Sissy stuff to keep warm with during the "VORTEX"?

[Angela M...]

Have been away from the computer for awhile, had to go out of town for Christmas but it was nice to drive and not battle too much traffic and bad weather at the same time. The grass along the highways is a wonderful green again and as with all the plants, they think Spring is here. They are saying it will be very bad for the Niagara fruit industry this year when the freezing temps hit it will kill all the buds and limit fruit production.

[Angela M...]

Hope you can manage to get through this crazy weather system and breath easier. Merry Christmas, luv Angela M...

[Betty]

We had a relatively fair fall & beginning of winter until now. But winter was only a couple weeks old. It's 12F outside with a wind chill of 7F. About an inch of snow on the ground. A 35 degree temperature drop in less than a week. Had to slip on my thicker winter socks because my floors were too cold. Interestingly, the toilet seat wasn't cold at all this morning, the wind & draft must be blowing in the right direction.

The bathroom has no heat source or heat vents. So the only heat it gets is what drifts through the door from the rest of the apartment, unless I turn on a portable electric heater in there. But it isn't far from the kitchen, which gets very warm with just a little cooking.

[Angela M...]

Hey Betty, it is pretty cold here too, well we are not that far from each other really. My old mom had a small heater in her two piece bathroom in her bedroom as there was no heat in there and she would get up at night to use it. The room was my old bedroom when I lived at home but there was a closet where her bathroom is now. In the back of it was a secret panel that I could remove and crawl into the attic and hide all my girly stuff. I had all my panties,tights a leotard and plastic panties as well as a blouse and pleated schoolgirls skirt and my winter tights. There were also some kinky drawings I did and some Rubber wear catalogs from Britain and magazines. When I moved to Toronto for a job I lived with my aunt & uncle sharing a room with my cousin so I could not bring those things with me. I would go home every few weeks and was surprised one time when the room was taken over by my parents and they had turned the closet into a two piece bathroom. The panel was still there but not easy to access so when they were out I managed to get back there and discovered that my things were gone. As dad did all the work I figured he must have found it but there was no lecture or mention of the box and the things inside. Since my late teens I wondered if he did find it and I looked many times in the past few years after he passed away and mom got older and very forgetful. After she passed away I tore out the wall when I was cleaning the house and crawled through half the attic just to make sure the box did not get pushed aside but it was gone. For forty years I have wondered if they were going to confront me about it someday but that never happened. I really would have loved to find that box and the things in it, if they were in any condition to find that is. 

[Betty]

It's very odd that so many homes & apartments this far north are designed with no heat source in bathrooms. Even on days the bathroom wouldn't be unbearably cold, the water pipes for the bathroom, between the walls & under the bathroom were much colder, so could freeze or burst. Then they located most of these unheated bathrooms on the far end or corner of the dwelling, so even if they did have heat, they'd still be the coldest room in the house. Then the pipes would be run inside an outside facing wall so on a day like this, they would almost always freeze.

You wouldn't logically think the bathroom should be a room without heat or poorly heated anyway. We probably spend more time naked, half naked, or barefoot in the bathroom than any other room in the house. Pant's down on the cold toilet, or naked washing, & barefoot if you want to clean your feet too. And if you're wet, you'd feel 10 times colder. I guess the design logic was that it was much warmer & nicer than an outhouse so didn't need heat. But outhouses didn't have running water, & people didn't wash, shower, or shave in them.

[Betty]

49F (9.4 C) outside. Sunday afternoon they say it will be 52F (11C) with rain, then Sunday evening 20F (-7C) with snow. By the end of that week they say our snow will be measured in feet instead or inches.

Breathing was terrible all day yesterday, through the night, & this morning. But once the humidity dropped down a bit this afternoon, I'm breathing much better now.

Our current hottest visitor is from Miami where it's a partly cloudy 83F (28C). Our current coldest visitor is from Winnipeg where it's -9F (-23C) & partly cloudy.

[jeangurl]

Here in Adelaide South Australia its going to be about 100 F (38c) TODAY but a few weeks ago we had a max of 45c now that was hot and one could only dream of wearing a gossamer dress and be cool.

Love Jeangurl 

[Betty]

Some weather peeps tend to exaggerate for the hype, drama, & ratings or they don't measure right. Placing a thermometer directly in sunlight doesn't measure the air temperature. It absorbs the radiant heat of the sun when placed in the sun, so is only measuring the temperature of the thermometer, not the air.

My international feeds are showing you're at 90F, with a high of 91-93F expected. But it's a nice dry heat, not that sticky swampy stuff like we get in damp areas, or downwind from lots of hot water in the summer.

It looks like you should be getting a significant cooling down by Thur., & of course you always have cool comfy dry nights.

[Betty]

Winter arrived today. 28F & falling. It was 50F just a little over 12 hours ago. Most of the snow will hit south of the city & the southern part of the city, miles from me in the Allentown Arts district of the city. With advanced COPD, I can't go anywhere anyway. On a good day, I have to take breaks to catch my breath just going up & down the stairs. On a bad day, it's just as bad breathing heavy trying to walk to the bathroom. High winds expected so I just hope the power stays on.

[Angela M...]

In Ontario, we had rain most of the day and although I didn't go out I did stick my head outside when I heard the high winds and a garbage can rolling down the driveway. The temp had dropped quite a bit from this morning and it was starting to snow but by about 3:00 PM it was freezing on the cars and windows and starting to collect on the deck. By supper time we had some snow staying on the ground and I just looked outside and it is snowing again but larger flakes this time and about an inch on the ground. Yes Betty winter is here so the tights come back out again I think.