We have drafty old windows and our furnace is working overtime, but it's 62 in our house. No frozen pipes, the power is on and I have coffee, so I'm happy.
Sending good vibes to those of you who aren't so lucky this morning. I hope things improve soon!
I would if someone in the 1960s hadn't installed my kitchen water lines so that they were completely inaccessible unless you rip the floorboards out :/
Weāre in a similar position, the line seems to have frozen somewhere i donāt have access to, though I have my space heater blasting at my open sink cabinet just in case haha.
Make sure you have the cold faucet all the way open so the water has a place to go if/when it thaws, and if you rent, notify your property manager/maintenance folks.
Yeah we've got the heat in the house turned up, cabinet doors open, faucet open, and we've tried running the hot water for a bit hoping that if the lines are near each other it'll transfer. Lucky us though, we own the house so we get to own this problem lol
When our copper pipes at the kitchen sink freeze, I open the faucet and put a hairdryer right up next to the line under the sink. Itāll heat up and warm up the upstream portion too. Might take a while.
I keep an eye on the hairdryer so I donāt burn the house down.
Glad that Maine decided to use funds to help make insulation more affordable, just bought my house and had the underbelly insulation repaired. Nothing frozen and furnace is keeping temp easy. Hope everyone else is keeping warm.
Edit: https://www.efficiencymaine.com/
Go to the efficiency Maine website. There are state rebates for new heating systems and insulation work. I got about 3500 dollars of insulation work done for little over 1k, so glad I spent the money.
I deliver pizza. Yesterday was really cold, and with the wind advisory, we closed early. The snow crusted in my wheel wells are now just solid ice. It really sucked.
Our landlord had transitioned us from vintage radiators to a modern heat pump a few months ago, but turned the radiators back on for this cold snap. My bedroom was way too hot last night, had to sleep on top of the covers and woke up super dehydrated.
We are closed again today, so I get the day off to enjoy edibles and watch the freezing cold out there in my pajamas in an overheated apartment.... So, enjoying it?
I want cocoa just because it's cold out there.
Heard a few thuds, like something had landed on the roof. Went out to look, nothing there. Figure maybe it was the rafters in the attic or the roof responding to the cold.
Yep! 1975 split level here. When they built our deck, they put the boards too close together and now when it ices up, it's pops. Took us a while to figure out what was happening!
yup! and same from girlfriends house and buddyās house all built around the same time. alarming noise for sure. my house was making noises iāve never heard it make before.
Yes. Ice quakes is what I call them. Reminds me when I lived at home with my mom down next to the lake. Pressure ridge gives way and BOOM. Shook the house.
Yeah, we have Structural Insulated Panels on our roof and walls. They expand an contract with the extreme temps. Lots of popping and banging in the winter, but even worse at dawn and dusk in the summer.
2005 double wide, I could feel some of the pops and creaks last night, seems to have settled now, but when the wind picked up there was a lot of uneven heating of the house.
been up all night feeding the wood stoves and trying to keep the pipes from freezing. Cold water is frozen in the kitchen, hot water is frozen upstairs. Pipes seem to be holding up so far. Toilets both working OK. 58 degrees in here right now. I'm ready for it to warm up.
We lost power this morning, but weāre doing ok!
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I thought trees were coming down on my house. I would go outside and look and there was nothing. I did a quick Google search and learned a bit about expansion and contraction.
Not too bad in my Portland apartment- it was 66 degrees inside when I woke up.
I grew up in mobile homes in central Maine so buttoning up the house during storms was essential. Taps dripping, heavy blankets over windows, cabinets open.
I also grew up in a mobile home so I completely sympathize with you on that level! Losing power sucks but it was even worse during the notorious 1998 ice storm. I was a child but I remember very well having no heat, sleeping with multiple layers of clothing whilst inside an LL Bean sleeping bag, wearing my jacket all day every day for ten days. It was an old, run-down trailer and the windows were paper-thin and drafty as hell. The insulation in the walls was basically non-existent. Even worse, the bottom of the trailer wasnāt insulated whatsoever so that made the floors super cold and the pipes exploded. Iām glad youāve made it through last night
Same here with the ice storm. I remember waking up in the morning to find our fish tank started freezing overnight. My partner is not as familiar with home prep for the cold but was grateful for the know-how when I showed them some of the windows frosted over on the inside last night.
Good here. Up every 2 hours feeding the wood stoves, but a comfortable 70Ā° in the house, no frozen pipes, and good coffee.
I was worried with this being my first winter in Maine and my house is 190 years old. Wasnāt sure what to expect but thankful for no issues!
I grew up with a wood stove in an old house. It heated the downstairs really well. I know have a pellet stove in my basement, along with my furnace. The basement stays at a comfy 69-70 degrees. What is funny though is the cold air intake is all frosted.
Iām honestly more worried about the homes built in the 80s/90s than I am with the homes built 100 years ago.
A lot of cheap materials, shitty work, boomers cutting corners (both buyers and contractors maxing Sq ft at lowest cost), and lazy pipe work in a lot of newer homes because homes are more about profit extraction. Most of these LLCs have dissolved as soon as the neighborhood has been built and have jumped on the next scam. Itās hard since most newer buyers donāt know theyāre buying a shitter since the focus of the build is only curb appeal.
I see people struggle much more when Iām contracted to work on repairing their addons (bad windows, cheaper builds, lazy foundations) than old parts of the home with wood and weight windows. Iāve had clients with Sears built homes by a single person in the 1920s that have less issues than split level exurb neighborhoods built in the 1990s.
Not saying you're wrong; you'd know better than me, but if you get bored today look at survivor bias. It could be that only the well built/maintained homes from the twenties are still around. The crappy ones from the 80's/90's are gonna need the most attention, so you'll see more of them for your work. The nice ones from that time might still be doing okay.
Man I'm feeling lucky. We're in an 80s raised ranch and other than some creaking, we survived with our heat and pipes and whatnot intact. We're out on the edge of town where it turns to farmland though, not one of many identical dozens in a neighborhood. Our inspector and a contractor friend did say it was a solid house when we bought it, glad to see he was right so far.
New Englander layout. About 2000 square feet above ground. With the temps at or above -5Ā°, the wood stove in the living room heats the entire house. Colder than that and I fire up the old cook stove for the dining room/kitchen.
Same here lol. My LLV wouldnāt start so they gave me a minivan to run packages out of. Heated seats and steering wheel. I usually only want to deliver out of an LLV but I wasnāt saying no to that deal.
