[Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

Wed Jan 30 02:12:01 UTC 2019

Scott- saw pictures on the evening news of the RR ties under the tracks in Chicago to keep them from freezing - never heard or seen of such a solution. I have Farmer friends just across the border in MI and in Minneapolis MN who are getting the same or worse. I hope this cold doesn't linger. 
Lynn 

On Jan 29, 2019, at 7:58 PM, Juli Tarsney <juli at tarsney.net> wrote:

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
> 