Yeah, it's been a crazy couple of days.

Like everyone else, I was so p*ssed yesterday after the long drive and shovelling. But, you know, when you read about all the trials and tribulations of everyone else out there, you don't feel so bad anymore. You definitely gotta let out a hearty laugh.

I'm starting to feel warm and fuzzy all over again. Damn, this forum is great guys!

 

Hey Wayne, are you back up with power? I was watching the news on the Ontario storm/power situation this am. They said 50k homes still out because of downed lines/poles.

We were forecast for 15-20cm followed by freezing rain. We got less than 10 and most of it melted with rain. The temp was +1 this morning and its already up to +9 in the shade! It's a beautiful sunny day and I was shovelling/snowblowing with a light cotton sweatshirt this morning! I may go take the G for a spin.

 

Yep our power is back on, some friends still are without. A couple years ago ours was out for 80 hours .
Back to normal at our house though. Light snow off and on today, but windy.

Starting to think summer now Yacht Club dinner and dance today. Thinking warm thoughts .

How is your injury doing Deane, improving I hope. Your weather there sounds as strange as ours, up and down.

 

Good to see the power is back. I know what you mean about long outages. Hurricane Juan in '02 had ours out for 114 hours.

Warm thoughts are good. It's +10 here right now and sunny. Enjoy the yacht club dinner and dance.

Thanks for asking about my injury. It's not good news yet with no meaningful progress and no therapy or tests/doctors have been able to help. I did some real damage to my tendons it seems. It's limiting some of my daily activities and exercise is out of the question at this time. I've put on some pounds not being able to be active and have to be careful with my diet. I remain positive I can get back to some level of activity but realistically that is some time from now. I noticed doing the driveway this morning it took a lot out of me. That kind of thing used to be a joke when I was fit

 

Wow 114 hours with out power! I've never seen an outage longer than a couple hours. I hope you get better soon Deane so that you can do your avatar proud. It must be really hard for a runner to sit still.

 

Thanks very much Christian. I'm in the twilight years of my running career so don't want to lose any time!

The 114 hours wasn't actually too bad since it was in September. We barbecued all our meals and winded up clearing out the freezer!

It was so interesting living without power, tv fridge, computer etc. All the things in the modern era we take for granted. It was so quiet dark we tended to go to be earlier and get up earlier.

 

Here Deane, this shows you why some of our highways around my town are closed.
This is a pic of some of the Hydro crews working on the downed Hydro poles and lines on a main highway not far from our town. I still have a few friends that have no power since last week.

 

Wow. That's a big operation in the pic. These storms really do play havoc.

Hope your friends get power soon. That would be a huge problem without heating in all this cold weather.

 

Do you guys use electicity for heating in the east? Yikes, I was only thinking about the access to G35driver but no heat?!

 

Most heating systems need electricity to power the fans in the heating systems, thats why I installed a couple of freestanding propane stoves that don't need any hydro to keep them working. It's a lot easier and cleaner than a woodstove. A lot of homes are without heat. In the last few years a lot of people have been installing generators in their homes just to cover for power outages.

 

Even if you're on gas or oil... you still need hydro for the controls & blower.

 

Whoa...beat me by a couple of seconds Wayne

 

Yes a fair number of people do - electric baseboard. It's cheap on initial install but expensive to run. Natural gas was piped into a very small number of areas a few years ago- maybe 1% of people have this. Most people use oil heat- hot water baseboard or infloor on newer places, or forced air. I have an electric heat pump which is not too common here. Maybe a third of houses have a wood stove or zero clearance fireplace as a supplement. I have a propane fireplace. It's pretty much just for asthetics.

In any case you still need electricity for the furnace fan or circulating pump with any of these systems.

 

Me too. Guess I was long winded.

 

Wow, yet another thing I take for granted.