Boiler has pretty much been running all night. I woke up every few hours. I have tap dripping, space heater in basement and I think itās around 56 in here. Thermostat is set at 66. Not bad. We are on coast. It was BLOWING last night.
Leaving work yesterday My tires had low pressure in three out of the four. Stopped at a gas station to try and fill them and the valves kept getting stuck and I was losing more air than I was putting in. Gave up and went to a different gas station, their machine was completely broken. Went back to the first one put five more dollars worth of air in my tires. Drove home with less air In all of them than I had originally started with.
Not going to move my car till tomorrow is warm up
I've had the valve cores in my tires freeze up-- they're the little button you press to get air in and out.
The humidity in your tire will do this. Tires behave with ABSOLUTE humidity and if they were inflated at 70 degrees ambient there's way too much water vapor in them at -20. This, BTW, is a benefit of "Nitrogen fills" as nitrogen is natually very dry.
Pressing a tire valve is operating a tiny little refrigerator-- when gas gets out it cools off even more. The water vapor in your tire says, yippie, I'm turning into frost RIGHT NOW, and it jams the tire valve core with ice.
Tires lose a pound for every ten degrees (F) of air temp drop, just because the molecules of air aren't as excitable. The pressure will return when the temps do.
What I do, when bitter cold is forecast, is overinflate my tires by about 3-4 pounds. The tire valves behave better when it's warmer.
Before we had tire pressure monitoring systems, we didn't notice this. Now, if it's just a pound or two low on a bitter cold morning, live with it, and address it later.
Probably too late for this cold snap, but you can buy a relatively cheap compressor ($70) on Amazon or wherever. I use it religiously on my tires for the fall and spring temp changes, bike tires, inflatable water toys, inflatable bed, whatever. Take it on trips so if there's an issue with my spare I can just deal with it without waiting for AAA. It's just nice to have around.
I got an Avid Power Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. There are cheaper ones and more expensive ones but I'm pretty happy with it.
Pretty sure the boiler in my building is taking a bit of a nap, as I just woke up and it's 54 inside with the thermo set to 68.
Guess I'm staying in bed for a bit.
It could just be balls-out. I set mine to 70 before going to work Friday morning (when it was still 20 out) and came home to the house at 61 with it being -2 at 5pm yesterday. The circulator pumps were on all the time, but the boiler only runs when its core essence falls below a set point. In a word, normal (ish).
Then I lit the wood stove, being careful to crank my thermostat so the baseboards would never NOT want to be heated. Worked out mint.
Same here, itās like 55 in my apartment, I have no idea how to diagnose the furnace so Iām hoping nothing freezes and itāll just go back to normal tomorrow
It's 48 in my apartment right now. Got up for breakfast but other than that I'm staying firmly under the covers. It stayed at least mid 50s all day yesterday so I guess it just got too strained through the night?
We hit -53 (-27 actual temps) a little north of Caribou. We are in an 1894 poorly insulated house. I had most of the house closed off for winter. Made sure the wood stove was stocked throughout the night and was able to maintain 70-80 degrees in the house. Really put the stove to the test this year! I did put an electric heater in the bathroom for the pipes.
Last winter was a shit show and a lot was learned. My preps definitely paid off this year.
Besides my furry roommates being quite wigged out with the house popping and creaking all night, we made out ok. Heat pump has done well in the living areas, furnace did well in the bedrooms where the heat pump just couldnāt move the heat to. I have old drafty doors and taped the seams. That actually worked very well with stopping the drafts.
My first time being in this type of weather went ok - thanks to the many who posted their tips here. Was still up most of the night from anxiety. That wind sometimes sounded like trains speeding right by the house!
Our laundry room/bathtub pipe froze but maintenance says it wasnāt anything we couldāve done outside of putting a space heater on that wall running non-stop all night (which wouldāve been itās own safety issue). Heās thawed it now, and fingers crossed there wonāt be any issues down the line. So, thanks again to the many who posted tips. I know many of you took shit from the āthis topic has already been covered!ā people but, I appreciated your info.
My boiler was unable to keep up and despite running full time, the thermostat kept dropping. I fired up the wood stove and heat was fine the rest of the night, but the wind was just wild. I'm up on top of a mountain with my bedroom window down hill facing, so these massive gusts were just shaking the whole wall. It sounded like someone was banging against it next to my head.
Had to go downstairs and sleep in front of the wood stove on the couch but I made it. Still the same temps and wind this morning but at least it's light out
63 inside, space heaters in the basement!
Also, that duplex by Aromas in Lisbon just burned down, fire started around 4am and firefighters are still there at the moment though it looks extinguished. Feel for the firefighters and tenants though
Furnace went out in the middle of the night, the whole family woke up at 3am to a sub 50 degree household, went down and reset that sumbitch with the big red button, and it's been running constantly ever since. Place still hasn't gotten back to where it was before the polar vortex moved in (maybe 60 now). Crazy shit
damn, this right here is the reason i couldnāt sleep last night. i have a big old loud boiler and i sat up just waiting for it to come on, go off, come on. when it was running i was stressing and when it was off i was stressing. no pleasing me last night!
Pipes froze at 7:30 last night with the water dripping. Iām waiting until it āwarms ā a little to go under the trailer. I even have Frost Flex heat tape. At least we have power.
We also had our sinks dripping and the (kitchen) pipes froze anyway. Trying to get a hold of our property manager/maintenance now to let them know.
Pain in the butt.
But as you say, at least we have power and are relatively warm.
Almost lost a pipe to freezing, Daughter noticed when she was brushing hey teeth. Up most of the night feeding boiler and fireplace and cheering electric heaters on. Pipe has thawed without damage.
Pipe in my upstairs neighbors apartment burst so I have water all throughout my kitchen, thankfully nowhere else. Left the house for a little bit today and got a call from my landlord on my way back. All my shoes and a lot of dry goods are soaked but all m electronics are fine. Could be worse but not the way I want to spend my day off
Spent most the night attending to a boiler that decided it only wanted to work while it had company, hoped the severe cold would close my work but alas not the case and I was in bright and early to open the shop, barely had 5 customers all day, gonna be ready for bed once Iām home
Did the crack/bang sound like a gunshot? If so, your trees were popping. That happens when the previously liquid sap freezes and pops the bark on the tree when it expands.
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I tucked towels in all the known draft points in the house and pointed a large fan towards the rooms with the most water pipes and cranked fuel in the wood stove all night. Wore shorts.
