[Magdalen] Brrrrr...

[Charles Wohlers]

The temperature here, at 11AM is -2. That's the recorded state high so far 
today, BTW. The airport in Montpelier (up on a hill, so gets lots of wind) 
recorded a wind chill early the AM of -40. Our low here last night was a 
balmy -12.

Meanwhile, I did get someone to go take care of my furnace in Mass. Took him 
30 minutes to shovel a path to the house (he wasn't happy about that, 
needless to say). However, the boiler was easily refilled and the furnace 
was working again. However - the freeze alarm kept calling us all night, 
meaning the temperature never got above 45 in the house. Called the neighbor 
with a key just a little while ago, who went over and reported that the heat 
was on and the thermostat said 37 - so apparently with the extreme cold and 
wind the furnace is having a hard time getting the house warmer. So all is 
(at least somewhat) well and I don't have to rush down there. Really looking 
forward to shoveling the driveway when I get down there - its condition is 
much like Ann's. Just call me a happy homeowner.   :-(

Meanwhile, got out my snowshoes, so that once I get down to Mass. I can go 
out back and tack scions from the apple trees for grafting next month (makes 
new little trees). And this AM I heard the chickadees making their early 
spring dee-dee call. Spring will come!!!!!

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ann Markle
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 10:50 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Brrrrr...

Our temperature in Buffalo at 10:45 am is -3.1 F (but who's counting the
.1?), with a wind chill of -17 F (yep, that's MINUS 17).  I was out
shoveling earlier in my many layers and down coat, and was fine, but my
face got a little cold (had a scarf pulled up high, but not over my nose
and mouth, as that fogs up my glasses).  My fingers, even in ski gloves,
got painfully cold, so I came in to warm up.  I shoveled out a good bit of
the lower driveway (this is not a long driveway, mind you), and scattered
ice-melter stuff on it.  It was previously shoveled, but not down to the
pavement, and so narrow that I can barely get in and out of my car when
it's in the drive.  The snow is piled up as high as my head (I'm 5'1") on
either side, so it's a feat to lift it up high enough to throw it on top.
It's too cold for the melter-stuff to work (or so says the radio), but the
sun is shining, so I'm hoping that will help melt about 2 inches of
remaining "stuff" (snow and ice), so I can then clear that away, back up my
car, and get to work on the upper driveway.  The other night my 2 neighbors
pushed my car in as far as it would go, and Cheryl still had to park her
little Fiat partway across the sidewalk.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So Marion you sent all of Canada's cold air to New England????  We have
> about a -20F wind chill right now.
>
>