The dreaded snowflake hits Washington

You are lucky. I have had it on for 2 or 3 weeks now.

 

It hit Washington State (Spokane) also, a few days ago. But I ain't complaining, 'because where I moved here from it's gonna be 20 and 30 below zero (F) before too much longer, and can easily stay below zero (F) day and night for weeks at a time.

I remember my first winter in this one house that had a gravity-feed pot-type oil burner for heat. For two weeks the temperature went below 20 below every night, and never went above zero, and after a few days the oil gelled in the line and the fire went out and I woke up in the wee hours of the morning and the temperature inside my house was 20 degrees F. I had to bundle up and go outside into a 50-below-zero wind-chill to wrap heat tape around the fuel line, wait for it to liquify, and re-light the furnace.

Then there was the night the accumulated ash build-up caused the fire to dwindle and it was 40 inside when I woke up, and I had to shut the furnace off, wait for it to cool, scrape out the burn ring to clear it of ash, clean out the filthy mess, and re-light the furnace.

The following summer I installed an LP gas heater, even though I was renting the house.

I don't like the snowflake, but it just doesn't carry the same weight in Spokane as it did in North Dakota.

 

Hey Daniel....I used to live in "Nor-Dakoda dere" also. And, it was CCCCCold! Not so here in sunny San Diego.

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Its been in the low 20's, upper teens here all weekend and No snowflake !!!!! (I have a '06, and I dont think they have 'em) :lol: :lol:

 

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I could have moved to San Diego long ago, worked for my Dad, and made buckets of money. But the smog and the traffic and the crowding and the general ugliness of the city (any city) were no attraction to me. ND is cold, but it is beautiful, and the air is clean, and on average maybe six cars would pass me on my 3-mile morning jog. Crime is low and people are friendly and the air is clean and I had 1/4 acre of garden space on my 4-acre farmstead. I was poor, and in winter I was cold, but it was worth it...

Until about 3 years ago, when the cold finally became intolerable, and eventually I moved here, to Spokane, where I'm an easy drive from British Columbia, the most spectacularly beautiful country I've ever seen.

Where in ND did you live? And for how long? I moved there in 1970 and left almost exactly one year ago. (Though I was out of the country for 6 years.)

 

It will be right about zero degrees Fahrenheit here tonight. I've had really hard ice buildup on both the inside and outside of the windshield each morning. Even the block heater isn't helping much.