Monday, December 21, 2009
It's Official, Winter has Arrived!
December 21, the first day of winter. Up north, winter arrived a few days early with the Blizzard of 2009!! El Nino is really messing with us. In the Tampa Bay area we are also having winter, today the morning temps were in the high 40's and low 50's and didn't make it out of the 50's for the high. It looks like Christmas will be seasonal in the 60's and low 70's. I wonder if the snow up north will stay long enough for everyone to have a white Christmas or if it will all be gone? Could be rain showers for us. We are really catching up with our rain this winter which is great, it is safe to say the drought in the south is gone. My sister had a freeze in Greenville south Carolina but no snow. She was without electric for about 12hrs. Good thing she has a gas fireplace for heat! Anybody else have any early winter weather tales to tell?
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Up here in Vermont we use a "wood stove" for heat. That's right a wood stove. Which means you must order lots of pre-cut wood that gets dumped on your lawn, then it has to be picked up piece by piece and neatly stacked under a shed to stay dry. Then you have to frequently carry pieces of wood into your living room to place inside this primitive furnace know as a wood stove. If you can get the fire inside of it hot enough, it will radiate a fair amount of heat throughout the one floor house assuming you keep all room doors open. The house is equipped with a baseboard heating system but would require much furnace oil to keep the old drafty house warm. So until my wife and I can afford the extra oil, we have to use this ancient method to keep warm.
ReplyDeleteWell at least you have the alternative to the baseboard heating and the expensive furnace oil. I am sure you are not the only ones in Vermont! Glad you are keeping warm!!
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