This is Charlotte, NC right now.
Edit: Two inches and most everything is closed.
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This is Charlotte, NC right now.
Edit: Two inches and most everything is closed.
Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
this is the damndest winter i ever saw.
i don’t ever remember it getting this cold for this long and this many times.
we’re still only at 25°.
i don’t ever remember it getting this cold for this long and this many times.
we’re still only at 25°.
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They didn't the last time I asked (a couple weeks ago).
What do you guys keep around as a precaution against this kind of weather? Space heaters? Do people bother putting in fireplaces?
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Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
nope.
i literally have never seen a furnace in my life.
lots of houses have fireplaces.
most just use central air/heat.
my house has neither of the above, so i use gas space heaters in the house. have 2 of them and they do a decent job in my 1300 square foot house.
our biggest problem is protecting water lines.
most houses down here are off the ground and have exposed pipes. and there is only so much you can do to prevent them from freezing. you just doneverything in your power to keep them from bursting.
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Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
nah, that space heater gets the job done just fine.
this morning when it was 20° outside temp was a comfy 68° inside.
and the great thing about them is that they’re 100% natural gas.
so even if the power goes out, they stay running.
can’t say that about a central unit.
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Buckeye513
Stable Genius
Just about every place I've seen that wasn't way out in the sticks or on the coast had central cooling/heating.
It does get cold in the South (average January low for Herbie's Paradise is 28, for example), it just doesn't usually get THAT cold and it doesn't stay cold for very long.
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My best memory of the one real blizzard we had in C'bus was that the apartment I lived in had a gas stove, and an old gas furnace that used
gravity f eed. All the power was out, and I was toasty warm standing over the vent drinking my hot tea. Dumbest thing they even did, in my IMO, was to connect electricity to gas furnaces.
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Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
my space heaters do have fans that help move the heated air, but aren’t necessary to use the heater.
might take that heater a little longer to heat the entire front portion of my house, but will still get it done without electricity.
now, if only there was a way to cool the entire house in summer with no electricity, i’d have it made.
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My memory is the blizzard of 78. I was serving the end of my Army time in the ONG. We were on Hueys going up and down I270, I71, I70 and SR315. When we found depressions in the snow, we jumped off with snow shoes and used long poles to locate the cabs of 18 wheelers to find drivers. Found one dead. People in trailer parks were drinking to feel warm and refused evacuation. Found them frozen to death the next day. My favorite was two ladies in mink coats duking it out over a loaf of bread in the Kroger at NW Blvd and Chambers in Upper Arlington. Also, driving personnel carriers up the snow mountains outside the Historical Society and surfing diwn. Was the only time I was issued with live rounds on American soil.
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Buckeye513
Stable Genius
Best part about being in Ohio last summer was not having to deal with the annual late-Bama-July AC failure.
I'd still trade that for never seeing snow again.
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Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
yeah summer with a broke ac sucks ass.
but i grew up in an old plantation style house with no A/C, so i can survive.
but FUCK THIS COLD shit
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