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Took this a little bit ago. We've got about 6 inches on the ground right now with probably at least another 6 on the way. Both of us are home from work today. The whole city is pretty much shut down.

Did you put that up? I want to get something like that. Is it attached to the roof at all or does it stand free?

There's a patio there underneath it that runs the full length of the house excluding the garage which is in front of the car in the photo. It's attached to the house. I wouldn't know where to begin to put something like that up.

And maybe talk to one of the helpful guys at Home Depot.

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A few (2-3? edit YEARS AGO) we had huge show/ice in DC area, and I couldn't ascend walkway beside my apartment, to get to street. Fortunately, I'd supplied myself w adequate food, and since then landlady has both had walk shoveled, and supplied de-icer.

I use pic from my window as phone 'wallpaper.'

Meant to say 2-3 'years' ago, recall, big long cold snow and ice? Stuck in Hagerstown apartment then!

I love winter. I hibernate in the summertime.... in front of the AC with a big glass of ice chips.

We are getting some snow right now. Of course, it helps that I'm on break and don't have to drive today!

So that explains the helicopters flying around overhead. [img][/img]

it's California! My son, an 18-year-old native, commented, "Isn't it funny that most people in California never wear much more than a sweatshirt when it's cold?"
We light the little wood stove in the evening at this time of year, but the house temp is around 55-60 otherwise.
I tried to use my little old Singer sewing machine and its motor's grease isn't warm enough so it goes chug...chug...chug instead of whirrrr. Guess I'll have to thaw it with the hair dryer.

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... in SE Pennsylvania. ROUGH winter. Their oil would thicken when temps got below
agout 20-25 degrees F (it was often in the TEENS that year). There were "block heaters"
that you could plug in and they would warm the engine block JUST enough to keep the
oil free-flowing.
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This had been a bare-bones car -- not even an AM radio, so when all sorts of searching
(I didn't have a manual) failed to turn up anything that looked like an electrical plug end,
I figured it didn't have one. Had to get up 1/2 hour early when the temp was in the teens
and slide a huge piece of cardboard under the car (snow) and wiggle on my back underneath
it to place a little space heater angled upwards. It would warm the block and everything
was fine (otherwise, it just wouldn't start).
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Got so sick of this after a month that I looked again and immediately spotted two male
prongs coming from the frame (?!?!?!?) near the top of the radiator, plugged it in to the
house current the next night and all was fine.
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Sometimes, I feel I missed my calling as CEO of Doofus, Inc.
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He says it's not cold enough here for the problem you had, but the glow-plug and relay weren't so hot.

My dad had various old Jaguars over the years which he babied along. He, the commuter, got the one space in our garage for his car, where he'd suspend a light bulb under the hood all night on cold winter nights in Massachusetts. The outside of the cars resembled a crouching panther, but the engine was treated like a reptile in a terrarium.

I am becoming envious of those people in the "Forever Lazy" commercial, and I am starting to wish I had one of those dorky things.