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Cold is cold is COLD!!!!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007:
OK, I've lived through the -38F (-80 F and more wind chill) a little over 25 years ago in Greater Chicago-area.But, far as I'm concerned, anything lower than 10F is just plain COLD!!!
But then, every winter sometimes becomes a real matter of life and death in terms of house fires. We've dodged the bullet three time here on the farm with flue fires...but some have not been so lucky...
Ten people (most of them children) died this week in a house fire inBardstown. A 12-year-old died in a mobile home fire in Kentucjy this week....
And, as I said earlier in this blog entry, we've had flue fires here at the home farmhouse....scarey beyond words!However, fact of the matter is that lots of people in Lewis County can't afford the modern convenience of natural gas, LP, or even electric heat.
Wood heat is what we have that we can barely afford.
I don't know anything about natural gas, since that's not something available back here in the hollers, but LP is over $2 a gallon...I have a 500 gallon tank and I couldn't afford to fill it up last year (and the LP company will only do a total fill-up) and now that I'm, bottom-line, unemployed this year, I can't afford anymore this year!
So, the house is cold, cold, COLD and this afternoon (Wednesday) the water heater blew up because (apparently) the water lines to the bathroom sink have been frozen since Sunday
I'm sitting here with hot bricks keeping my feet warm (the bricks are heated atop the wood stove six at a time, three at a time on my feet at the computer desk).
Sooo, it's just now after 9:30 pm Wednesday, I have no hot water other than pans on top the wood stove...
Spring can't come a minute too soon!
Or you can get a good heat lamp, one with a ceramic fixture and hang it directly over your head. Which course can interfere with the bright ideas light bulb that comes on at times of creativity.
I'd put some warm Carolina air in a box and ship it to you but it's getting dark and I missed the 40 degree stuff earlier today. RATS
Keep Warm
Marla
--marla
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But, since my initial blog post, water pipes and the water heater blew up Thursday and Friday. My bathroom is a complete disaster area!
Good news is that we could manage to buy a new water heater and get all the water pipes re-connected except for the bathroom sink (and then there's the sewer line to the septic tank from the sink to deal with ... eeeewww!
For everyone's info...it's been below zero at night for days now. As I type this atgoing on 9:30 pm Saturday, temp is 7 degrees (highest temp today was 20F. Eastern Kentucky is NOT supposed to be this way for days/nights on end ... we should be plowing fields and basking in 40 degree temps, lol!
--Paula
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