Wow! No I didn't but just did. God that's crazy! Love it. Just like a sauna. It's awesome as long as my 69 degree house or car is close by. I saved mowing my lawn until the hottest part of the day yesterday. I was dripping within the first 5 minutes. I think I'll go squeegee the windows for some fun right now. Thanks for kicking me out there.
we keep ours at 70. thanks to the roof project we have absolutely no insulation above our kitchen and family room right now. so the house is a balmy 74. they cleaned out all of the insulation last week and blew a fresh coat of it in above the ceiling. can't wait to see the omprovement in heating bills this winter, and this is from someone whose budget amount for gas is 42 a month all year.
When we live din FL we kept the AC at 80 and it still felt frigid in the condo. When you stepped outside, though, the humidity was just awful!! WE moved to WI to retire because of heat like we are suffering now.
My husband was in Hayward this morning and said they really got slammed by the storms again last night. If this stuff keeps up there won't be any trees left in WI.
Yeah, 78 is what we set ours at and it was plenty cold for the A/C in FL, but the ductwork is different there, as it's designed to efficiently cool and not neat a house.
Our house in MN is new and it is somewhat designed for cooling with air returns near the ceiling.
$42? - !?!? Are you serious? SOOOooo jealous. Considering our heating bills in the Winter, I don't know if that would cover us for a *weekly* budget amount.
Hope the rest of your project finishes up smoothly.
of course, so does the fact that kids don't know how to turn off lights, and the computers that run constantly.
which of course puts our electric bill at the opposite end of that spectrum at $250 a month.
which is why all the lighting in the family room is being replaced with ultra high efficiency led can lighting while the ceiling is down, since that part of the house is one of the biggest heat generators we have.
A minor help for energy, but so easy everyone should do it.
If you have an exhaust fan in your bathrooms, change out the standard light switch operating it for a spring-based timer dial switch. Most in stores are 60 minute timers, but I'd install a 30 minute or even 15 if you can find it. Fan motors eat up a ton of juice and putting them on a timer means they will not be left running all day when you go to work. They usually cost about $10.
There are electronic timer switches with pretty LED lights on them, but the idea of paying $30 - $60 for a switch that still needs electricity to operate is really thick if you are trying to save energy.
Infrared 'Sensor' switches can also save juice in the bathroom by only turning on when someone is in there, but they need to come down a lot in price before I buy one.
I spent this past week with my family next to a lake. Very hot, but at least there was a lake to jump into.
Grey Wolf, I live in one of those old houses with both a screened front porch and an upstairs screened "sleeping porch" at the rear of the house. I love my sleeping porch!
From what I see on the news, I'm glad to be 100 miles north of you guys!! Would hate to be driving in that mess you had yesterday!! However, mother nature just hung around and we are getting it today!! Dark as a dungeon out there and wind and rain pounding us good.
This is only the 2nd time in history that the Storm Prediction Center issued a high-risk warning more than 24 hours in advance. The last time was in 2006 when we had that large number of tornadoes.
4/27/11? Scary warnings. I just hope that the NWS doesn't go too far in the other direction to warn residents of potential bad weather and make it out like a media storm instead.
Visiting my Brother's family in Kansas City this weekend, a funnel cloud popped up over the southern suburbs and hung in the air rotating for close to a half hour without touching down. We were in the northern suburbs and could not see it in the sky, but they had it going on live TV for at least 20 minutes. Eerie and awesome at the same time.
Yeah our winter was surprising non-existent this past year. I think it was to make up for the super long snowy winter the year before. our March was unbelievable. Much warmer than April.
Well our record busting heat for Friday and Saturday certainly crapped out today...it has gone down from 62 at 7am to 60 now! Yesterday AC...today a sweater!
My Aunt & Uncle live just blocks away from the zoo. The creek that flows by the Zoo has a culvert that became completely blocked due to the heavy rains, and it backed up into the Zoo and the streets. My Aunt couldn't drive to work today because the street to it was under 3 ft of water - they just got hit this morning with another big downpour and there's a line of rainstorms on the radar this afternoon heading straight at them. Not good. EVERYbody's basement is flooded, and the sump pumps and wet vacs are burning out.
Nerd? Naw... I just think that surgically implanted ethernet port at the base of your skull might not have been such a good idea, now that everything is going wi-fi...
Don't get me wrong - when the Matrix was top dog at the box office it WAS a kickass idea...
hmmmmm. house wired for gigabit ethernet. wifi backhaul is gigabit. most i get next to the access point is 100megabit or so. i think i'll take the wired for the sake of bandwidth :smile:
Plus wired is a bit more secure (unless you're not running behind some decent firewalls) and doesn't allow people to leech off your internet service (unless they break in and run a wire, but you're probably going to notice that).