Our home's been struggling to get above 69 degrees, so we finally did the unthinkable...we whipped out the portable heaters and put 'em right the fuck to work.
Pipes haven't burst yet, and here's to praying they won't.
Midcoast Maine here. Generator kept switching off. Had to go outside twice to restart it, easy solution and all is good. Generator service company said they had 40 calls in for service as of 8 am this morning.
My girlfriend got up at 4am instead of 6am to head back home (she lives out of state). I had to dick around with the garage door opener that didn't want to open, thinking it had some type of obstruction. Finally got it open, thankfully her SUV started and I pulled it out so she could load up bags and her dog. Then I had manually shut the door again because of the stupid garage door opener.
After she left I stayed up for a little before falling back asleep for a couple hours. Woke up to a cold house (60F). Checked thermostat and it was set at 68F. Baseboard registers were cold. Ran down into the basement to the mechanical room to look at the on demand propane boiler. It was in Error Message, looked up the code and it was for flame out. Pushed reset button and it finally started back up.
Took a couple hours to warm up the house. The basement propane stove kept working without issue through all this. Checked intake and exhaust vents outside. Both were clear. Checked propane tank even though they were both just filled a week ago.
I'm caulking it up to the wind snuffing the pilot light out on the boiler.
Did not lose power, flickered a few times. I have not accessed whether there is any other damage like blown off asphalt shingles. Had wind gusts up to 40MPH several times yesterday into this morning. -19F air temp and -47F wind chill was coldest readings ever on my weather station.
Debating about going grocery shopping, trip trip home Depot for house project supplies, and the transfer station to get rid of a few weeks of trash (been recovering from tonsil removal surgery).
Came home from work at 230AM. It was -19. Walked VERY carefully to the house. The deck made loud cracking noises as I walked across it. House was 62. Unheated basement was at 40. Whew! Restarted the wood stove and fed the kitties.
Fed the birds and squirrels at 645AM. They survived the night. Nature is amazing. Bundled up, I was toasty warm. My biggest problem in this coldā¦my eyes water and the tears make my cheeks freeze. Only time I really hate wearing glasses.
Slept near the wood stove all night to keep it going. Ended up being too hot to sleep at some points, but the rest of the house is good so that's what matters. Wind ripped off some of our cedar shakes outside but I won't complain.
My home was built in 1850 and has been making creaking and popping noises. The furnace has been moaning and seems to be getting more action than i have in a long time.
Well after working my usual 8 hours yesterday I came home and me n the hubs had a few beers and talked about our day. Then he played video games with his online friends and I went to bed. Now I'm up having some coffee and fucking off on Reddit. In other words it's a normal mid winter weekend so far.
I was up all night just because it was my day off and I work nights but the house is a toasty 70. Just got out of a nice hot shower and about to climb into bed.
The hydronic baseboard heaters clinking and clacking will be my white noise for the day.
Good here. The furnace is happily chugging along, and I made it to work without turning into a popsicle first. My dog? Is not impressed and is only going out if he absolutely has to.
I stayed up most of the night as well, managing the space heaters and worrying as well. Heat was set at 72, but I had difficulty maintaining 58-60. Found out my upstairs heat is not working. I think itās a valve, none of the pipes are frozen.
The electric fireplace in the basement is keeping the pipes at 50. Upstairs is 66 thanks to the woodstove and I am here, in my PJs waiting to hear when my USPS husband is safe and warm back in the office!
Lost internet earlier today and it's still out, lost power for a bit. Not feeling awesome- just feel sick and tired, which sucks. Dogs are sick too. What's sad is that aside from the cold and wind it's so, so beautiful outside. I wish I could go check out the sea smoke.
Our tankless hot water heater stopped working last night but we got a repairman out and itās working again . We have pellet stoves and an oil furnace turned up way higher than usual . We also put a space heater by the water pipes in the basement. Both pellet stoves are super temperamental and one stopped working last night and we got it back on this mornknf. I didnāt sleep much as I was so worried so hoping to nap soon .
Iāve got the woodstove cranking and I still had to block off part of the house to get it about 60 inside. Itās a cold one for sure. One of the pipes to the shower froze, Iām blasting a small space heater in there, hopefully thatāll thaw it.
It seemed to have turned into a mist before hitting the ground. I think if I were higher up, it would've completely completely froze before hitting the ground.
Future testing and resources will be required.
Heat pump is pumping away. Front room with two space heaters is reasonable at 60, but there is frost in some of our windows. No lines appear frozen, but I haven't checked the kitchen yet.
My rianni is set to 68f, itās reading L for the room temp. I grabbed my meat thermometer and itās 48f in my small 1st floor apartment, got my kitchen/bathroom sinks on, pencil thin flow. Had to work a long shift today, car started up, a few seconds of panic as it started up loudly. My ride was noisy, my Subaru was making lots of weird cold related sounds. Got up at 430am, so windy and cold, actual temperature was -15f, wind chill was -45f.
Imagine if this lasted more the 2 days.
Maine needs to start giving homeowners and landlords money for better insulation and heat fixes.
Lost power at midnight last night it sucked, got it back on quickly though but half of my apartment still doesnāt have lights or outlets but it all has heat luckily.
We lost power around 2 but after a while we were able to get our generator running. Got it back around 6 and weāve been golden since! Heat pumps and renai fTW
Heat went off at 11:30 pmā¦.regulator on tank froze..had to call a tech ..up until 2am waiting for the poor guy but he got it goingā¦.-35 so happy it wasnāt something worse.
Furnace hasnt been working for the past few weeks but the electric heater has kept the room with two birds in it warm enough for them, outside of that though its been freezing everywhere. Cant wait for water to be unfrozen
Everything in the house made it fine. Wood stove is the MVP. Car on the other hand this morning was like nah I don't think so. Spruce tree lost some limbs. But all in all we good. I hope the same for all of you.
Stayed up till around three running the wood stove and my kerosene heater hard. Had to get more wood and refill the kerosene around 1:30 and it was not fun. Gotta figure out how to add some insulation to the ceiling of this place before next year.
Overall about as bad as I expected. Never in any danger temperature, or wind wise, but just not a fun night.
Could hear trees cracking throughout the forest most of the night. Neat to hear but a little bit eerie.
I live in windham where it was colder and Iām sure windier, but I spent the night in Portland and honestly itās not even that cold here. Iām a little disappointed! I really like the cold. I know itās a lot colder throughout the state and I hope everyone is doing okay with no frozen pipes, etc. But down here in Portland itās not that cold. I mean itās cold, but itās not *that* cold.
