Hello Kurt!

** On Sunday 22.11.20 - 11:33, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> Hydro went out at 7am. It is now almost 10am. Would be nice to have
 AA>> some hot water.

 KW>  By "Hydro", do you mean the water supply or just hot water?

Hydro is the short-form we use to mean hyro electric power.   
The main company that produces and oversees distribution is  
called Hydro Canada. They are also involved in the various  
nuclear powered facilities all over the country, but we still  
refer to the lack of electric power as "no hydro".


 KW>  If you've got fresh snowfall coming and a camp stove, you could make
 KW>  it work. Where there's a will, there's a way.   :)

How would fresh snowfall help - oh, you mean drinking water?

I have a home wood stove. Carmor(tm).   Top-loading.


 AA>> Cold coffee is getting old, fast. Power *is* present at
 AA>> my shop. I have to be there today anyway. On we go.

 KW>  At least you've got a place to charge and make coffee, then.

I did indeed.  But I didn't stick around very long. The  
downtown was quite dead - only traffic zipping through. Nobody  
was interested in shopping much today.  So, I came home after  
3 hours.

Turns out that the outtage was actually a planned outtage -  
that I forgot about.  They announced it 2 weeks ago. I can't  
rememeber a piddly little detail like that after two weeks!

I remembered that detail just before I left the house. But  
before I did that, I took the opportunity of the power outtage  
and daylight to replace a thermostat-switch that wasn't  
working. The whole house is equipped with the same model. So,   
I swapped out a good one from a room I don't use, and always  
kept handy when I could motivate myself to take off the broken  
one.

This is what I was replacing:

   http://pics.rsh.ru/img/thermostat-switch_6s43dvjt.jpg

The highest I could turn the broken one was to the 10 o-clock  
position.   I lived with that seized/broken one for 3 winters.  
Not bad.  Coldest it ever got was 11C in my main living area.

I still have same heating (base-boards) in the lower part of  
the house. Those I could crank up higher on the coldest days  
to compensate.  The heat would flow upwards through the large  
open stairwell.

My main living room (I've closed off most of the other rooms)  
is now nearly at 17C from a previous low of 12C this morning.   
Good enough.  The hydro was off only 5.5 hours this morning.

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  ../|ug

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