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

[Betty]

Ouch! 33-35C is about 91-95F. And being the UK, it probably was humid at the time too, making it feel worse. We've been lucky on most of the hottest days, the humidity didn't get too high like it did during past summers. A dry 90F (32C) is much more bearable than a very humid & sticky 80F (27C)... especially for me, humid weather or a low barometer is much harder for me to breathe with COPD.

My O2 machine gives off tons of heat like a heater, plus the back of my ancient refrigerator gives off lots of heat. I'm on a second floor with an apartment above & below me, & on each side of me, with only a couple small windows. So even with fans in the windows, it can be up to 10 degrees hotter inside than outside. Without AC, the place would be uninhabitable at 85F (29C) outside.

But the AC is small, only drawing 430-450 watts, & it's 13 years old, so it can't keep up.

Typical midnight temperatures the past week has been anywhere from 77F (25C) to 81F (27C). Yesterday afternoon it got up to 87F (31C).

Update: It just now hit 88F outside here.

[samantha1]

Hi Betty,thanks goodness the temperature has now dropped down too  21-25c

[Betty]

Nearing the end of April & we have 4 inches of snow on the ground, with another inch expected. It hit over 60F (16C) a week ago, & 70F (21C) 2 weeks ago. Expecting a windy 28F (-2C) tonight.

[Betty]

We had some 60s F (around 16C) days & even a couple 70F (21C) days a few weeks ago. But now for over a week, we've cooled down to March-like weather with lots of rainy, overcast, & foggy days... 30s (-1C) to low 50s F (10C) temperatures. They're saying the next 60F day is over a week away. All that rainy weather brings a low barometer, making my COPD much worse. A low barometer makes the air as thin as being on top a tall skyscaper, or small mountian & hard to breathe.

[samantha1]

hi Betty/i see you are having heavy snow at present.Do  you still have electric at your place and how are you coping with copd in this weather.I just saw how bad  Buffalo  pictures  are and the weather  looks lousy.

[andyg0404]

Hi Betty,

To expand on Samantha's post, I just read a really scary article in the Times about the storm you are experiencing. It says 28,000 families are without power. Below are a few lines from the article stressing the severity of the storm. Hope you are safe and warm and able to enjoy your Xmas.

At least three people died in Erie County, two of them because emergency responders could not get there fast enough; whiteout conditions left roads so choked with snow that sometimes even snowplows could not clear them.

“This may turn out to be the worst storm in our community’s history, surpassing the famed Blizzard of ’77 for its ferocity,” Mark Poloncarz, the Erie County executive, said on Saturday."

Andy G.

[Betty]

It was a terrifying experience. I had around 70mph winds (113km/hr) shaking the house, rattling my windows, & making my lights flicker non-stop for over 2 days. But I'm OK & the power stayed on.

A fallen tree crashed down, knocking out my internet, just barely missing my power lines. Tethered to my mobile phone's internet for now. But that is sometimes running almost as slow as a dialup connection since the storm. It's supposed to 10-30mbs, or 5mbs tethered to a computer.

I'll get back to you later when I get a better connection. All my online time here was consumed just doing regular maintenance & backups on a slow connection. Plus my entire connection to the outside world is through the internet. It's taking forever just to catch up with everything around Christmas... messages, emails, other sites, etc.

[andyg0404]

Hi Betty,

It sounds horrific, glad you made it through OK. I know what it's like working on the slow Internet. As I mentioned in another post, my Internet connection was degraded after doing updates.

Be well.

Andy G.

[samantha1]

I am glad  to hear that you still  have power and you are ok.Hopefully your internet and computer will be running better soon.

[Betty]

It's all slowly melting. Got up to 46F (8C) today. Quite a change from 7F (-14C) with -20F (-29C) wind chills. It may hit the 50s F this weekend, & possibly 60F (16C) next week.

They plowed a single narrow lane down the middle of my street last night. But you have to climb a 4-6 foot wall of snow to get to it. Verizon had promised they'd be here today to fix my internet, but nobody showed up.

The last time my internet was down, near the end of summer, in perfect weather, they didn't show up when promised either. Instead, the showed up unannounced about a month later.