Brings up an interesting question though. If you run wired, but offer wireless as a convenience for guests, can you throttle the wireless connection so it's not hogging up your bandwidth? I'd assume you could.
i've got a dedicated linux system that runs as a firewall/router/telephone pbx. yeah you can throttle it. i've never felt the need to though. it involves mucking with tcp delays so that the remote end slows down traffic to an acceptable level. as it stands if you bring your phone/ipad/laptop to our house, i give you the password and let you go to town. then i harvest your mac address and give you a permanent reservation in the dhcp table.
As much as this story on the storm is crazy I was amazed that the penthouse of the building with the dangling crane will go for 90 million bucks when it's completed. WTF!? :eek: :neutral:
It's a record high for today but it's gonna drop more than 30 degrees the next few hours. And snow. Reminds me of all the deaths surrounding the great Armistice day storm that killed so many when a situation like this happened where many were caught without proper attire and died in the woods from hypothermia. At least we can see the cold front coming well in advance nowadays. Happy Minnesota Thanksgiving everyone.
What clue are we on anyway? :wink:
I usually turn it way up to 72 when she's here. :smile:
My husband was in Hayward this morning and said they really got slammed by the storms again last night. If this stuff keeps up there won't be any trees left in WI.
Our house in MN is new and it is somewhat designed for cooling with air returns near the ceiling.
Hope the rest of your project finishes up smoothly.
Saint Paul, MN
75°F
Sunny
Feels Like:75°F
Humidity: 58%
Wind: NW at 10 mph
of course, so does the fact that kids don't know how to turn off lights, and the computers that run constantly.
which of course puts our electric bill at the opposite end of that spectrum at $250 a month.
which is why all the lighting in the family room is being replaced with ultra high efficiency led can lighting while the ceiling is down, since that part of the house is one of the biggest heat generators we have.
If you have an exhaust fan in your bathrooms, change out the standard light switch operating it for a spring-based timer dial switch. Most in stores are 60 minute timers, but I'd install a 30 minute or even 15 if you can find it. Fan motors eat up a ton of juice and putting them on a timer means they will not be left running all day when you go to work. They usually cost about $10.
There are electronic timer switches with pretty LED lights on them, but the idea of paying $30 - $60 for a switch that still needs electricity to operate is really thick if you are trying to save energy.
Infrared 'Sensor' switches can also save juice in the bathroom by only turning on when someone is in there, but they need to come down a lot in price before I buy one.
Grey Wolf, I live in one of those old houses with both a screened front porch and an upstairs screened "sleeping porch" at the rear of the house. I love my sleeping porch!
New York City orders the evacuation of a quarter million people amid frenzied preprations for Hurricane Irene
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S2581465.shtml?cat=1
This is only the 2nd time in history that the Storm Prediction Center issued a high-risk warning more than 24 hours in advance. The last time was in 2006 when we had that large number of tornadoes.
Saint Paul, MN
92°F
Sunny
Feels Like:89°F
Humidity: 23%
Wind: S at 19 mph
:cool:
My Aunt & Uncle live just blocks away from the zoo. The creek that flows by the Zoo has a culvert that became completely blocked due to the heavy rains, and it backed up into the Zoo and the streets. My Aunt couldn't drive to work today because the street to it was under 3 ft of water - they just got hit this morning with another big downpour and there's a line of rainstorms on the radar this afternoon heading straight at them. Not good. EVERYbody's basement is flooded, and the sump pumps and wet vacs are burning out.
Here are a few:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150930596779121&set=a.153791524120.111572.100298764120&type=1&ref=nf
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150975646474814&set=a.10150262707714814.341141.763969813&type=1&ref=nf
Lester Park 7 bridges: https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/599000_3526157832287_1541966773_n.jpg
https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/603049_10151871451975457_1406996679_n.jpg
Vermilion Rd. https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/550830_10151823038050142_823325277_n.jpg
the nerd in me will now go home :smile:
It's a KARE11 photo. Maybe they used a stock picture instead of driving up there. :sillygrin: The sign says "St. Marie Street" or something like that.
Ares? A nerd? NO! :eek:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=404437389592325&set=a.194778667224866.37291.188484644520935&type=1&ref=nf
Here's another. Looks like the bridge didn't survive:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/206173_10150894965733596_1070254125_n.jpg
never. who'da thunkit?
Don't get me wrong - when the Matrix was top dog at the box office it WAS a kickass idea...
Brings up an interesting question though. If you run wired, but offer wireless as a convenience for guests, can you throttle the wireless connection so it's not hogging up your bandwidth? I'd assume you could.
As much as this story on the storm is crazy I was amazed that the penthouse of the building with the dangling crane will go for 90 million bucks when it's completed. WTF!? :eek: :neutral: