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jon_chaissonYes, the winter begins next weekend, and we've finally broken down and turned on the heat. With new heaters, even! After the intake fan motor of our old heating unit crapped out last year, we finally got around to having our maintenance guys to install new units. Yes, that's a plural. The old one had an intake vent up near the ceiling, which heated the air and pushed it down a vent in the wall and split it up between the living room and the bedroom. Which was fine, except that neither of us were in the bedroom for most of the day when we did have it on. [Spare Oom has its own wall radiator unit.] The replacement units are separated so we can use the one in the living room without having to heat the bedroom as well. And not only are they quieter, they're a hell of a lot more cost effective! Yay lower electric bill!
Of course, last Thursday's weather was another good day for turning the heater on...as I'm sure you well know, we had HellaStorm that day, in which a ridiculously large front decided to come in off the northern shores and move down the coast. Normally this would give us some flash flood warnings and so on, but about halfway through the day this front decided that stalling right over San Francisco would be kind of fun. Hoo! That was one hell of a long storm. Started hitting us a bit after midnight, and didn't let up until at least Friday midmorning. I don't remember how many inches we got, but we got a LOT. There were floods and washouts galore all over the place.
All of which, I should add, made driving to SFO to pick up![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emmalyon Thursday night quite interesting. I made the mistake of getting on 280 and immediately decided to pull off at the next exit, and took all surface roads after that. It wasn't so much the roads that bothered me...it's that Californians have no idea how to deal with washouts and hydroplaning. Prevailing Theory: If I go real fast, I'll get through that giant puddle quicker! Yeah, that ain't gonna work, bud.
Suffice it to say, Casa EmmaJonc survived with nary a scratch during that whole storm, aside from a brief outage before I woke up and a few light flickers a few hours later. No leaks or anything else, which is good!
[You may have noticed I have no writing updates here, as I actually have none at the moment. Or at least nothing exciting to report. Maybe next weekend!]
Stay warm, kids! :)
Of course, last Thursday's weather was another good day for turning the heater on...as I'm sure you well know, we had HellaStorm that day, in which a ridiculously large front decided to come in off the northern shores and move down the coast. Normally this would give us some flash flood warnings and so on, but about halfway through the day this front decided that stalling right over San Francisco would be kind of fun. Hoo! That was one hell of a long storm. Started hitting us a bit after midnight, and didn't let up until at least Friday midmorning. I don't remember how many inches we got, but we got a LOT. There were floods and washouts galore all over the place.
All of which, I should add, made driving to SFO to pick up
emmalyon Thursday night quite interesting. I made the mistake of getting on 280 and immediately decided to pull off at the next exit, and took all surface roads after that. It wasn't so much the roads that bothered me...it's that Californians have no idea how to deal with washouts and hydroplaning. Prevailing Theory: If I go real fast, I'll get through that giant puddle quicker! Yeah, that ain't gonna work, bud.Suffice it to say, Casa EmmaJonc survived with nary a scratch during that whole storm, aside from a brief outage before I woke up and a few light flickers a few hours later. No leaks or anything else, which is good!
[You may have noticed I have no writing updates here, as I actually have none at the moment. Or at least nothing exciting to report. Maybe next weekend!]
Stay warm, kids! :)
