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Think the picture says it all! This isn’t including the 20 mph winds outside of my truck. Think the real feel temperature was around 50 below.

Edited by Travis2766 - 30 Jan 2019 at 7:04pm
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Originally posted by D17Milo D17Milo wrote:

Some plces here in Iowa there is no mail being delivered today.
They said on national TV that ALL of Iowa, MN, and WI would NOT have ANY mail today.  First time in ALL my life this has been done!  CRAZY!!

Originally posted by chaskaduo chaskaduo wrote:

Just caught a blurb on one of our news stations (FOX 9) to turn down thermostat to 63 degrees, this after reporting that northern MN near Princeton has lost natural gas service. Gas company says working to get them gas hopefully by tomorrow afternoon.  A interviewed customer guessing broken pipe. Why does everyone else need to turn down heat unless they are afraid they will not have enough to make it? I don't know maybe I missed something.
  Yesterday on our news they said to turn the thermostat UP two degrees.... One of the daughters called me all worried about it and I told her to do what she wants, but that I've never done anything no matter what happens outside.

It's cold, it's cold..... it never bothers me how cold it is, but when the wind is blowing,,,,,that I don't like.

We're a bunch of crazy guys, we play with water when it's this cold.  We really don't like to, but we have to put the fire out.  So be nice to a Firefighter and be careful and don't start any fires....PLEASE...
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Ok I feel for you guys. NOT,!   I was building fence on the hill today had to take my sweatshirt off got too warm musta been 65 here today
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On the news they said if you live in an older house you should run the temp up because if the outside temp starts to effect you house your furnace will never be able to recover.  We are sitting here in 74* right now.  Sweet!
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Well, -26 again tonite. Not a lot of wind today but only got to -20. I feel for the guys who have livestock to take care of, did that til 2010, it was real interesting back in the 90s with no shop for tractor, always able to get the cows fed, everyone be safe again.
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Water mains in Des Moines broke today and in a couple other small towns.

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It was 37 above when I came home from a meeting a few minutes before 9 pm.  Last night it was about 12 at the same time, near 0 over night, 60's over the next few days but still in the 20's at night.
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Waterlines 10ft deep. -50 wind-chill. No thanks! You guys can keep it. Had a uncle lived in Lakeland FL. Lived in a slab house. Waterlines ran just below ground around the outside of the house and came up out of the ground into the kitchen sink. Completely exposed. Crazy how different things can be a few days drive apart.
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21 below right now, predicting minus 28 for the morning low. Still have gas , thermostat at 73 degrees. Hunkered down and headin fer

Edited by chaskaduo - 30 Jan 2019 at 11:56pm
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Every cellphone in MI received a text today from the gas company requesting everyone turn their thermostats down to 65 due to some incident, to ensure the flow of gas continues.

I saw on the news that Pacific Gas and Power is filing for voluntary bankruptcy due to the losses of equipment to the wildfires. 

Maybe it's time someone steps up and forces the money grubbing top executives in these companies that it's time to start repairing and replacing their infrastructure.
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Hope you all keep warm and safe after seeing how cold it is in the states I am not going to complain about the heat we are having 80F + most of this week so far stay safe
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yeah aint this 'global warming' nice ???  -6*F  here and NO, Cloudy ain't going outside. Got me an IR temp gun and walls are 45*, back door 19* F ! gotta install new seals..later....NOT today.
Had an Aunt lived in Frostproof,Fl. Thought it funny when she said 50 was 'chilly'.
should be warmer on Monday...

