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Wow! Jack. That is some kind of cold you got going on down there.

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Sounds like you were bearing the brunt of the storm, SIX! Sis texted me to say they got a whopping 4" of light fluffy stuff.

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When I was working, I often had identical instrument models, with identical PNs, and identical exterior appearance - but completely different guts inside. Different valves, different plumbing, different configuration, different servo motors ... different a lot of things. I sometimes think it was because the company had outsourced its manufacturing, and when parts ran short, adjustments were made on the fly.

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Wow! Jack. That is some kind of cold you got going on down there.

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Sounds like you were bearing the brunt of the storm, SIX! Sis texted me to say they got a whopping 4" of light fluffy stuff.

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Yeah. It's so gross. Buildings around here and in Chicago have actually had their roofs collapse because of the snow/ice weight. I haven't heard anything about house roofs collapsing yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people's gutters start to fall off.

I just knocked off about 200lbs of icicles from my gutters today. 5" gutters and they're full of ice now and spilling over. A house across the street from me and a few doors down from front to back on the side of the house I can see has 7 foot icicles nearly touching the ground. I can't believe somebody hasn't gone out there and knocked them down. I don't know them, otherwise I'd go over there and do it myself. I know they have a few small kids there, so I hope they're going to make sure the kids don't play around that when it warms up until they knock them down or they fall off.

5 more days of this frigid cold before we get some highs above freezing. And there's still a possibility that we get another foot of snow before the temps become warm enough to start getting rid of the nearly 40" we've got over the last 3 weeks.

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Yeah. I heard about that. I guess it's freakin' abnormally cold down even by Texas right now too and a lot of their power went out.

We maybe got an inch last night. Not too bad. The only snow remaining in the forecast until our first day above freezing is 2 to 3" on Sunday night. Monday is going to be cloudy and just 33 degrees, so probably won't help much.

But then Tuesday and Wendsday look to be highs of 40 degrees with the sun! Yay!

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One of the things I used to notice was that some houses had lots and lots of snow on them with no icicles and some houses had no snow and lots of icicles. The difference was insulation. The houses with no/ minimal insulation lost a lot of heat through the roof which melted the snow which refroze as icicles when it hit the colder edges and gutters. And the houses with lots of snow and no icicles were far better insulated.

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Back from my walk and no rain. Been invited out to supper and I should take my umbrella with me in case.

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I just spent hours outside shoveling snow away from my house and the gutters. It hasn't snowed in a few days, and it's still not close to 32 degrees, but the sun was out and one of my downspouts was actually working. Bad news was that it was going nowhere except for right up against the foundation of my back porch with slushy ice water that is going to freeze again shortly now that the sun is going to go down.

I'm hoping what I did today doesn't backfire. It feels nice not having several feet of snow up against my house, but depending on how it melts and how much rain/snow we get in the future, I could have possibly just built an ice moat that is going to hold water in later.

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Even though my back yard has snow so deep that it's still almost up to my crotch while walking through it

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there is hardly any up against the back of my house where the flooding through walls typically occurs. The gutters seem to have kept that area somewhat free of snow, and whatever melting has taken place there hasn't ended up in my basement at all yet.

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I also saw what could only be racoon tracks from the street right up to the mature maple tree closest to my house, yet there is no evidence of even a paw print on the roof of the house. Maybe I was actually able to manage to cut the branches back far enough with the 12' ladder and the telescoping cutter.

So even with the additional height and padding of the snow and the ice on the roof, it looks like mama racoon must have climbed back down and decided that she could find a better place to try having her babies this year.

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I could have possibly just built an ice moat that is going to hold water in later.

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Maybe I was actually able to manage to cut the branches back far enough with the 12' ladder and the telescoping cutter.

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Back from my walk and no rain. Been invited out to supper and I should take my umbrella with me in case.

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Holy jeeze that's a busy day, Signy! That to me would be a busy week or two.

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Back from my walk and no rain. Been invited out to supper and I should take my umbrella with me in case.