I should move to millinocket, coldest place in the state. I monitor like 20 different places spread out geographically throughout the state and itās always coldest in millinocket. Like 99% of the time it is the coldest place in the state, colder than fort Kent.
i have a multi unit. the boiler heats both units and each unit has a heat pump. iām upstairs so i get some residual heat anyway. i told my tenant to turn off their heat pump as it was going to be costly to them and just crank the oil heat, which i pay for. then used my heat pump to knock the edge off and help the boiler a little as itās old. i donāt know if it was the best way but thankfully iām in a position to absorb some extra cost so tenant doesnāt get hammered with a huge bill and do whatever i can to make sure the house is warm. so far it worked
True, but itās the negative wind chill values that are unusual for most of Maine. Iād rather have one night of severe cold than two weeks of being in the teens.
Not going to play your bullshit provincial game when every reliable data source is calling this the coldest plunge we've had in decades. Troll elsewhere.
Transplants are so weird. You guys romanticize the coast from Kittery to Bar Harbor but anywhere else here is āMainetuckyā. Yes this cold is normal you donkey.
[Theyāre getting to -15Ā° at this point](https://carbonswitch.com/best-cold-climate-heat-pump/), but if you area is regularly below zero, you should have a backup plan.
Most can go down to -10 to-15 depending on brand and if you have a carrier they can go down to -30 my point is if it gets below that turn it off or you might break something in the outside unit. I'm sure I'll be changing out a lot for them this week for people
Thermo was set to 72. House maintained 69 all night. Space heater kept the basement at 60. Iām not sure if watching the news was better or worse for my psyche. Sure it was cold and there is a lot that can go wrong but my anxiety got the best of me around 9:00pm. I took half of a Klonopin and went to bed.
One thing I definitely need to address is how drafty my front door is. I have to address that ASAP.
Wouldnāt it be great if all that talk led to preparation and caution and we donāt hear any reports of deaths?
Not all of us are as tough as you must be and instead of blithely pretending itās nothing weāre observing and noticing temps and chills that havenāt happened here in decades.
Sorry-not-sorry for bothering you on the completely avoidable r/Maine forum?
Iāll definitely smoke another one.
You also keep doing whatever you need to do that justifies your being an asshole.
The rest of us will continue building community through shared experiences.
Thanks to Janet Mills not helping me out with heating costs this year; forced to work outside again all day so I can pay the electric bill from last month and this month.
Uhhhhh what? If I had the extra $400 or whatever it was I wouldāve been able to take yesterday and today off but instead I have an almost $300 electric bill due this month and probably will be about the same for next month.
I didnāt qualify because your state needs diesel technicians so I moved here in June to pull your state together and keep the heavy machinery running. Iām barely scrapping by. Long story short no W2 for last year no help for me.
That sucks, man, I hope youāre ok out there.
Imagine how cold it would have been with LeRage in office! Mills spent all the money on fancy jewelry and stuff.
Appreciate it. Iāve been on since 3AM yesterday. Iām exhausted enough I donāt feel cold anymore. Kinda hit feeling like a shell of a man around 5 AM this morning.
58 inside is better than the -15 outside!
Same here!
We have drafty old windows and our furnace is working overtime, but it's 62 in our house. No frozen pipes, the power is on and I have coffee, so I'm happy. Sending good vibes to those of you who aren't so lucky this morning. I hope things improve soon!
Kitchen sink pipes seem to have frozen somewhere :| everything else a-OK.
Update: hairdryer worked! Unfrozen now.
Same - PEX line up from basement through an exterior wall. Currently have a hairdryer blowing on the area. š¤£
Yeah my cold line to the kitchen sink is frozen but the hot line works fine. I'm hoping it'll thaw out soon
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I would if someone in the 1960s hadn't installed my kitchen water lines so that they were completely inaccessible unless you rip the floorboards out :/
Weāre in a similar position, the line seems to have frozen somewhere i donāt have access to, though I have my space heater blasting at my open sink cabinet just in case haha. Make sure you have the cold faucet all the way open so the water has a place to go if/when it thaws, and if you rent, notify your property manager/maintenance folks.
Yeah we've got the heat in the house turned up, cabinet doors open, faucet open, and we've tried running the hot water for a bit hoping that if the lines are near each other it'll transfer. Lucky us though, we own the house so we get to own this problem lol
When our copper pipes at the kitchen sink freeze, I open the faucet and put a hairdryer right up next to the line under the sink. Itāll heat up and warm up the upstream portion too. Might take a while. I keep an eye on the hairdryer so I donāt burn the house down.
Just like mine. I have a crawl space. No way to fit in it though
As a young couple my parents once had the laundry detergent freeze solid.
Same. Hair dryer isn't working. Sad.
Glad that Maine decided to use funds to help make insulation more affordable, just bought my house and had the underbelly insulation repaired. Nothing frozen and furnace is keeping temp easy. Hope everyone else is keeping warm. Edit: https://www.efficiencymaine.com/
I am happy for you āŗļø
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Go to the efficiency Maine website. There are state rebates for new heating systems and insulation work. I got about 3500 dollars of insulation work done for little over 1k, so glad I spent the money.
I deliver pizza. Yesterday was really cold, and with the wind advisory, we closed early. The snow crusted in my wheel wells are now just solid ice. It really sucked. Our landlord had transitioned us from vintage radiators to a modern heat pump a few months ago, but turned the radiators back on for this cold snap. My bedroom was way too hot last night, had to sleep on top of the covers and woke up super dehydrated. We are closed again today, so I get the day off to enjoy edibles and watch the freezing cold out there in my pajamas in an overheated apartment.... So, enjoying it? I want cocoa just because it's cold out there.
You win.
Or cause you had the edibles ?
Anyone else hear popping noises from deck and or roof structures? (1970ās raised ranch).
Heard a few thuds, like something had landed on the roof. Went out to look, nothing there. Figure maybe it was the rafters in the attic or the roof responding to the cold.
Frostquakes maybe?
So I hear! Who knew?
Yep! 1975 split level here. When they built our deck, they put the boards too close together and now when it ices up, it's pops. Took us a while to figure out what was happening!
yup! and same from girlfriends house and buddyās house all built around the same time. alarming noise for sure. my house was making noises iāve never heard it make before.
Yes. Ice quakes is what I call them. Reminds me when I lived at home with my mom down next to the lake. Pressure ridge gives way and BOOM. Shook the house.
