-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Mark Hofmann on 28 Jan 14  13:30:58 <=-

 >> Our house in Windsor, which we're trying to get on the market to sell
 >> suffered frozen pipes and an explosion of water all over the house in the
 >> freeze last week.. repairs haven't even been completed there yet, and
 >> we're expeting another very low temp freeze. The weather moguls say this
 >> coming freeze isn't supposed to be as bad as the last one, but somehow
 >> I'm not encouraged.
 > Yikes - good luck with your repair.  Yes, with these cold temps and a
 > furance that is not working, even the interior pipes will freeze.
 JK> Ancient oil furnace :)  and I mean ancient.. but now the furnace is
 JK> doing ok, which is a good thing.  Thank goodness we just had word from
 JK> the Ins. company that they'll pay for all the repairs, so now they are
 JK> going to be determining the total amount of damage, etc. 

Glad that's finally been settled...  I was going to jump in before, but
got too far behind... ;)

 JK> I feel like I'm at a loss with the "where do we start?" with the
 JK> repairs though :)  I'm hoping the service agency that going to
 JK> determine the damage will help with that.
 
That would be a big help... it is awfully overwhelming...  :)

 >It has been a very cold January, that's for sure.  We have broken many 
 > records on several days.  We hit a "lowest high temp" on one of the
 > days when it only hit 12 degrees - as a high temp.

 JK> hehe.. over here, yesterday we were at 3F daytime and -5 last night. 
 JK> Insane to me :)  I think when the house froze, the lows that night
 JK> were -10 or something though. 

It's been at least that bad here, too... I'm just thankful that we've
been having sunny days along with the snow and cold...  :)  Our furnace
works somewhat, and the house is well insulated, but we've woken to a
rather cold house a time or three lately... when the furnace decided
that cycling off was easier to do than turning back on when it was
time... and Richard had to wake up to restart things... Lots of blankets
on the heated water bed, and we're doing ok... ;)

 > Been hovering in the single digits to around zero many of the nights around
 > here.
 > Certianly am starting to know what it feels like to live on the north pole.

 JK> Yes, I know what you mean :)

I've been tracking temps and weather in Massena, too... I think they
probably think they ARE at the north pole... sub-zero temps for highs,
wind chills much lower...  Glad we don't live there...  although,
probably we'd get used to that, too...  

ttyl        neb

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