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Well -42*F  here this morning, I'm sitting about six feet from the wood stove and will stay there most of the day.    They say worst is over and warm weather is coming.
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25 degrees here this morning . That's plenty cold enough for me . Gonna be about 50 degrees this afternoon . I like that . Hope everyone stays safe and warm .
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-25 this morning in Cedar Rapids. Don't think we hit the all-time low they were predicting. Not terribly upset about that. My biggest issue is the blowing and drifting. Stuck in drift yesterday and thankfully the 7060 was in a warm shop and ready to go.Diesel pickup started, wasn't even plugged in but I left it home anyway. Lotta dead trucks along the road this morning.
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It was -20 yesterday when I got up.  Was really glad I had the day off.  Part of my job involvs taking out customers groceries so I'm in and out of the heat and cold all day long.  The Pepsi truck driver and I decide the other day that the cold is to blame for us feeling so worn out lately.  Not sure if it's true but it sounds good.  I finally broke down and started wearing my jacket to go outside at work last Thursday.  I don't like  to do it though, to hot inside and it makes everything harder to do.  Everybody be safe out there.
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If it is confirmed (by whom I don't know) Mount Carroll. Illinois set a new State Low this morning at -38*F    It was -33 here according to the local news. my Accuwrong weather station is never quite right, been reading bout 4 * high, said -27 for the overnight low. 
 It don't much matter to me what the number is if there is a minus in front of it.
 It DOES matter if the wind is blowing 40 MPH. Luckily, we had less wind last night than the 2 previous days.
 They are saying mid to upper 40's by Sunday Wacko
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Yesterday morning it was -34˚F at my house and -39˚F at my brother's house. I don't know what the windchill was. They pulled snow trucks off the road and most city buses due to fuel gelling issues.
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According to the Excel Energy gas company web site it was a gas shortage in the Princeton, MN area. 150-60 people put up in hotels etc. Gas should be back on by now it sounds like. I wonder how many pipes froze, how many burst, and who's responsible. Of course there's electric heaters, but how many people have enough of em to heat the entire house where the plumbing is out of sight, and safely. I haven't heard of any injuries, deaths, frozen pipes, or fires from it on the news. Still is it a natural disaster (cold) or man  made (gas shortage)?
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How do you heat your houses in the northern-midwest?
I live on Long Island. A common system here is oil fired hot water boiler. Many places are able to get natural gas from the utility. This is considered to be cheaper, so people have converted to natural gas. Propane is used for cooking, maybe the hot water and dryer, as main heating fuel, not so much. Heat pumps are sometimes used, however our electric rate is $0.21/kwh.  When I lived in California, natural gas furnace and water heater was the norm. In the boon docks or on the mountains, they used propane.

So take a place like Hutchinson MN. Is it natural gas to heat your house? How about in the boondocks, propane?
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I have a natural gas fired hot water boiler and a wood fired hot water boiler I plumbed together and can use one or the other by flipping two switches and turning  three valves. House was originally built in 1914 with a coal fired gravity octopus furnace. Across the street on one block a private road, they all have oil fired heat. Some of my neighbors have heat exchanger fireplace inserts also. I'm in a burb of SW Mpls. so most is natural gas. My water heater is also natural gas and I didn't plumb it thru the wood boiler at the time, but I still can if I wanted.

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One 500 gallon propane tank for heat.  Hot water tank is elec.  A fireplace on both levels of the house.  When the temps get down below zero, the first floor fireplace runs 24/7.  Keeps the house (both floors) easily over 72 degrees, rarely does the gas furnace come on except at night when I don't feel like getting up in the middle of the night to stoke the fire.  Firewood (free, sorta) only cost time and fuel for chainsaws and truck to haul it.
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Electric fireplace in the living room.LP gas furnace forced air. Wood stove in the basement with fan plumbed into the ductwork. Got -18 yesterday with high winds and the furnace only kicked on 2 times. 73 in the house. Dog came in and laid on her rug most of the day. She looked happy.Glad Im semi retireded.   I AINT going out in the shop!!

Edited by JayIN - 01 Feb 2019 at 11:08am
sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?"
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Some around here have Natural gas lines running nearby and heat with it. Most I know in this area of NW IL use LP gas for heat. I use LP for back up, but most of my heat comes from a corn burner connected to the gas furnace piping.
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Kinda reminds me of Jimmy" peanut" Carter in a sweater telling us to "chill out"and dial down during one of his fireside chats back when he graced the white house.  
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A few years ago the money grubbers had a loss of trucks to bring LP up to the midwest so the price skyrocketed.  It hasn't gone back down to previous levels,,,,,,,,imagine that.  Used to cost $0.87 (or less) per gallon.  Now the NORMAL price is right around $1.40 per.

Now there is some problems with machinery in MI and MN. causing a "shortage", so please turn your thermostat down.  Where the hell is that going to make any difference?  Another measure to charge more for natural gas??  I don't doubt it.  Same thing happens with regular gas, gotta shut down for SCHEDULED maintenance,,,,,,ergo the price goes up at the pump.  Sorry, we can't do anything about it.....
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