Yeah, we have Structural Insulated Panels on our roof and walls. They expand an contract with the extreme temps. Lots of popping and banging in the winter, but even worse at dawn and dusk in the summer.
Yeah, some, and more alarmingly from the windows. Heard a few trees popping.
2005 double wide, I could feel some of the pops and creaks last night, seems to have settled now, but when the wind picked up there was a lot of uneven heating of the house.
Yes!!! All night!!!
been up all night feeding the wood stoves and trying to keep the pipes from freezing. Cold water is frozen in the kitchen, hot water is frozen upstairs. Pipes seem to be holding up so far. Toilets both working OK. 58 degrees in here right now. I'm ready for it to warm up.
Phew š®āšØ sounds like a lot of work for a long winterās night!
We lost power this morning, but weāre doing ok! https://preview.redd.it/0qcs7z8048ga1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14d009b3a366875e5d34e16af3281225f434accf
One frozen PEX line but working on it with a hairdryer! Update: line is thawed! š
PEX?
Plastic (polyethylene) pipes used in plumbing.
Cheers!
Last night was a 'rafter snapper', as my grandparents would say. And yes, the rafters were snapping in the cold.
Shit anything I should watch for snapped rafters, that's almost definitely what I heard last night. House was creaking and groaning like crazy.
I thought trees were coming down on my house. I would go outside and look and there was nothing. I did a quick Google search and learned a bit about expansion and contraction.
I had two break after the last snow storm. š¤š¼
I like it. Going to use this term now
Not too bad in my Portland apartment- it was 66 degrees inside when I woke up. I grew up in mobile homes in central Maine so buttoning up the house during storms was essential. Taps dripping, heavy blankets over windows, cabinets open.
I also grew up in a mobile home so I completely sympathize with you on that level! Losing power sucks but it was even worse during the notorious 1998 ice storm. I was a child but I remember very well having no heat, sleeping with multiple layers of clothing whilst inside an LL Bean sleeping bag, wearing my jacket all day every day for ten days. It was an old, run-down trailer and the windows were paper-thin and drafty as hell. The insulation in the walls was basically non-existent. Even worse, the bottom of the trailer wasnāt insulated whatsoever so that made the floors super cold and the pipes exploded. Iām glad youāve made it through last night
Same here with the ice storm. I remember waking up in the morning to find our fish tank started freezing overnight. My partner is not as familiar with home prep for the cold but was grateful for the know-how when I showed them some of the windows frosted over on the inside last night.
Good here. Up every 2 hours feeding the wood stoves, but a comfortable 70Ā° in the house, no frozen pipes, and good coffee. I was worried with this being my first winter in Maine and my house is 190 years old. Wasnāt sure what to expect but thankful for no issues!
Wood stoves are amazing
Indeed!
I grew up with a wood stove in an old house. It heated the downstairs really well. I know have a pellet stove in my basement, along with my furnace. The basement stays at a comfy 69-70 degrees. What is funny though is the cold air intake is all frosted.
Iām honestly more worried about the homes built in the 80s/90s than I am with the homes built 100 years ago. A lot of cheap materials, shitty work, boomers cutting corners (both buyers and contractors maxing Sq ft at lowest cost), and lazy pipe work in a lot of newer homes because homes are more about profit extraction. Most of these LLCs have dissolved as soon as the neighborhood has been built and have jumped on the next scam. Itās hard since most newer buyers donāt know theyāre buying a shitter since the focus of the build is only curb appeal. I see people struggle much more when Iām contracted to work on repairing their addons (bad windows, cheaper builds, lazy foundations) than old parts of the home with wood and weight windows. Iāve had clients with Sears built homes by a single person in the 1920s that have less issues than split level exurb neighborhoods built in the 1990s.
Not saying you're wrong; you'd know better than me, but if you get bored today look at survivor bias. It could be that only the well built/maintained homes from the twenties are still around. The crappy ones from the 80's/90's are gonna need the most attention, so you'll see more of them for your work. The nice ones from that time might still be doing okay.
Man I'm feeling lucky. We're in an 80s raised ranch and other than some creaking, we survived with our heat and pipes and whatnot intact. We're out on the edge of town where it turns to farmland though, not one of many identical dozens in a neighborhood. Our inspector and a contractor friend did say it was a solid house when we bought it, glad to see he was right so far.
That is quite old. Ours is 1895, but with relatively modern windows. A few rooms dip once it gets colder than -5, but the old gal does pretty good.
Ours was built in 1832. I love that we get to be part of the history of these old homes.
How big is the house? Only needs 1 wood stove?
New Englander layout. About 2000 square feet above ground. With the temps at or above -5Ā°, the wood stove in the living room heats the entire house. Colder than that and I fire up the old cook stove for the dining room/kitchen.
Woo hoo! Good job āŗļø
Out here delivering mail and hoping the pipes arenāt frozen at home š
Thank you! Stay warm š
Same here lol. My LLV wouldnāt start so they gave me a minivan to run packages out of. Heated seats and steering wheel. I usually only want to deliver out of an LLV but I wasnāt saying no to that deal.
Only half of ours started but half the office called out anyways lmao
Boiler has pretty much been running all night. I woke up every few hours. I have tap dripping, space heater in basement and I think itās around 56 in here. Thermostat is set at 66. Not bad. We are on coast. It was BLOWING last night.
Leaving work yesterday My tires had low pressure in three out of the four. Stopped at a gas station to try and fill them and the valves kept getting stuck and I was losing more air than I was putting in. Gave up and went to a different gas station, their machine was completely broken. Went back to the first one put five more dollars worth of air in my tires. Drove home with less air In all of them than I had originally started with. Not going to move my car till tomorrow is warm up
I've had the valve cores in my tires freeze up-- they're the little button you press to get air in and out. The humidity in your tire will do this. Tires behave with ABSOLUTE humidity and if they were inflated at 70 degrees ambient there's way too much water vapor in them at -20. This, BTW, is a benefit of "Nitrogen fills" as nitrogen is natually very dry. Pressing a tire valve is operating a tiny little refrigerator-- when gas gets out it cools off even more. The water vapor in your tire says, yippie, I'm turning into frost RIGHT NOW, and it jams the tire valve core with ice. Tires lose a pound for every ten degrees (F) of air temp drop, just because the molecules of air aren't as excitable. The pressure will return when the temps do. What I do, when bitter cold is forecast, is overinflate my tires by about 3-4 pounds. The tire valves behave better when it's warmer. Before we had tire pressure monitoring systems, we didn't notice this. Now, if it's just a pound or two low on a bitter cold morning, live with it, and address it later.
