Old houses
 

This is my wife and I's first winter in New Orleans. We are living in an old house. The house is very nice inside but has no insulation. The floor is so cold right now that if you put your hand on it your print will be there when you remove it. The heater has been in all day and the temperature inside has fallen.

Rant over

A friend posted -27° this morning... Here in the Twin Cities. My 105-year-old house with a pretty new furnace... Is pumping out the heat... It's a workhorse! Between that and my kitty cat I'm keeping warm!

Keep warm!

Whenever I'm cold, I cuddle up with a little pussy too.

wisconsin
 

Right now it is -18 with a wind chill of -40 in Wisconsin. Not a good time to be in the mail delivery business.

23
 

I just looked at the weather channel and it looks like a low of 23 tonight in New Orleans. That is COLD for down there. Hope you can stay warm, Alex.

cold
 

I think Schulte is thinking the right way !!

Alex, I have your solution :D
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...HJRCTW2ASzP-Ig

insulation
 

Alex,
Please check and make sure the floors were not insulated with uncut sheets on T 205 and T 206 cards.

We're at a balmy 4 degrees here in VA, which is not something we're used to. My redbone hound was not very enthusiastic about going out for his evening walk. Fair enough. I wasn't either.

Hahaha I will get right on that.

I live in an old house also. We done a complete remodel that made a huge difference in heating and A/C bills 5 yrs ago. It got up to a balmy -6 here today. Sadly when we gutted the house we never found hoards of T210's and T206's used for insulation.

:eek::D:D

Hey, you never know. My brother-in-law found this 1922 cartoon in a wall during his renovation in Boston a few years ago.

Luckily I am in San Francisco. It was probably near 60 today and will fall to the 40s tonight.

-50 wind chill today and tomorrow in the Twin Cities. Love it that we had a snow day today and tomorrow. Being a teacher is great.

SUN Diego
 

72 degrees and sunny in San Diego..........sorry guys.

8 degrees with a wind chill of 20 below in Brooklyn this morning:(

About 80 in West L.A. today, felt really nice. Sure looks cold in the rest of the country.

I had -25 Sunday night in central Wyoming and we supposedly were on the edge of the major cold heading through the midwest and to the east. -45 windchill made me feel like it was Minny-soda

pretty freaking cold in CT 8 with a windchill of -15. in that house in New Orleans you should be looking for hidden doors and crap. back in the days of the war when those houses were built there were always hidden rooms to hide people from the war. did anyone else read that article a couple weeks ago about the guy who decided to go down his heating grate and found a chapel built under his house?

You know the country is in a polar vortex when people in New Orleans are complaining of the cold.

No but it sounds interesting. Where was the article?

+1. Plan on enjoying oranges off my tree this a.m. for breakfast.

ill try to find it. i mean the house was in england or something. but still cant hurt to take a look right?

Well, now you're just being mean.

Neat story. I always like this kind of stuff.

And here I thought I was the only one who reads Daily Mail. Now I'm not so :o to admit it!

Meanwhile, I'll be building character and getting scurvy inside "The Polar Vortex." :eek:

DOWN SOUTH!!!
a very cold 6 degress in Georgia!! a new record

1. Try throwing a cup of hot water in the air, and watch it dissapear
2. Have your kids blow bubbles outside and have them freeze.

All the schools been closed for 2 days..becasue its sooooooooo! COLD!!!
Water Main busting all the city...black ice..and STUPID IDIOTS on the road.

The DFW Area is supposed to break our cold snap (its already a bit warmer then yesterday) and then have 8-10 days of highs about 60 with lows about 32. I can live with that in January. We have already surpassed the days below freezing of the 2012-13 winter.

Rich

-14 with a wind chill near -40 here in Indianapolis. Oh yeah, over a foot of snow also.

Anyway, whenever I hear of people using newspaper for insulation in houses, I think of my Grand Mother.

She was born and raised on a small farm out in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky. They didn't have much money and lived in two small houses. When I was a young teenager (?), my Mother drove us to Kentucky for a family reunion and my Grand Mother wanted us to go see where she grew up.

When we reached the two buildings, I couldn't believe my Grand Mother and her parents and 10 brothers and sisters lived in such small buildings together. When I went inside one of the buildings, I found the walls covered with newspapers. My Grand Mother said that is what they used for insulation.

The newspapers were from the 1920's. My GM found one with a headline of Babe Ruth hitting a home run. She knew I liked baseball so she tore the headline off the wall and gave it to me. I have no idea what else was in there because it was so dark and I didn't have a flashlight.

I found out years later that one of my relatives went to the buildings and found there was still stuff up in the small attic. I have no idea what. Since none of our family members owned the property, we weren't supposed to take anything out of the buildings.

Years after that, I heard the owners of the property went and burned the buildings down. So, if there were any baseball or sports cards used for insulation or in the attic, I never found them and they were burnt.

David

I would like to get Chris, Nelson, or some of our other Canadian friend's take on all this talk about the cold weather. I'll bet they think that we're a bunch of wusses. :D

Having grown up in WI, I do not miss the fact that one can have 4 pairs of everything on, and still feel like they're freezing. -50+ windchill...goodness gracious.

Sorry ya'll, I now reside in South Florida. :o


It was 45 outside this morning, and, while in winter coats, people were shivering, complaining that it was freezing outside. They have no idea!

Same as in the summer in SF

Of course, it will be the same in August... :)

Chilly !
 

5 degrees here in Dover DE . Kids are of from school because of the cold . Never happened when we were kids .

Where in Dover Jeff? 10+ years ago I/we owned 2 apartment complexes in Dover. Persimmon Tree Apts. behind the racetrack and Fox Run apartments which would become Brandywine Court Condominiums a little ways off of 13.

Jeff

We are in North Dover close to Del Tech off of RT 13

+1 Spent the day on the deck working on my summer tan and sucking up pina coladas.

78F Light Trades Surf's Up! There is snow on Mauna Kea however. I can see it from my dining room.:)

Reporting from Breezy Point, NY--
 

Lost electricity for a few hours yesterday morning and feared the pipes might freeze, but the winds died down and the house stayed relatively warm.

Called to check if our 10:30 senior softball game in the Babylon Bubble was still on, which of course it was. Made the 40 miles to Long Island in a normal 50 minutes as traffic was light--watch out for potholes on the Belt--
Shoulda stayed home as we lost for the first time this season and I came up empty with the bases loaded.

Seems to me it usually got this cold once a winter when I was a kid in Brooklyn. Boy, did I love a snow day [both as a kid and later as a teacher]--those were the best days off of all!