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Chukzombi

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a wood burning stove heater can be tricky, you have to keep anything combustible a good ten feet away from it. you have to feed it like every other hour and you can only have like one or maybe 2 elbows on your chimney pipe or else your house is going to be full of smoke. cleanup can be a pain in the ass too. not the removing the ashes part, but cleaning out the goddamned thing every once in a while to keep the creosote from clogging up the works. then you got your wood which you want to make sure is bone dry. sure its free if you are outin the woods to heat your home, but its also a lot of your time.
 
lurkingdirk

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I have a wood stove perfectly located in my house. In this very, VERY cold snap our furnace has only come on a couple of times toward morning when the stove has died down. I also have access to pretty much unlimited free wood. I've never had a gas bill higher than about 75$, and that was while I was being lazy and not using the stove as much.

Yeah, there's mess and work involved, but I still love it.
 
Eomer

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Nester_sl said:
You are not wrong, but of course the flip side is, you have an actual fire going on inside your house. Heating fires are the second leading cause of burning down your house, cooking being #1. Ongoing maintenance and inspections are key, and of course keeping the area clear of combustibles.

So far this is the warmest winter I can recall in western Canada
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The fuck? I dunno where exactly you are, but in Alberta only January has been warm. October, November and December were colder than usual, with a shit ton more snow. I think that with how warm it was in January, it's roughly balanced out to an average winter.
 
mkopec

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My wifes old man lives in northern michigan, right in the fucking snow belt to boot. His annual snow fall is measured in feet, not inches.

Anyway, a wood burner is pretty much all he uses to heat his entire house. Its 3 story 2000sq ft house. (He only heats the main floor) But he spends tons of time in the summer doing the wood thing. But he has the equipment to do it too with too like a log splitter, tractor, etc... He pretty much fills up a 10ft x10 ft x10 ft wood storage shed from floor to ceiling. He also likes it warm too. I swear its like 80F in there. He also has an unlimited supply of wood, well, he should, he lives in the woods on 30 acres.

We used to have a wood burner in the basement of our old house. (Used to be the parents house) It had the insulated pipe going through one of the bedroom closets. But we never ran it. My old man was always afraid of it. Anyway, one cold day I decided to light the fucker up ( I lived in the basement when I was a teen) but did not have the flute opened properly. So the house filled up with smoke in like 2 minutes. So the next weekend project was to take the fucker out. Hehe.
 
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So it "snowed" in south Alabama and we shut everything down haha. Schools are closed, which is cool bc I can catch up on my assignments but I still gotta get to work in the morning. People who are used to snow are like "why is everyone freaking out!?" but honestly, people around here don't know how to drive in this crap. We get "snow" like once every 10 years or so. Seriously, it was 65 degrees yesterday! Crazy weather...
This is snow in the south lol
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Heylel

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Atlanta is an absolute nightmare. Thousands of cars abandoned, and supermarkets taking people in for shelter overnight. No one can get home. I managed to make it to a friend's house, and I'm one of the lucky ones.
 
Malakriss

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Places that don't have road treatments or plows at all I feel for, but we have that here and it only takes a little more than that photo before everyone freaks out like it's the end of the world for the week.
 
Goatface

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funny, in the last month have been under every major snow warning they have and gotten jack shit. last week, they were calling for major snow event and started salting the roads at 5pm and had snow plows out all night and ended up with 1/4 inch.
for today, was a small chance of a trace dusting, got like 4 inches, snow plows just started.
 
Cybsled

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Definitely highlights differences between the South and Northeast. 1-2 inches = lol.
 
Rod-138

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TragedyAnn_sl said:
So it "snowed" in south Alabama and we shut everything down haha. Schools are closed, which is cool bc I can catch up on my assignments but I still gotta get to work in the morning. People who are used to snow are like "why is everyone freaking out!?" but honestly, people around here don't know how to drive in this crap. We get "snow" like once every 10 years or so. Seriously, it was 65 degrees yesterday! Crazy weather...
This is snow in the south lol
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Yup I'm at the tip of the bird of South Louisiana (Fourchon) and everything is shut down for 26 degree weather. I'm stuck at work an extra day due to interstates shut down and what not.

You're right though, we simply can't drive on this shit. It doesn't compute
 
Falstaff

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Heylel_sl said:
Atlanta is an absolute nightmare. Thousands of cars abandoned, and supermarkets taking people in for shelter overnight. No one can get home. I managed to make it to a friend's house, and I'm one of the lucky ones.
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Glad you are safe. Last night I was reading about it thinking... that's adorable. Now I'm reading more this morning and I feel like an asshole.
 
Heylel

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I finally managed to make it home this morning. My girlfriend is still at her parents place about 15 miles away. It was closer on her commute to stop there last night. My mom made it to her place about 5:45 a.m. after sheltering at Publix to charge her phone. She couldn't make it all the way home, had to abandon her car to walk the rest of the way, and was luckily picked up by a police officer who drove her the last mile.

It's not just "lol Atlantans can't drive in snow". This was a massive, massive blunder on the part of weathermen predicting where the snow would hit and when. By the time we all got on the roads at noon to try and get ahead of the weather it was too late.
 
Deathwing

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Ugh, fucking heater has been on all damn night. Anyone know of a good way to determine where most of the heat is being lost? Or is this normal for these temperatures(-4 last night)? Note: I have a tankless water heater and baseboard heating. No idea if that applies or not.





And no central AC either!
 
Eomer

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Whoever installed the heating in your place American Inventor-rigged it. Water heaters shouldn't be used for anything other than domestic water usage. That's what boilers are designed for. As far as finding out where your heat is being lost, you can pay someone to do an audit of your house, or you could rent an IR camera to find hot/cold spots.
 
Cybsled

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Heylel_sl said:
I finally managed to make it home this morning. My girlfriend is still at her parents place about 15 miles away. It was closer on her commute to stop there last night. My mom made it to her place about 5:45 a.m. after sheltering at Publix to charge her phone. She couldn't make it all the way home, had to abandon her car to walk the rest of the way, and was luckily picked up by a police officer who drove her the last mile.

It's not just "lol Atlantans can't drive in snow". This was a massive, massive blunder on the part of weathermen predicting where the snow would hit and when. By the time we all got on the roads at noon to try and get ahead of the weather it was too late.
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Even on untreated roads, 1 or 2 inches isn't that bad so long as traffic keeps moving (the wind from passing vehicles acts as a snowblower in a manner of speaking, which can at least make for some clearish spots on the road). However, traffic issues can easily snowball (pun intended) if one derp can't drive in it and crashes/spins out. Then traffic stops moving and the snow begins to accumulate on the roadways more, which creates more traffic issues.

Even during a major blizzard/nor'easter where the snow is coming down wicked fast and they haven't had a chance to clear it, so long as traffic keeps moving (even at a slow pace), it doesn't get to bad. But we have derps up here as well (lol me have SUV...me drive 90mph!! lolllllllllllll!!!!! o shit!!!! wtf, 4 wheel drive supposed to make me immune to sliding!!!!11!) and you get that bad traffic jam effect (albeit with higher snow accumulations typically).
 
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