Subj : Hydro went off - again To : Kurt Weiske From : August Abolins Date : Sun Nov 22 2020 16:49:00 Hello Kurt! ** On Sunday 22.11.20 - 11:33, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins: AA>> Hydro went out at 7am. It is now almost 10am. Would be nice to have AA>> some hot water. KW> By "Hydro", do you mean the water supply or just hot water? Hydro is the short-form we use to mean hyro electric power. The main company that produces and oversees distribution is called Hydro Canada. They are also involved in the various nuclear powered facilities all over the country, but we still refer to the lack of electric power as "no hydro". KW> If you've got fresh snowfall coming and a camp stove, you could make KW> it work. Where there's a will, there's a way. :) How would fresh snowfall help - oh, you mean drinking water? I have a home wood stove. Carmor(tm). Top-loading. AA>> Cold coffee is getting old, fast. Power *is* present at AA>> my shop. I have to be there today anyway. On we go. KW> At least you've got a place to charge and make coffee, then. I did indeed. But I didn't stick around very long. The downtown was quite dead - only traffic zipping through. Nobody was interested in shopping much today. So, I came home after 3 hours. Turns out that the outtage was actually a planned outtage - that I forgot about. They announced it 2 weeks ago. I can't rememeber a piddly little detail like that after two weeks! I remembered that detail just before I left the house. But before I did that, I took the opportunity of the power outtage and daylight to replace a thermostat-switch that wasn't working. The whole house is equipped with the same model. So, I swapped out a good one from a room I don't use, and always kept handy when I could motivate myself to take off the broken one. This is what I was replacing: http://pics.rsh.ru/img/thermostat-switch_6s43dvjt.jpg The highest I could turn the broken one was to the 10 o-clock position. I lived with that seized/broken one for 3 winters. Not bad. Coldest it ever got was 11C in my main living area. I still have same heating (base-boards) in the lower part of the house. Those I could crank up higher on the coldest days to compensate. The heat would flow upwards through the large open stairwell. My main living room (I've closed off most of the other rooms) is now nearly at 17C from a previous low of 12C this morning. Good enough. The hydro was off only 5.5 hours this morning. -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.47 * Origin: Mobile? COFFEE_KLATSCH = https://tinyurl.com/y56r9f2o (2:221/1.58) .