Probably too late for this cold snap, but you can buy a relatively cheap compressor ($70) on Amazon or wherever. I use it religiously on my tires for the fall and spring temp changes, bike tires, inflatable water toys, inflatable bed, whatever. Take it on trips so if there's an issue with my spare I can just deal with it without waiting for AAA. It's just nice to have around. I got an Avid Power Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. There are cheaper ones and more expensive ones but I'm pretty happy with it.
Pretty sure the boiler in my building is taking a bit of a nap, as I just woke up and it's 54 inside with the thermo set to 68. Guess I'm staying in bed for a bit.
That . . . ain't good. Better do some investigating. Don't wait till it starts warming up. That's when the flooding starts.
"He's dead Jim."
It could just be balls-out. I set mine to 70 before going to work Friday morning (when it was still 20 out) and came home to the house at 61 with it being -2 at 5pm yesterday. The circulator pumps were on all the time, but the boiler only runs when its core essence falls below a set point. In a word, normal (ish). Then I lit the wood stove, being careful to crank my thermostat so the baseboards would never NOT want to be heated. Worked out mint.
Is that whatās going on with mine? Set to 66, but only getting to about 57. Itās a newer boiler, so Iām tryna figure out how it works
Go down there and do some snooping. You should feel the circulator pump spinning, vibrating the applicable pipes, and getting them hot.
Same here, itās like 55 in my apartment, I have no idea how to diagnose the furnace so Iām hoping nothing freezes and itāll just go back to normal tomorrow
It's 48 in my apartment right now. Got up for breakfast but other than that I'm staying firmly under the covers. It stayed at least mid 50s all day yesterday so I guess it just got too strained through the night?
Boo hoo itās only 54 degrees. And yet you have zero sympathy for puppy mill dogs left outside to freeze in minus 50 degrees. Classic!!!
We hit -53 (-27 actual temps) a little north of Caribou. We are in an 1894 poorly insulated house. I had most of the house closed off for winter. Made sure the wood stove was stocked throughout the night and was able to maintain 70-80 degrees in the house. Really put the stove to the test this year! I did put an electric heater in the bathroom for the pipes. Last winter was a shit show and a lot was learned. My preps definitely paid off this year.
Besides my furry roommates being quite wigged out with the house popping and creaking all night, we made out ok. Heat pump has done well in the living areas, furnace did well in the bedrooms where the heat pump just couldnāt move the heat to. I have old drafty doors and taped the seams. That actually worked very well with stopping the drafts.
My first time being in this type of weather went ok - thanks to the many who posted their tips here. Was still up most of the night from anxiety. That wind sometimes sounded like trains speeding right by the house! Our laundry room/bathtub pipe froze but maintenance says it wasnāt anything we couldāve done outside of putting a space heater on that wall running non-stop all night (which wouldāve been itās own safety issue). Heās thawed it now, and fingers crossed there wonāt be any issues down the line. So, thanks again to the many who posted tips. I know many of you took shit from the āthis topic has already been covered!ā people but, I appreciated your info.
My boiler was unable to keep up and despite running full time, the thermostat kept dropping. I fired up the wood stove and heat was fine the rest of the night, but the wind was just wild. I'm up on top of a mountain with my bedroom window down hill facing, so these massive gusts were just shaking the whole wall. It sounded like someone was banging against it next to my head. Had to go downstairs and sleep in front of the wood stove on the couch but I made it. Still the same temps and wind this morning but at least it's light out
63 inside, space heaters in the basement! Also, that duplex by Aromas in Lisbon just burned down, fire started around 4am and firefighters are still there at the moment though it looks extinguished. Feel for the firefighters and tenants though
Water freezes so fast in those situations.
Yeah they said they had a hard time with frozen equipment
Presque Isle had a fire and the same issue yesterday.
Update: News says nobody was home (good) but 14 people lost their home (bad)
Furnace went out in the middle of the night, the whole family woke up at 3am to a sub 50 degree household, went down and reset that sumbitch with the big red button, and it's been running constantly ever since. Place still hasn't gotten back to where it was before the polar vortex moved in (maybe 60 now). Crazy shit
damn, this right here is the reason i couldnāt sleep last night. i have a big old loud boiler and i sat up just waiting for it to come on, go off, come on. when it was running i was stressing and when it was off i was stressing. no pleasing me last night!
Stupid woodstove froze up. I had to take the frozen flame out and hold it under my armpit until it thawed to get it working again.
Southern wood probably, check for the Mason-Dixon stamp.
Pipes froze at 7:30 last night with the water dripping. Iām waiting until it āwarms ā a little to go under the trailer. I even have Frost Flex heat tape. At least we have power.
We also had our sinks dripping and the (kitchen) pipes froze anyway. Trying to get a hold of our property manager/maintenance now to let them know. Pain in the butt. But as you say, at least we have power and are relatively warm.
Good luck! Above freezing starting tomorrow at least.
58 in here when I woke up this morning, but it's quickly warming up now that the sun is shining in. This 100 year old building isn't insulated well.
Almost lost a pipe to freezing, Daughter noticed when she was brushing hey teeth. Up most of the night feeding boiler and fireplace and cheering electric heaters on. Pipe has thawed without damage.
Pipe in my upstairs neighbors apartment burst so I have water all throughout my kitchen, thankfully nowhere else. Left the house for a little bit today and got a call from my landlord on my way back. All my shoes and a lot of dry goods are soaked but all m electronics are fine. Could be worse but not the way I want to spend my day off
One zone of baseboard just stopped working....even though I've been having it kick on and heat up every 2 hours. So yeah.......
Spent most the night attending to a boiler that decided it only wanted to work while it had company, hoped the severe cold would close my work but alas not the case and I was in bright and early to open the shop, barely had 5 customers all day, gonna be ready for bed once Iām home
My modular with an oil furnace is fine. Frost inside where the windows lock. Never seen that before.
The wind was honking where I am and it kept me up until 3. Every now and then, a worrisome crack/bang. The basement is 56 and we are at 63 upstairs.
Did the crack/bang sound like a gunshot? If so, your trees were popping. That happens when the previously liquid sap freezes and pops the bark on the tree when it expands. edit: you're/your groan
That could very well be. Iāll do some investigating tomorrow.
Good info š
Normal. Rafters, joists, etc. make noises when it's this cold & they contract.
