All weekend all we heard was “THE STORM IS COMING! SUNDAY! IT’S COMING!”
So Sunday shows up. It starts raining. Okay. “IT’LL TURN TO SNOW AND SLEET! LOOK OUT!”
It didn’t.
“OH. WE WERE KIDDING! IT’S DEFINITELY COMING TOMORROW NOW!”
Monday shows up. Nothing. Monday afternoon “NO NO! IT’S STILL COMING! CLOSE THE SCHOOLS! GET YOUR SHOTGUNS TO PROTECT YOUR LAND!”
Monday afternoon shows up. I think it might’ve rained in spots. I saw some… dampness here and there on my way home.
She doesn’t mind the delays as much - gets to read the paper or an extra cup of coffee or a long walk with the dog. What Frost’s her is when the delay then becomes a cancel and it’s still dark out and no one else is up but it’s too late to come back to bed
Our Super must be afraid of something - we’re in the suburbs too but every town within 15 miles will be calling it the night before but ours will wait until 530 or 6 the next morning just in case they’re all wrong and it will be fine. Maybe there’s some kind of superintendent award you get for not calling it when it wasn’t necessary
Most of the parents are both working so they’d much rather a closing or delay vs the dreaded early closing when it turns out that the roads are awful and getting worse instead of better. Parents have to slog back from work for the kids when the buses bring them back home early. Then they’re ripped
10 miles south of us they got sleet & freezing rain Sunday and 3 or so inches last night.
5 miles up the road they got 24inches +.
We live in the valley on the north side of an east-west ridge. It’s always colder (about 8 or 9 degrees) and usually snowier. Except when the snow hits the ridge and drops on the other side
I have never seen that happen here! Early releases are also incredibly rare. They won’t do them in the cities because the kids simply have nowhere to go and noone to pick them up. I think we had an early release once and my oldest is in 8th grade.
We usually get our major snow (if we have any) late in the season- like Feb/March. I would absolutely take some now though! Maybe it would encourage the last leaves to finally fall. . .
My highschool in Sheffield MA had never closed due to snow prior to one 2 week stretch when I was there in the late 80s. This is a boarding school so “closed” meant no school, no sports - so basically 2 week vacation on campus with the only check-ins being breakfast (7amish) and study hall (7pmish). It was glorious
This year they did an emergency “Classes aren’t going to start on Monday, but Wednesday instead, so don’t travel on Sunday” announcement - except, except for the kids from MA/NY/CT already all had plane tickets so I’m not sure the “not traveling” happened…it was an interesting choice :-/
Hi there, do you have any reccomendation to the lowest temperature at which it is still safe to use such an external ventilation ? I guess at sub zero (celsius) temperatures you would not keep the duct open without the wift in action as the glowforge would cool down too much. Is there a danger when running the GF with a duct that leads to the outside at e.g. -10 degrees celsius?
The bigger danger is my heating bill… it was well below -10C today, which is typical at this time of year. And to be honest I can’t think of anytime in the year, I don’t want louvres. Summer would be a disaster with air conditioning inside and warm humid air going back down and condensing in the glowforge…
We’re lucky here with the temperature only dropping to freezing at night, and no snow.
Which is just as well, as my visiting 2yo great grandson from UK, on his second day here, managed to lock the whole family out of the house, by turning the lock on the storm screen.
Glowfinger to the rescue - or rather the acrylic window pane that holds the louvre vent.
Able-bodied grandson pushes it into the GF room, vent and all.
Didn’t take long to replace the two sheets of acrylic that made it up, and so back in business.
Have now hidden a spare key to the garage side door outside the house !
John
made snorkel. With a lean-to on top.
