Starting the fire
The weather is winter again.
I didn't take it seriously when they started all the snow warnings. I was right as snow was barley noticeable but then last night I started hearing strange sound. Like something throwing sand at the building. I came out and it was raining ice.
It wasn't hail. Hail is white and dry. It was like rain but with hard, tranculent ice nucleus inside each drop. By the morning it looked like world has been in the hands of crazy sugar confectioner - all sugar and icing. This is when it got really dangerous. When I went outside today I slipped, almost fell and whent back to change shoes.
When the snow warnings came they put salt on all sidewalks. The thing is it got stuck under the snow and ice and is not helping at all. But today was the first time I saw snow shovels being used to clean sidewalks so progress.
I wouldn't really mind too much if not for the fact that the flats here are not really made for cold. The heating system doesn't really heat the place up too well and windows and doors are draughty. The heating made the bill higher then it was during the summer. I used the fireplace for the first time today but it didn't give out a lot of heat. I never had a fireplace before so I don't know if it was made that way or if i did something wrong. My father says I need to keep fire on for longer so the whole thing warms up and starts to give out heat but it's kind of hard to do between being at work and sleeping.
I didn't take it seriously when they started all the snow warnings. I was right as snow was barley noticeable but then last night I started hearing strange sound. Like something throwing sand at the building. I came out and it was raining ice.
It wasn't hail. Hail is white and dry. It was like rain but with hard, tranculent ice nucleus inside each drop. By the morning it looked like world has been in the hands of crazy sugar confectioner - all sugar and icing. This is when it got really dangerous. When I went outside today I slipped, almost fell and whent back to change shoes.
When the snow warnings came they put salt on all sidewalks. The thing is it got stuck under the snow and ice and is not helping at all. But today was the first time I saw snow shovels being used to clean sidewalks so progress.
I wouldn't really mind too much if not for the fact that the flats here are not really made for cold. The heating system doesn't really heat the place up too well and windows and doors are draughty. The heating made the bill higher then it was during the summer. I used the fireplace for the first time today but it didn't give out a lot of heat. I never had a fireplace before so I don't know if it was made that way or if i did something wrong. My father says I need to keep fire on for longer so the whole thing warms up and starts to give out heat but it's kind of hard to do between being at work and sleeping.