Bitter cold brings back a memory
Unbelievable. It's 15-below in my neighborhood this morning. I remember a time when I was a little kid. The temperature in Chicago that day was 16-below. We only had one car in the family and my dad took it to work, so we had to walk to school in all kinds of weather. But my mom was concerned about us little kids walking in the 16-below weather. So she made us wait until it was only 10-below.
The upshot, of course, was that I (a first grader) and my sister (then in third grade) arrived at school 90 minutes late. After I'd hung my coat up and taken my boots off, the nun who taught my grade stood me up in front of the class and loudly announced to the other students: "Look at the big baby. Everyone else got to school on time." Ah, memories of my school career...
Anyway, we're getting record lows all over the Midwest. Check it out:
Imagine the heating bills. Two young single women I know had to move out of their apartment recently after only two months because for a small 2-bedroom, they were paying over $200 a month in heating bills--and that was before the mercury plunged into the minus-double-digit region.Labels: heating bills, record low temperature, school memories
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I am just oozing money to pay my heating bill on my townhouse--even though I got new windows and a new energy-efficient heater. There is no way to efficiently heat just one floor of this three-storey house, and because there's just one of me here, that means that always at least two floors are being heated but no one is enjoying the heat. I don't believe that single people inherently are bad for the environment (as has been argued by some idiots in the past), but I do feel regretful that I use so much gas for heating in this instance.
--CC at Onely
Hey, CC, somehow I just found the email with your comment. Thanks for writing. It's funny, I've never heard it argued that single people are bad for the environment. Geez, we haven't got enough stigmas to live with...
Look at what you invested to reduce your carbon footprint. Good for you. I bet not many folks go that far.
When I took the garbage out the other day I was appalled to see that both the buildings of our condo have developed massive ropes of ice cascading down the walls and onto the sidewalk. All, apparently, because we have a flat roof that probably has no insulation. So we'll have to be looking into investing here, too.
Happy winter to us all.
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