Interesting Weather Zone
OK, we seem to be in that part of the wintertime when we have interesting weather on a daily basis. We had a warming trend late last week which melted almost all of the accumulated snow (approximately 1 foot) we got between Christmas and New Year's. Then we got another 2 inches of snow over the weekend coupled with very cold temperatures, creating a hazardous mix of ice and sharp snow on the ground, especially the driveways and parking lots. Now a chinook wind is blowing, gusting between 30 and 45 miles an hour. The snow has vanished entirely. It is 55° outside. I ventured out to collect various items from the yard that were starting to blow around like the lid of the garbage can, and a spare cat litter box. During the new construction, we had to demolish the old shed which used to hold a lot of this stuff. A fair amount went to the dump, but other items are simply stacked against what is usually the lee side of the house. When the wind comes out of a different quarter, it pays to go and check and make sure things aren't straying away.
At least now that the builder's work is completed, windstorms like these are no longer sucking out pink insulation flocking from the attic and distributing it over the neighborhood.
So far, the new construction is holding up well, having been tested by a fairly decent snow burden, ice, torrential rain, and now wind. The new part of the house is less noisy than the older part; I think modern insulation conducts less sound between the outside and inside.
Of course, my bedroom being in the old part of the house and on the windward side, it is subject to all sorts of little noises, many of them due to the fact that an old TV cable is hanging loose and tapping on the wall outside with every vagrant gust of wind. I really ought to go out and find some way of clipping it to the siding so it doesn't flap around in wind storms like this, but I never think of it when the weather is calm. -__-
At least now that the builder's work is completed, windstorms like these are no longer sucking out pink insulation flocking from the attic and distributing it over the neighborhood.
So far, the new construction is holding up well, having been tested by a fairly decent snow burden, ice, torrential rain, and now wind. The new part of the house is less noisy than the older part; I think modern insulation conducts less sound between the outside and inside.
Of course, my bedroom being in the old part of the house and on the windward side, it is subject to all sorts of little noises, many of them due to the fact that an old TV cable is hanging loose and tapping on the wall outside with every vagrant gust of wind. I really ought to go out and find some way of clipping it to the siding so it doesn't flap around in wind storms like this, but I never think of it when the weather is calm. -__-