It's friggin' cold here. Ask me anything!

[Plaid Adder]

Yee ha,

The Plaid Adder

[Maddy McCall]

1. What kind of heat do you have?

If it's gas, how much is your gas bill each month?

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. I also live in Chicago.

In a 92-year-old 7-room two-story house with basement (that has a working heat vent in the laundry area). On Peoples Energy "budget" plan, gas bill is currently $212 a month. Also gas stove and dryer.

[Plaid Adder]

6. Gas, and the most recent bill

was over $200.

Brr,

The Plaid Adder

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. My company closed at noon today because of the cold in Chicago.

Jeez, what a day. Coldest since 12/22/00 -- a month that will live in infamy.

[Plaid Adder]

7. I'm in Indiana

Same latitude. Minus 2 when I got up this morning. What the hell is THAT?

Brrr,

The Plaid Adder

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Minus 8 at O'Hare this morning.

If you are in Indiana, you have had all that lake effect snow this year that we on the Far North Side have missed out on. what a winter.

[madrchsod]

14. what?

your company closed cause it was ,what 0 in chicago? hell,that`s not even cold.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Would you have complained?

Hey! My workday got cut short by 5 hours. It was a hellish week. Found out Monday my brother-in-law will have prostate cancer surgery on Tuesday, then my nephew in the National Guard is going to Afghanistan for the spring offensive -- 365 days at least and he had to withdraw from college. My level of concentration was in the toilet.

It was wonderful to have the week cut short. Hell, I went to buy new gloves since my old ones had died.

[nostamj]

4. i'm not shivering for the first time in weeks

my building lost all heat for several days and my apt. is so drafty that it's usually COLD.

tonight is pretty cozy, all things considered

[Plaid Adder]

10. Yeah, our house is poorly insulated.

We have a pellet stove which I am scared to fire up because I don't like burning things in the house. But really the house is usually OK. It's the friggin' outdoors that's the problem. That and the car. COLD! COLD COLD COLD!

I turned on the defrost one morning this week and it blew ice crystals at me. It was like I had discovered the secret of snowmaking by accident.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[bill]

5. BFD, how much snow do you have?

We've been under the lake-effect gun here on the SE shore of Lake Ontario. 115 inches this month - 60+ in the last 48 hrs.

I think I'll need to rebuild the snowblower engine :)

[Plaid Adder]

8. OK, we don't have 115 inches.

Smaller lake, I guess.

But we have a lot! And I have to do all the shoveling, most of the time.

Tote that barge, lift that bale,

The Plaid Adder

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. Boston has had the coldest January since the 1880s

Averaging 21 degrees-normal is 37. We had some of the coldest windchills ever recorded this month. It was a living hell! Today it was 25 and felt balmy. It's supposed to be in the upper 30s/40s for the enxt week or so-which is more normal.

[dflprincess]

12. The air temp was -24 in Minneapolis

when I went to work this morning; -40 windchill. The high today was
-5.

Nome, Alaska was warmer than we were today.

[Plaid Adder]

13. I heard about that!

Someone was telling me a flying horror story about how the deicer spray froze on the plane. Shudder.

My partner gets very worried about the homeless whenever it gets this cold. It really bothers her thinking of them being out in all this. I hope most of them can find somewhere to warm up.

Brrr,

The Plaid Adder