It's midnight as I type.......I'm looking down at the weather board in the corner of my screen and all I can do it sigh. The temperature is -20 degrees Fahrenheit. Tomorrow the high- the HIGH - is predicted to be -13 degrees Fahrenheit.
A quick bit of math.......water freezes at 32F, so lets call that "freezing." I am sitting at 52 degrees BELOW FREEZING! Let's go the other way. Think of the difference between "freezing" and 84 degrees. Quite a big difference, isn't it? Well I'm that big of a difference the other way.
Normally I wouldn't complain. But now I'm a homeowner. I returned from Christmas vacation to a frozen and broken water pump and a cracked water line. After getting that fixed, my kitchen sink drain froze. After fixing that my guest bathtub drain froze. I am ignoring that for now, because shortly after that the water line to my kitchen sink froze. Oh and the overflow on my water tank froze, so I didn't get my biweekly water delivery. So like I said, normally I wouldn't complain............ It's just I haven't seen a temperature above -5F since I got back to Bethel on Dec 28th. Oh, and by the way, all these temps are without wind chill, which has dropped the temps to -40F or worse.
On the plus side, I'm learned a lot about plumbing, space heaters, spray insulation, copper and PVC pipe repair, and more. I've also learned an inordinate amount about the underside of my house. I've crawled around under there so much in the last week I don't even need my headlight anymore! Okay, that's an exaggeration. I did just smack my head on an overhead beam.
Hey look.......... -21 F. Sleep well!
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UPDATE 1/12/08 1pm: -27 F. Anyone seen a good deal on a ticket to Hawaii?
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FINAL UPDATE 1/16/08 11pm +32 F. We bottomed out last week at -37F (true temp- not with wind chill) and then Monday afternoon we swung up to the positives. Ahhhhhhhhh......Heat wave!
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this just makes my bones ache with coldness. My sympathies, dear brother.
Hey can I sell you a house in Phoenix? Hang in there tough guy. Mom
i hope someday you get to live in costa rica or something...
All I can say is I am so sorry! I would never survive. I would catch the next plane home. You are a trooper. So does this mean you will be moving to Arizona sooner than planned?
Matt that is crazy you are living in that kind of weather. What an adventure. Have fun, and great memories.
Your welcome to visit and see whats going on with Ben and I on our blog. www.thewhitehorns.blogspot.com
cousin! I didn't know alaska had the internet! sorry about the cold!
Hey Matt! This is Jami Waldron if you remember me! I found your blog through Liz's (glauser/whitehorn)! How the heck are ya! I have a blog, you can link to it from liz's site. So.. are you an alaskan dentist? ;)
Hey Matt, I found your blog! . . . .It makes me cold. Ha! Don't freeze. . . if that's possible : ) Ours is:
larkinfam.blogspot.com
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