Wood stove’s gonna be cooking later this week. Refilled all of the firewood racks from the big woodpile out back.

Got 2 tons of wood pellets out in the garage ready to fire up. Friday & Saturday watch out for frostbite ! Stock up now people, A little bourbon is necessary, as well !!

Is this real? It was almost 50 god damn degrees today.

Actual lows will be around -9 early Saturday morning.

The first real test of my mini splits heat pump. Fingers crossed because landlord neutered the old system so there’s no back up heating system.

And it was welcome

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My mini split worked fine down to 4 degrees last Winter. I would assume a similar output, certainly preheat the house tho lol.

-9 is extreme

Must be New England

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Yeah, dangerous conditions that kill vulnerable people are so funny

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These temperatures are rare for this specific area. Temps like these could easily kill people who are left to exposure. This is not just any other weather event lol

Not really all the rare. Negative temps are pretty normal where I grew up in the Berkshires. Maybe not normal this year, but I remember negative temps in the winters of my childhood.

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Same here but with a whole house ducted. Luckily I still have my gas furnace backup.

This 40-50 degree highs every day of January just didn’t use to happen here. I remember having a week of school cancelled because it was too cold to have kids wait for the bus. the highs were in the single digits with wind chill well into negatives. School cancelled because pipes burst everywhere.

On another note, I’d remember every spring when you could finally use the fields again. We wouldn’t see grass from December until at least the middle of March.

I hate this blah overcast, 45 degree shit. It’s going to stay like this until may too. That’s the depressing part. At least I used to be able to make epic snow forts and sled and snowboard in a lot of snow. Now that I’m adult it’s just convenient for it to not be snowing. People are going to forget how to live in the extreme cold And snow pretty quickly. Kids growing up here today have a totally different climate than I had here growing up 20 years ago

I really don’t understand why landlord took out furnace it wasn’t interfering with new system.

If you have a furnace with forced hot water, I've heard recommendations that you manage things so that the furnace is pumping at least a little heat so the water keeps circulating.

Would love to hear how heat pumps do in this! Looking into getting some myself.

I think you get a bigger rebate if you replace the old gas system (if they used mass save for a rebate)

I want to downvote you because I find this upsetting. I will upvote you as thanks for bringing this to my attention. 😢

I grew up in the 80s and 90s and remember literally jumping off the roof of our one story house into the snow all the time - it was a yearly tradition.

My own kids the other day were outside playing in the mud…