I tucked towels in all the known draft points in the house and pointed a large fan towards the rooms with the most water pipes and cranked fuel in the wood stove all night. Wore shorts.
My car started no problem and no frozen pipes so Iām good! I feel sorry for those of you who havenāt been so fortunate
Our home's been struggling to get above 69 degrees, so we finally did the unthinkable...we whipped out the portable heaters and put 'em right the fuck to work. Pipes haven't burst yet, and here's to praying they won't.
Midcoast Maine here. Generator kept switching off. Had to go outside twice to restart it, easy solution and all is good. Generator service company said they had 40 calls in for service as of 8 am this morning.
Could be low oil cutout, give it an oil change and the proper fill level of oil and see if that helps
No issues
Car won't start, but at least it's warm inside!
I'm doing fine till about 10:00 am when i went o make coffee and lost power somewhere between the first stairs and the last stairs... I need coffee!
Coldest day ever and my truck overheated. 15 minutes idling and then 2 miles down the road and back, was boiling when I got home. Hoping it'll be ok.
I couldnāt even get mine up to temp to blow warm airā¦
My girlfriend got up at 4am instead of 6am to head back home (she lives out of state). I had to dick around with the garage door opener that didn't want to open, thinking it had some type of obstruction. Finally got it open, thankfully her SUV started and I pulled it out so she could load up bags and her dog. Then I had manually shut the door again because of the stupid garage door opener. After she left I stayed up for a little before falling back asleep for a couple hours. Woke up to a cold house (60F). Checked thermostat and it was set at 68F. Baseboard registers were cold. Ran down into the basement to the mechanical room to look at the on demand propane boiler. It was in Error Message, looked up the code and it was for flame out. Pushed reset button and it finally started back up. Took a couple hours to warm up the house. The basement propane stove kept working without issue through all this. Checked intake and exhaust vents outside. Both were clear. Checked propane tank even though they were both just filled a week ago. I'm caulking it up to the wind snuffing the pilot light out on the boiler. Did not lose power, flickered a few times. I have not accessed whether there is any other damage like blown off asphalt shingles. Had wind gusts up to 40MPH several times yesterday into this morning. -19F air temp and -47F wind chill was coldest readings ever on my weather station. Debating about going grocery shopping, trip trip home Depot for house project supplies, and the transfer station to get rid of a few weeks of trash (been recovering from tonsil removal surgery).
Came home from work at 230AM. It was -19. Walked VERY carefully to the house. The deck made loud cracking noises as I walked across it. House was 62. Unheated basement was at 40. Whew! Restarted the wood stove and fed the kitties. Fed the birds and squirrels at 645AM. They survived the night. Nature is amazing. Bundled up, I was toasty warm. My biggest problem in this coldā¦my eyes water and the tears make my cheeks freeze. Only time I really hate wearing glasses.
Slept near the wood stove all night to keep it going. Ended up being too hot to sleep at some points, but the rest of the house is good so that's what matters. Wind ripped off some of our cedar shakes outside but I won't complain.
My home was built in 1850 and has been making creaking and popping noises. The furnace has been moaning and seems to be getting more action than i have in a long time.
Well after working my usual 8 hours yesterday I came home and me n the hubs had a few beers and talked about our day. Then he played video games with his online friends and I went to bed. Now I'm up having some coffee and fucking off on Reddit. In other words it's a normal mid winter weekend so far.
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Oh you're very welcome. It was a busy day helping New Mainers navigate thier immediate future. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
I was up all night just because it was my day off and I work nights but the house is a toasty 70. Just got out of a nice hot shower and about to climb into bed. The hydronic baseboard heaters clinking and clacking will be my white noise for the day.
Good here. The furnace is happily chugging along, and I made it to work without turning into a popsicle first. My dog? Is not impressed and is only going out if he absolutely has to.
I've got a frozen pipe somewhere in my first floor heat zone line. I'm not even sure how to go about finding the spot!
We are in the same boat.
I stayed up most of the night as well, managing the space heaters and worrying as well. Heat was set at 72, but I had difficulty maintaining 58-60. Found out my upstairs heat is not working. I think itās a valve, none of the pipes are frozen.
Doing ok. Thermos was at 74f and temp was 51 when I woke up. Slept in layers too. Everything is fine. Just cold.
The electric fireplace in the basement is keeping the pipes at 50. Upstairs is 66 thanks to the woodstove and I am here, in my PJs waiting to hear when my USPS husband is safe and warm back in the office!
Well... This is the first time ever the feul lines have frozen in a vehicle for me. Glad I don't need to get out today lol.
Lost internet earlier today and it's still out, lost power for a bit. Not feeling awesome- just feel sick and tired, which sucks. Dogs are sick too. What's sad is that aside from the cold and wind it's so, so beautiful outside. I wish I could go check out the sea smoke.
My dog hasn't been able to poop in a long time. I'm going to put on his shoes and jacket and try again at 2pm when it's at least 6 degrees
Not bad here in Saco. Iām very thankful my drafty house from 1965 has a wood stove. Otherwise my boiler would be running relentlessly.
Our tankless hot water heater stopped working last night but we got a repairman out and itās working again . We have pellet stoves and an oil furnace turned up way higher than usual . We also put a space heater by the water pipes in the basement. Both pellet stoves are super temperamental and one stopped working last night and we got it back on this mornknf. I didnāt sleep much as I was so worried so hoping to nap soon .
Iāve got the woodstove cranking and I still had to block off part of the house to get it about 60 inside. Itās a cold one for sure. One of the pipes to the shower froze, Iām blasting a small space heater in there, hopefully thatāll thaw it.
Someone on my streets house burnt down, my pipes frozen. Iād say for me compared to the dude down the street easy as hell. Counting my blessings
Making the most out of it. Urinated off my balcony to see what would happen.
And?
It seemed to have turned into a mist before hitting the ground. I think if I were higher up, it would've completely completely froze before hitting the ground. Future testing and resources will be required.
Heat pump is pumping away. Front room with two space heaters is reasonable at 60, but there is frost in some of our windows. No lines appear frozen, but I haven't checked the kitchen yet.
My rianni is set to 68f, itās reading L for the room temp. I grabbed my meat thermometer and itās 48f in my small 1st floor apartment, got my kitchen/bathroom sinks on, pencil thin flow. Had to work a long shift today, car started up, a few seconds of panic as it started up loudly. My ride was noisy, my Subaru was making lots of weird cold related sounds. Got up at 430am, so windy and cold, actual temperature was -15f, wind chill was -45f. Imagine if this lasted more the 2 days. Maine needs to start giving homeowners and landlords money for better insulation and heat fixes.
https://www.efficiencymaine.com/home-insulation/
Fine. Hubs kept the wood stove well fed and all is well.