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I hope you have a nice supper, BRENDA!

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Back from my walk and no rain. Been invited out to supper and I should take my umbrella with me in case.

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I just spent hours outside shoveling snow away from my house and the gutters. It hasn't snowed in a few days, and it's still not close to 32 degrees, but the sun was out and one of my downspouts was actually working. Bad news was that it was going nowhere except for right up against the foundation of my back porch with slushy ice water that is going to freeze again shortly now that the sun is going to go down.

I'm hoping what I did today doesn't backfire. It feels nice not having several feet of snow up against my house, but depending on how it melts and how much rain/snow we get in the future, I could have possibly just built an ice moat that is going to hold water in later.

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The joys of a flood plain. There's always accumulation.

Instinct tells me it's a good idea to get the 2 feet of snow as far away from the front and side of the house as I possibly can. But after I do it I realize I have 3 feet of snow all around my house, and a fairly good chance that a lot of that is just going to melt back where I don't want it to go.

Once it starts melting I really have no power over it anymore. Finger's crossed.

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Even though my back yard has snow so deep that it's still almost up to my crotch while walking through it

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Yup.... we had 40" in about 3 weeks. That's more than we typically get in an entire Chicagoland winter... Not the first time I've ever seen that in my life, but it is the first time I've never seen any of it go anywhere because the temperature was so cold for so long. What's really crazy is how late into February it is.

But I think we made it. Nothing but 30's in the 10 day forecast, and after tomorrow night, no snow for about a week. Hopefully at least some of that ice melts off my roof and gutters before we get another big one.

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I also saw what could only be racoon tracks from the street right up to the mature maple tree closest to my house, yet there is no evidence of even a paw print on the roof of the house. Maybe I was actually able to manage to cut the branches back far enough with the 12' ladder and the telescoping cutter.

So even with the additional height and padding of the snow and the ice on the roof, it looks like mama racoon must have climbed back down and decided that she could find a better place to try having her babies this year.

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It still bothers me that I even saw the tracks at all though.

I'm about 99% sure it was a raccoon. Seems far too big to be those of a squirrel, and it wouldn't be a rabbit that bee-lined straight for a tree.

Even more compelling is what looks like a single track. I don't give much credit to the dumber rodents, and it would seem to me that a crafty raccoon would be the animal who took the exact same path back out of the snow that they took in.

I'll be monitoring the situation now. She may have just decided it wasn't worth trying to jump down only to have to eat through a foot of ice to then eat through the roof.

It might look more appealing to her once everything melts.

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After deciding I wasn't going to do much today after playing in the snow and having a late night at my bud's house yesterday, I did get around to spending about 5 hours scraping off old adhesive on the kitchen sub-floor by hand. Crappy, boring work, but nothing very strenuous and it eventually needs to be done. Hit the area behind the fridge plus a foot or two, about a foot and a half in front of the sink and a few feet in from the entry door.

Taking a quick break right now, but I'm going to hit it all with primer like I did under the stove and dishwasher tonight. It's still going to get dirty for sure, but nowhere near as dirty as the still somewhat active adhesive has after 45 days or so of being exposed and pulling every stray speck of dirt off of my boots. I need to seal in what could possibly be asbestos sub floor, and that will be all the areas most likely to take on any water.

Eventually I'll get the rest of the floor, but I really only need/want to do a bit of it at a time in between other tasks.

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I always liked going to sleep to the sound of the rain. Since I was actually cozy and dry it made me feel even cozier. And now that you're cozy and dry, I hope you find it enjoyable too.

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Over here, I manged to do a little more weeding, bin up the greenwaste (fallen pine branches, weeds, dead plants), water the property (again, to make sure the water goes deep), dust the house, dd and I swept and vacuumed, she scrubbed the toilets, and I stripped and flattened a bunch of boxes. And, of course, walked the doggie. Sent off a couple of important emails, and ... that was my day! As much as I could accomplish, anyway.

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I hate chores... at least the indoor ones. At least DD does the toilets. I hate bathroom chores more than anything else.


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