably only get to around zero - as opposed to the 50 and 60 BELOW zero that is a common occurrence during a NoDak winter.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Blizzard Friday
Sigh...unfortunately that doesn't mean a Blizzard from DQ. Gosh, it's been years since I had one of those. I'm now in the middle of nowhere, where the nearest fast food restaurant is about 100 miles away.
Anyway, we're in what the weather service is calling a "life threatening" blizzard. Luckily, my house is snuggly warm and is very well built. It has to be to endure over a hundred years of rough weather here in North Dakota. We've had sustained winds of 50 mph all day and what was once my shoveled out sidewalk is no more. It has a big drift of snow about four feet tall now. Hopefully spring will come soon, though it's not unusual to have snow still on the ground even in July!
Anyway, we're in what the weather service is calling a "life threatening" blizzard. Luckily, my house is snuggly warm and is very well built. It has to be to endure over a hundred years of rough weather here in North Dakota. We've had sustained winds of 50 mph all day and what was once my shoveled out sidewalk is no more. It has a big drift of snow about four feet tall now. Hopefully spring will come soon, though it's not unusual to have snow still on the ground even in July!
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