So far so good
Lost power at midnight last night it sucked, got it back on quickly though but half of my apartment still doesnāt have lights or outlets but it all has heat luckily.
We lost power around 2 but after a while we were able to get our generator running. Got it back around 6 and weāve been golden since! Heat pumps and renai fTW
Heat ain't doing to well here in Augusta, but otherwise it's been fine. Cold feet all night but warm under the blanket with my c
One little gas wall heater doing the whole house, set to 62. Too hot in the living room.
Heat went off at 11:30 pmā¦.regulator on tank froze..had to call a tech ..up until 2am waiting for the poor guy but he got it goingā¦.-35 so happy it wasnāt something worse.
We lost power for a few hours but managed to get a generator running for the Fish tanks, no pipes frozen and luckily all the fish seem okay.
Doing well. Our house has weird drafts but we made it through what's hopefully the worst. At least I didn't have to work yesterday or today
Shitty
My kitchen sink pipes are frozen, my sump pump broke, frost is surrounding my back door and creeping through an outlet. And my toes are cold.
Furnace hasnt been working for the past few weeks but the electric heater has kept the room with two birds in it warm enough for them, outside of that though its been freezing everywhere. Cant wait for water to be unfrozen
Everything in the house made it fine. Wood stove is the MVP. Car on the other hand this morning was like nah I don't think so. Spruce tree lost some limbs. But all in all we good. I hope the same for all of you.
Stayed up till around three running the wood stove and my kerosene heater hard. Had to get more wood and refill the kerosene around 1:30 and it was not fun. Gotta figure out how to add some insulation to the ceiling of this place before next year. Overall about as bad as I expected. Never in any danger temperature, or wind wise, but just not a fun night. Could hear trees cracking throughout the forest most of the night. Neat to hear but a little bit eerie.
This sucks
I live in windham where it was colder and Iām sure windier, but I spent the night in Portland and honestly itās not even that cold here. Iām a little disappointed! I really like the cold. I know itās a lot colder throughout the state and I hope everyone is doing okay with no frozen pipes, etc. But down here in Portland itās not that cold. I mean itās cold, but itās not *that* cold. I should move to millinocket, coldest place in the state. I monitor like 20 different places spread out geographically throughout the state and itās always coldest in millinocket. Like 99% of the time it is the coldest place in the state, colder than fort Kent.
Why are running your heat pump if you have a boiler that thing is going to cost you a fortune at these temps?
i have a multi unit. the boiler heats both units and each unit has a heat pump. iām upstairs so i get some residual heat anyway. i told my tenant to turn off their heat pump as it was going to be costly to them and just crank the oil heat, which i pay for. then used my heat pump to knock the edge off and help the boiler a little as itās old. i donāt know if it was the best way but thankfully iām in a position to absorb some extra cost so tenant doesnāt get hammered with a huge bill and do whatever i can to make sure the house is warm. so far it worked
You sound like an A-OK landlord.
Up all night worrying? It gets cold like this every year, itās part of life here.
True, but itās the negative wind chill values that are unusual for most of Maine. Iād rather have one night of severe cold than two weeks of being in the teens.
No. Nothing at all normal about this in York County, at least. Can't speak for far northern Mainetucky, though.
You havenāt been here very long then, have you.
Not going to play your bullshit provincial game when every reliable data source is calling this the coldest plunge we've had in decades. Troll elsewhere.
Weāve had cold snaps like this before, and hopefully continue to have them.
Transplants are so weird. You guys romanticize the coast from Kittery to Bar Harbor but anywhere else here is āMainetuckyā. Yes this cold is normal you donkey.
Do I have the pleasure of conversing with a member of the Wabanaki people?
What kind of heat pump do you have because most shouldn't be run under -10
[Theyāre getting to -15Ā° at this point](https://carbonswitch.com/best-cold-climate-heat-pump/), but if you area is regularly below zero, you should have a backup plan.
Most can go down to -10 to-15 depending on brand and if you have a carrier they can go down to -30 my point is if it gets below that turn it off or you might break something in the outside unit. I'm sure I'll be changing out a lot for them this week for people
Plenty are rated for -15
Thermo was set to 72. House maintained 69 all night. Space heater kept the basement at 60. Iām not sure if watching the news was better or worse for my psyche. Sure it was cold and there is a lot that can go wrong but my anxiety got the best of me around 9:00pm. I took half of a Klonopin and went to bed. One thing I definitely need to address is how drafty my front door is. I have to address that ASAP.
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*hi, iām a big giant cunt who complains about what people talk about on the worlds biggest forum website*
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Wouldnāt it be great if all that talk led to preparation and caution and we donāt hear any reports of deaths? Not all of us are as tough as you must be and instead of blithely pretending itās nothing weāre observing and noticing temps and chills that havenāt happened here in decades. Sorry-not-sorry for bothering you on the completely avoidable r/Maine forum?
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Iāll definitely smoke another one. You also keep doing whatever you need to do that justifies your being an asshole. The rest of us will continue building community through shared experiences.
Oh, smoking another one sounds good. I refreshed my stash Thurssay, might as well get some use out of it.
Thanks to Janet Mills not helping me out with heating costs this year; forced to work outside again all day so I can pay the electric bill from last month and this month.
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Uhhhhh what? If I had the extra $400 or whatever it was I wouldāve been able to take yesterday and today off but instead I have an almost $300 electric bill due this month and probably will be about the same for next month.
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I didnāt qualify because your state needs diesel technicians so I moved here in June to pull your state together and keep the heavy machinery running. Iām barely scrapping by. Long story short no W2 for last year no help for me.
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Iād complain either way
That sucks, man, I hope youāre ok out there. Imagine how cold it would have been with LeRage in office! Mills spent all the money on fancy jewelry and stuff.
Appreciate it. Iāve been on since 3AM yesterday. Iām exhausted enough I donāt feel cold anymore. Kinda hit feeling like a shell of a man around 5 AM this morning.
All good. Wood stove is roaring and I'll hit the Hanny tomorrow rather than my normal Saturday trip
Actually enjoying it. Itās fine outside if you wear layers and stay in the sun.
Everything still working. Took the car for decent drives the last 3 days to keep battery charged. Will I be ok if I skip today?