Canada & USA

Talk to us Penny in Ontario ! Are you O.K. ?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20110125/twl-northeast-us-gripped-by-arctic-blast-6ae0455.html

 

-45C and "meteorologist Michael Hill claimed: "This is the coldest air we've had in about two years.""

Whereas Heathrow grinds to a halt for nearly a week when we have a couple of inches of snow :(

 

Hey Ziggy. I am from over here in Pennsylvania, USA. yes its cold, but moveable at my location.

If you wish to google map my area, I live in Chester County, PA, USA

My town is called Parkesburg.

 

Blimey, my apologies, Redstar.

I was trying to think of other members in the area, but just kept coming up with ones from other forums, didn't mean to neglect you.[hr]
Got it Redstar,

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?rlz=1T4GFRE_enGB370GB370&q=Parkesburg&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

With your screen name, i'd always assumed you were in Texas for some reason.:DOH:[hr]

 

Hey here is a link to last years snow. These are blizzard number one and blizzard number two. This is around my house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ch31htm0c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y701IIENTXc

Hoe not a replay.

 

Hi Zig.......

Yep.....we've been in the middle of that for the past few days.....its been awful, it hurts to take a breath when your outside, its so cold!!

The good thing is that, that cold front has moved on, BUT there is another moving in again tomorrow for the next few days!!!

They werent allowing kids outside for recess here, some schools were closed due to frozen pipes, or broken pipes.......i cant wait to see my gas bill for this month!!

 

That sounds dangerously cold.

You'll be thinking about a woodburner for next year then. Mine cost £1,020, runs 9 radiators & the hot water during the winter (solar hot water from march to october).

Coldest winter for 30 odd years, fuel bill - Just the electricity to run the pumps. Stock up on wood during the summer, pallets, timber from builders skips ( Most would rather give it to you than have to pay to send it to landfill ) & driftwood after storms.

 

[size=large]Ziggy- do you find it worth it the installation of solar panels? Do they also gather energy when the sun is behind clouds (since one can get scalds in that way i would imagine so)?
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Hi Flower,

It was worth it here as the first year we moved in to the conversion we had to have the woodburner on to heat the water during the summer. Because the place is so insulated it was too hot inside. They do work in overcast conditions, been dull all day here but it did switch on about lunchtime when the clouds broke briefly.

Only get a few degrees out of it during the winter but during the summer it'll heat the water in the tank to 50c+

If it goes above 60c then a red flashing light comes on to warn of scald danger. There is a temperature sensor in the panel & one on the hot water tank, it starts to pump when the panel is 10c higher than the tank. Sometimes it over runs after sunset as the hot water in the system fools it into thinking the sun is still out. To stop that, we switch off the controler for a few mins till the temperature in the panel drops.

Last year I was away & the mrs forgot to switch it back on again till late afternoon. The panel temp was 174c.

The system cost about £1,200

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y701IIENTXc

This is number 2 blizzard from last year. Looks close to that today.
I put this in earlier, with the number one blizzard seems it can't handle two video per reply.
will go put the number one blizzard in following this one.
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And here is the first blizzard from last year. Again looking out my window today, looks the same to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ch31htm0c

 

Hi Redstar,

Is this what you were trying to post ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ch31htm0c

 

Yes Ziggy. I saw it posted, not sure what happened. I also have another one of the 2nd blizzard.
Thank you.[hr]
Here is the number 2 Blizzard from last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y701IIENTXc