OK-- all you "sunbelters"---

[Wolfman]

how do you heat your place in weather like this. I just flip a switch on my thermostat from "cool" to "heat" and VIOLA I have heat instead of AC. I'm seeing on the Weather Channel how some folks have no heat. Do they have no AC also ? How are you all heating your place in this cold weather ?

[Mikey]

I'm sitting here watching the game in shorts. It was close to 80 here today.

When I do need heat I do the same thing as you. Furnace burns natural gas. Yours?

[smackaholic]

I'm sitting here watching the game in shorts. It was close to 80 here today.

When I do need heat I do the same thing as you. Furnace burns natural gas. Yours?

Surprised they would actually bother with a gas furnace for the 3 days a year you need heat. I would think your AC in heat pump mode would do the job. Maybe electric resistance coil for when it gets close to freezing.

[Wolfman]

I'm all electric here. The heat pump takes care of both modes. Back in CNY I had a natural gas hot air furnace. That was fun heating a two story wood frame house when the outside temperatures dipped below zero.

[Carson]

I've had to hit the emergency heat switch on my heat pump; activates a heat strip.

When outside air won't allow temperature transfer(extreme heat and cold), heat pumps become useless, hence no heat.

Wolfman, wait 'til tomorrow morning and see what your unit does.

[The Seer]

If the wind chill is like -50 or something like in Fargo, you could conceivably just turn on the AC set to 60 and it would warm things up, right? Just in case the heater broke....

[BSmack]

If the wind chill is like -50 or something like in Fargo, you could conceivably just turn on the AC set to 60 and it would warm things up, right? Just in case the heater broke....

Will the SoCals please refrain from posting about what to do in winter weather. Seriously, you're about as informative as Ray Charles talking about a sunset.

[Y2K]

The 50 gallon drum outside my cardboard mansion cranks out the best heat when stoked with leftover pallets and newspaper. Embers are a bitch though.

[War Wagon]

Will the SoCals please refrain from posting about what to do in winter weather.

They go take a walk on the beach and having fucking bode.

And I hate them.

They should be annexed by Mexico.

[Ana Ng]

6.5 earthquake on the No Cal coast yesterday afternoon.

No tsunami alert for us in San Diego this time, but who knows....you jerks could get lucky soon. It was the 3rd quake since Thursday, although the other two were under 5.0.


I'm almost willing to take a wave to the yard, if it wipes out Dio's grungy dumper on the way to my doormat.

[Diogenes]

6.5 earthquake on the No Cal coast yesterday afternoon.

No tsunami alert for us in San Diego this time, but who knows....you jerks could get lucky soon. It was the 3rd quake since Thursday, although the other two were under 5.0.


I'm almost willing to take a wave to the yard, if it wipes out Dio's grungy dumper on the way to my doormat.

You're so sweet.

[Diego in Seattle]

Will the SoCals please refrain from posting about what to do in winter weather.

They go take a walk on the beach and having fucking bode.

Do they have bode?

I'll have to ponder that later this morning while I take an hour-long shower.

And later look at the lush green landscape.

[smackaholic]

Will the SoCals please refrain from posting about what to do in winter weather.

They go take a walk on the beach and having fucking bode.

And I hate them.

They should be annexed by Mexico.

whataya mean "should"?

[Diogenes]

They go take a walk on the beach and having fucking bode.

And I hate them.

They should be annexed by Mexico.

whataya mean "should"?

It's all good. Once Obamacare goes through, most of the doctors will probably eventually go south of the border to avoid it. The proximity will come in handy.

Canada, we feel your pain. Or at least we will.

[Mikey]

Will the SoCals please refrain from posting about what to do in winter weather.

They go take a walk on the beach and having fucking bode.

Do they have bode?

I'll have to ponder that later this morning while I take an hour-long shower.

And later look at the lush green landscape.

Must be awhile since you've been in San Diego.

My landscape is plenty lush and green right now, and I haven't run the irrigation in about 2 months.

[smackaholic]

Must be awhile since you've been in San Diego.

My landscape is plenty lush and green right now, and I haven't run the irrigation in about 2 months.

My landscape is brown grey and frozen stiff, but, atleast I know it will come back with a vengeance in a few months and is more or less guaranteed to not go up in flames or get washed into a different zipcode.

[Diego in Seattle]

Must be awhile since you've been in San Diego.

My landscape is plenty lush and green right now, and I haven't run the irrigation in about 2 months.

Late September was the last time I was there physically.

But I also read the Onion-Tribune every day & know about the water restrictions.

[Mikey]

Must be awhile since you've been in San Diego.

My landscape is plenty lush and green right now, and I haven't run the irrigation in about 2 months.

Late September was the last time I was there physically.

But I also read the Onion-Tribune every day & know about the water restrictions.

You must not have looked around much when you lived here.

San Diego is brown in the summer. That's the way it's always been and the way it's SUPPOSED to be.

First rains in November things start getting green, water restrictions or not. While the rest of the country is cold, brown and dead California starts coming to life, culminating in the amazing spring bloom.

Too bad you apparently have no idea of the natural cycles of the places you've lived.

[Dinsdale]

Not a "sunbelter," but...

Wood bruning insert. Part of the "extended" family lives on 10 heavily wooded acres, and the windfall alone is more than 2 households use.


BTW-lawn's been growing a bit... very slowly, but growing nonetheless.