Temperatures Too Cold to Report???

[helmsdale]

How many people lived in that house? Our town won't even let us build a 850 sq ft house even built with today's insulation and high efficiency furnace so we can heat cheap and use less gas. We tried to develop a whole area of town but nope. Not sure What is a proper house in today's standards?

-Original bachelor built the first 400ft in the teens.
-Great grandfathers family of 4 possibly 5 by then moved into it in 1924.
-additional 450ft built on in early 30's to house a family of 7.
-grandfather's family of 4 lived in it from the 50s until they moved into town.
-we moved a family of 5 now 6 into it in the spring of 21. Hope we're out by next christmas.

[Happytrails]

How many people lived in that house? Our town won't even let us build a 850 sq ft house even built with today's insulation and high efficiency furnace so we can heat cheap and use less gas. We tried to develop a whole area of town but nope. Not sure What is a proper house in today's standards?

Permit rules ARE the problem. The sprawl of cities is driven by development and zoning rules.

[blackpowder]

Thank God for fossil fuels and the hero's of yesterday and today for keeping us alive.

Yes, before we begin I'd like to recognize we are holding today's event on land made safe by our fathers and grandfathers. In comfortable facilities built by same.

That's what I say in my head while the MC is saying something else....

[wmoebis]

Permit rules ARE the problem. The sprawl of cities is driven by development and zoning rules.

Yes of the 4 of us that wanted to start the development area we are all now the empty nesters and living in big houses that were built for big families, just what we wanted to avoid. We should be in the little bungalows and other families in these houses as starter homes. Instead young families are forced to build big houses that are expensive to build and maintain. Rural Municipal is the same. We wanted to build on some waste land on the same yard as acreage but MD wouldn't let us so farmer is now cutting grass on his 10 acre yard site.

[blackpowder]

140K btu furnace in a ~850sq ft house with 2x4 walls, limited roof insulation, and a dirt cellar. It's barely keeping up this morning. It's a stopgap until I can finish a proper house, but damn, all I can think is this place used to be heated with nothing more than a wood/coal stove! In past generations, I suspect everyone just slept on the kitchen/dining room floor.

-37f air temp, with an absolutely miserable 13mph wind this morning makes for a -64f windchill.

Grew up in a house just like that. Pieced together early in the last century. Luckily we had diesel heat.
And I was young, so no responsibilities. Your kids will have good memories.
I do however have no feeling in some toes from feeding cows back then.

[helmsdale]

Grew up in a house just like that. Pieced together early in the last century. Luckily we had diesel heat.
And I was young, so no responsibilities. Your kids will have good memories.
I do however have no feeling in some toes from feeding cows back then.

They got diesel heat in the addition sometime in the 40s, with the original portion still having a coal burning oven. Dad remembers sleeping in front of the old Quaker heaters in the living room on really cold nights, but the old half could be awful chilly come morning if no-one woke up in the middle of the night to stoke the oven.

Still -60°f windchill here. Had to stuff more insulation down the water well-pit and its damned near impossible to walk into the wind without a balaclava ladened face.

Perhaps with minimal snow cover this'll nuke some grasshopper eggs? Lord knows they layed a biblical infestation in waiting.

[blackpowder]

Pine beetle numbers apparently way down. One less thing to blame on our living standard.

Watch out for frost bite.
I can't keep my hands warm at all anymore.

[shtferbrains]

[QUOTE=helmsdale;n78697
Perhaps with minimal snow cover this'll nuke some grasshopper eggs? Lord knows they layed a biblical infestation in waiting.[/QUOTE]

Read one study saying -30 to -35 at surface no eggs hatched.
In lab experiment so hopefully that will happen in the field.
Be a big relief not to have to feed them.

[Landdownunder]

8 days aways weve got our first 47c even 48c been a few years. Cool cold summer here and looks like only 2 days of it. Was 39c yesterday actually enjoyed it finally some normal heat.
Some modelling has 8 days away at 52c now wont that be something. Wont happen

[seldomseen]

We are not as cold as out west but still bitter cold. Old house with 2-4 walls but with 2 inches of styrofoam insulation on the outside.
Would be really costly to heat with propane but the wood stove really helps in cold weather to keep the house cosy.

[Sodbuster]

Surviving this cold spell so far, hopefully it warms up by Easter.

[Taiga]

Was -51C in Jasper yesterday morning.
Where are you at Sodbuster, looks nice?