[Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

[Juli Tarsney]

Scott, I thought you lived in an apartment? Or condo? But you have to worry
about your furnace? We replaced ours last week – the blower stopped
working, and we naïvely thought it could be repaired – but it wouldn’t have
been worth it; the furnace was too old. Nice to know the one we have now is
under warranty for a while :-)

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 7:11 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 7pm CST: Temperature in Chicago is -1F, wind chill -22F.
> So that's -18C, wind chill -32C.
>
> Max temp tomorrow (Wednesday): -11F. Wind chills tonight down to -60F. I
> think at some point Fahrenheit and Celsius converge, or maybe it's just
> that below a certain point on both scales, it just doesn't matter.
> I'm running the bathroom faucet on a dribble (with a plastic cup placed
> sideways beneath it to lessen the noise) to help prevent the pipe from
> freezing. May dribble the kitchen faucet as well, and the bathtub too.
> Furnace has fresh filter and I'll set it down a couple of degrees for the
> night so it gets some rest occasionally. Would be no worries if we still
> had the hot-water radiator heating. Still got the neato old radiators in
> each room but the system behind them is long gone. We used to have to warn
> people not to burn their left leg as they used the loo. LOL
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:39 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > BTW, they're saying five minutes to frostbite once the wind-chill warning
> > goes into effect at 6 p.m. CST today, and throughout tomorrow. That means
> > it's even dangerous to go to the local market on foot without covering
> > every bit of skin. Goggles would be good. Glad I won't need to make that
> > short trip.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:35 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Right...One of the joys of full-time telework (and there are many) is
> the
> >> ability to work even when somewhat ill or when snowed in, as long as the
> >> data pipes don't freeze. :)
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:40 AM Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Glad you're safe with provisions! Wish it were a day off for you as
> well
> >>> but I'm thinking not : (
> >>>
> >>> Stay warm! It's unseasonably cold here but no freezing yet. I'm amazed
> >>> at some of the temperature variations all over the country.
> >>>
> >>> Lynn
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 29, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi from Chiberia! Here cometh the Polar Vortex. <ominous chord>
> >>>
> >>> I did trudge the two blocks to our nearest supermarket last night to
> get
> >>> some potentially essential provisions: a frozen pizza, mac & cheese,
> >>> pancake syrup, sliced gouda, and high-fiber cereal. And a freshly made
> >>> Bosnian cheese-filled pastry thing (like a spinach pie only without the
> >>> spinach, I guess). Obviously I did not run my shopping list past a
> >>> nutritionist. But I feel prepared not to leave the house until at least
> >>> Thursday. Cats have enough food, wet and dry.
> >>>
> >>> Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the historic record-low wind chill day. The
> >>> lowest
> >>> I can remember experiencing is -56 while a student at Michigan State U
> in
> >>> East Lansing. There was something so essential I had to brave the wind
> to
> >>> walk a block to the Mini-Mart convenience shop. Can't remember what;
> >>> perhaps generic chicken franks? Rum? Cans of Tab? Anyway, that level of
> >>> wind chill defies all thicknesses of sweaters and multiple shirts and
> >>> undershirts. Not to mention the exposed bits of my face. But I did have
> >>> to
> >>> expose my eyes to see where I was going, at least periodically.
> >>>
> >>> Won't be venturing out in that tomorrow. I pray for any who have no
> >>> option:
> >>> no place to go, or heaven forbid a fire or something that requires
> >>> evacuation. But the city is doing a great deal to make warm places
> >>> available: every police station, 66 field houses in city parks,
> off-duty
> >>> CTA buses, libraries, our neighborhood's wonderful indoor park/gym (The
> >>> Broadway Armory), and I'm sure more will open up as needs arise. Some
> of
> >>> the kinder bus drivers are amenable in such weather to bend the rules a
> >>> bit
> >>> and pick people up who wave them down, even if they're not strictly
> >>> standing at an officially marked bus stop. Actually, I hope they all do
> >>> this. (Normally, even in torrential rain, a driver will point to the
> >>> stop a
> >>> block ahead and make the person run to it if they want to board, or
> wait
> >>> for the next bus...a few do have more mercy than that, but some draw
> the
> >>> line sharply either because they're a-holes or because of safety
> concerns
> >>> with nonstandard boarding points.)
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, lots of school closures (the Chicago Public Schools are waiting
> >>> until tomorrow to close...I'm sure they'll get angry responses from
> >>> parents
> >>> about being open today). Current conditions: 1 degree Fahrenheit; wind
> >>> chill is minus 16F (what it feels like in the wind).
> >>>
> >>> Thank you, Mike, for thinking of us Scotts here in
> >>> soon-to-be-historically-cold Chicagoland!
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 7:09 AM M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >>>> It's 3:30 am here, so you might already be in the thick of what's
> >>> being
> >>> > predicted for Chicago "tomorrow".  -51 degrees !!!<<<
> >>> >
> >>> > I must have misheard.  But still, damn cold!
> >>> >
> >>> > M J (Mike) Logsdon.
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Scott R. Knitter
> >>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Scott R. Knitter
> >> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>