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28461. arkymalarky - 2/18/2015 2:41:48 AM Stan's brother in law had one of those, & I think they're really good. He had it out on the porch, so it was not bad in the house. I don't know how they exhaust all that stuff out, because I can't have wood heat because of allergies. Sounds like wood pellets would work great for your situation. 28462. arkymalarky - 2/18/2015 2:45:40 AM "which means rain on Sunday - not good news for the roof."
Hope it doesn't freeze or isn't freezing rain, but it's hard to see how it wouldn't be. That's so deadly. 28463. Trillium - 2/18/2015 7:31:53 PM Friend of a friend has been putting bubble wrap over windows, the clear kind used for packing. I tried it in a few places and notice the difference.
I like insulated drapes at night, but during days I want my sunlight! The bubble wrap lets in light but stops some of the heat loss. 28464. Trillium - 2/18/2015 7:36:04 PM Our county has been pretty much closed for the last two days, and I wonder about tomorrow. There is a sheet of ice all over everything that doesn't melt, the temps don't get high enough.
I had agreed to go fill in last minute for someone who needed help at home with an elderly relative while they went to work, with a reservation that we'd have to see what conditions were like this morning. I ended up regretfully cancelling this morning because it started snowing again, and I doubted my ability to get back home, up several hills. They have some college-age kids who can stay at home and do the job just as well as I could, but more comfortably if they end up stuck there overnight. 28465. Trillium - 2/18/2015 7:41:41 PM Which leads me to think about the headache of staffing some of the local community homes for clients with intellectual and mental disabilities, and the nursing homes ... imagine being trapped in a house far up a hill, working a shift that was planned for 8 hours, but then seemingly never ends, with a manic-schizophrenic who never sleeps, and you'd better not sleep while they're awake... God bless the people who do that difficult work for incredibly low pay
(along with all those utility workers who try to keep the power on) 28466. judithathome - 2/18/2015 10:12:48 PM Frozen Niagara Falls 28467. judithathome - 2/18/2015 10:13:26 PM ...and I hate to mention: I have the windows open and the doors, too. 28468. arkymalarky - 2/18/2015 11:43:15 PM Our forecast: Friday freezing rain, high in low 30s. Saturday thunderstorms, high in 60s. 28469. arkymalarky - 2/19/2015 12:46:19 AM I ended up staying home today, tho I'd planned to go. We're still out of power. On our way to get Spook from the airport, and it would be too good if it were on when we got home. The generator keeps us in devices and other necessities, and propane keeps us warm, but no water sucks. 28470. judithathome - 2/19/2015 7:47:26 PM You can always run up to the truck stop for a shower...heh!
Seriously, it's no laughing matter...just hope this doesn't last as long as "the Great Ice Storm"! 28471. arkymalarky - 2/19/2015 11:30:43 PM they were out too. And apparently Gary's not using the generator to keep going anymore. They just shut down.
Jim's still out. 28472. Ms. No - 2/19/2015 11:44:33 PM Judith,
Are you talking about the ice storm back in the early 80's? My Bopka was in town and took me and my little brother to a museum that day. The taxi wouldn't come into our apartment complex --- we were living in the massive Village complex then --- and we had to gingerly walk about a half a mile downhill on ice to get back home.
Weird how I remember the ice and the trip, but not whether it was Pompeii or King Tut that we saw. Bizarre. 28473. arkymalarky - 2/20/2015 1:35:55 AM This one was 2000. We were out of power 11 days. It was wicked on the roads for days. This one was so mild to have taken down so many limbs. It's just the way it fell and stuck. Roads were never slick. 28474. Iiibbb - 2/20/2015 2:02:39 PM My dad is in the hospital. Stroke symptoms either because of a stroke or blood infection. High fever.
I feel pessimistic and guilty I don't [u]feel[/u] more. Life has always felt inevitable to me. My mom and dad and family are more religious than I am, so there is a lack of connection on that wavelength.
I am worried and hopeful that this is transient. I'm not panicked because there is nothing unsaid between me and my dad.
The universe is big and old.
Who knows what happens to souls.
I'd be an atheist if it weren't for souls. As it is I'm a amystical Christian agnostic something or another.
Well anyway.... That's my day today 28475. Iiibbb - 2/20/2015 2:22:22 PM My dad is in the hospital. Stroke symptoms either because of a stroke or blood infection. High fever.
I feel pessimistic and guilty I don't [u]feel[/u] more. Life has always felt inevitable to me. My mom and dad and family are more religious than I am, so there is a lack of connection on that wavelength.
I am worried and hopeful that this is transient. I'm not panicked because there is nothing unsaid between me and my dad.
The universe is big and old.
Who knows what happens to souls.
I'd be an atheist if it weren't for souls. As it is I'm a amystical Christian agnostic something or another.
Well anyway.... That's my day today 28476. arkymalarky - 2/20/2015 3:40:29 PM I hope your dad is OK. How old is he? Read a really nice oped by Oliver Sacks yesterday on aging and death. I can't post a link but I'll post the URL:
nytimes.com/comments/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html 28477. Iiibbb - 2/20/2015 3:52:32 PM 74
Fever and stroke are not good together 28478. judithathome - 2/20/2015 9:28:48 PM No, not a good sign but not necessarily dire...my son had so many TIAs and several more severe strokes over the years. So don't jump to conclusions...the fever could be from a mild infection but it sounds worse because he happened to have a stroke at the same time as the fever.
28479. judithathome - 2/20/2015 9:31:58 PM back in the early 80's?
Only biggie exhibit in the early 80s I recall is the Chinese TerraCotta Soldiers. (in FW, anyhow...in Dallas, it was Tut.)
Keoni I left the area in '82 so I missed the "biggest" winter storm in memory...I think that's the one to which you are referring. 28480. iiibbb - 2/20/2015 9:40:48 PM Last conversation I had with mom it was 50:50, so it's bad. Traveling tomorrow probably in case decisions need to be made.
Need to talk to my 5 yr old. He's figured out that people die and it has been on his mind for a few months.
He will worry if I leave without talking about it.
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