Alas, no pictures
I really need to stock up on emergency supplies. I like to keep my cupboard close to empty to reduce unneeded snacking and although I'm not out of food, I did start to suffer cola withdrawl so I decided to take a walk to the grocery store. That expedition didn't last long as there are up to 2-3 feet of snow covering the sidewalks and a lane of the roads is taken up with snowbank overflow (the residential roads are still not ploughed). I guess I'll have to wait until tommorrow.
At the end of the evening, I realized that I had best check the state of the vents. I'm still not used to these air-tight city houses so I didn't clue in at first that airflow could actually be an issue. Fortunately, although the furnace exhaust emerges from the house a foot below the top of the snow-level, the fumes have melted a good wide hole and the carbon-monoxide detector is giving a steady "status normal".
irony: the UV index was high enough today that I was in danger of getting a sunburn while shoveling snow
statistic: snowfall for the winter so far: 407.3cm (a little over 13 feet). The record was around 444.6cm in 70/71, which had a legendary bridge-destroying spring flood. We're so close, it's hard not to root for the record.
At the end of the evening, I realized that I had best check the state of the vents. I'm still not used to these air-tight city houses so I didn't clue in at first that airflow could actually be an issue. Fortunately, although the furnace exhaust emerges from the house a foot below the top of the snow-level, the fumes have melted a good wide hole and the carbon-monoxide detector is giving a steady "status normal".
irony: the UV index was high enough today that I was in danger of getting a sunburn while shoveling snow
statistic: snowfall for the winter so far: 407.3cm (a little over 13 feet). The record was around 444.6cm in 70/71, which had a legendary bridge-destroying spring flood. We're so close, it's hard not to root for the record.