Helllllllllllllllo Winter! ( Edmonton ) [Archive] - Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board

Delphinus

01-28-2008, 03:37 PM

Brrrr. I like wind, just not in January.

Stay warm everyone.

Oh and my heart goes out to those folks in Vancouver being victimized by this foul weather. I heard it was MINUS SEVEN! :eek: Oh the humanity! Hang in there everyone!!!!!

bassman

01-28-2008, 03:43 PM

digital-audiophile

01-28-2008, 03:53 PM

This is one of the reasons I do not live in Regina or Winnipeg.. I can handle a couple days like this... but a full winter of -30.. no thanks :p

Delphinus

01-28-2008, 03:55 PM

Yeah, sorry, I was kidding around. I was implying that -7 feels downright tropical compared to what I felt this morning trying to dig my house out from the snowdrifts. It was -31 this morning on my thermometer and the wind was howling - the windchill was -53 or something insane. I'm sure it's even colder in other places too!

... to be fair, I'm pretty sure -7 would be pretty much pandemonium and chaos in a place like Vancouver.

marie

01-28-2008, 04:01 PM

... to be fair, I'm pretty sure -7 would be pretty much pandemonium and chaos in a place like Vancouver.

It's the threat of snow that does that :razz: . The cold just makes people whine and complain a lot :lol:

pandafishowner

01-28-2008, 04:13 PM

Bah! As if Winterpeg is warmer than Calgary right now! :neutral: The injustice of that! My family is nice and warm there and I'm cold here. :cry:

Phanman

01-28-2008, 04:26 PM

I should have seriously called in sick today... walking 5 blocks from the c-train downtown was just retardedly cold... I thought my ears were going to fall off.

Moogled

01-28-2008, 05:25 PM

Ez. Wear more layers.

It's nearly -40 in CGY and I'm glad I have a high affinity to temperatures.

hillbillyreefer

01-28-2008, 05:39 PM

Minus 50 C with the windchill here. Betcha the cattle are chilly!!!!!! They've been fed but they just peaked out of the shed and said #@$% you!!!!

Throw another log on the fire and stay warm.

Brad

pandafishowner

01-28-2008, 05:45 PM

current temp in Calgary based on weathernetwork.com

-31
A few clouds
Feels Like: -48

:sad:

Slick Fork

01-28-2008, 07:14 PM

Minus 50 C with the windchill here. Betcha the cattle are chilly!!!!!! They've been fed but they just peaked out of the shed and said #@$% you!!!!

Throw another log on the fire and stay warm.

Brad

Yours stuck their head out? My wife made me feed the horses IN the run-in. They are eyeballing the barn trying to figure out how to get in with all the grain. Discovered the well froze this morning when I ran out of water halfway through my shower. NOT a happy camper

hillbillyreefer

01-28-2008, 07:48 PM

Well hasn't froze off yet waiting for that to happen, should be sometime tonight or tomorrow morning. Pretty bad when you know roughly when your well will freeze up.

digital-audiophile

01-28-2008, 08:31 PM

Other than having to feed livestock when it is this cold I envy you country guys. I hate living in the city.

My family roots are ranching in the crowsnest pass and I wish my grandpa had never sold the ranch as I would love to live on the land :(

fishoholic

01-28-2008, 08:59 PM

Today would of been a great day for a snow day! But alas I had to go to work

SeaSerpant

01-29-2008, 01:52 AM

It was -46 with the wind chill here. I think the only school open was mine:cry: West Edmonton Christian School:lol:

KrazyKuch

01-29-2008, 04:01 AM

wow...just looked at the weather for tomorrow.....-37 till tomorrow at noon....thats without the windchill!!!!

Pan

01-29-2008, 04:03 AM

-62 with windchill here

michika

01-29-2008, 04:06 AM

I am no longer making snarky comments about how people with electric blankets are wusses....can I have an electric blanket now?

Aquattro

01-29-2008, 04:07 AM

Well, Victoria hit -4 today, and we even got almost an inch of snow!!

iansfishy

01-29-2008, 04:28 AM

oh no, not -4!!! lol. Had to feed horses this morning in -34 at 3:30 am then haed to work.. in a mountain mine claim. lets just say at - 55 bare skin will get frost bite in two and a half minutes. been like that for two days and supposed to be that way tommorow as well. when its that cold no equipment runs proper, gotta spend the whole twelve hours repairing stuff. not complaining though, it really makes you appreciate the summer. i feel for the boys in the oil patch though!!

iansfishy

01-29-2008, 04:30 AM

apperantly cold also makes your spelling ability go down the shi#$%!!

Edmonton Eskimo

01-29-2008, 05:06 AM

AH, This is the stuff I live for! No complaining here. Think of it this way, this is how winter used to be for three or four months straight! No seriously though I am arctic through and through and I just love that not only can I survive this I actually kind of enjoy it.

Brighteyes_13

01-29-2008, 05:44 AM

This morning managed to pry my car door open, and the car finally started, only to get to work and have a snow day called half an hour later.

we have a much better plan tomorrow morn... everyone call the boss at 6:15 if its below -30 and nobody goes in.

vazgor

01-29-2008, 12:45 PM

woot when the mail box on the phone at work is full that tells me im not the only one who thinks it's to dam cold to work :)
stay warm out there people
i might get the drive way shoveled out today tried 3 times yesterday

doublette

01-29-2008, 02:25 PM

It was -46 with the wind chill here. I think the only school open was mine:cry: West Edmonton Christian School:lol:

One of our 13 yr old daughters was complaining that she shouldn't have to walk to school today, that I should drive her.... we live 3/4 of a block from her school! These kids have no idea sometimes!:wink:
Debbie

atcguy

01-29-2008, 03:24 PM

ya fricking cold here right now in vncouver -1 and a light dusting of snow brrrrrrrrrrrrr... vancouver rocks!!! Prairie Suckers...... Go nucks!!!!!

iansfishy

01-30-2008, 03:05 AM

go NUCKS. Ohlund will take those boys right to to the cup. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!! just once before i die, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!1

Parker

01-30-2008, 03:32 AM

No point in getting your hopes up..

Go Oilers..

Delphinus

01-30-2008, 03:34 AM

Go Riders!

err .. um .. wrong sport, ooops.

dsaundry

01-30-2008, 03:36 AM

Is this Global Warming?:razz:

marie

01-30-2008, 03:37 AM

One of our 13 yr old daughters was complaining that she shouldn't have to walk to school today, that I should drive her.... we live 3/4 of a block from her school! These kids have no idea sometimes!:wink:
Debbie

You have more then one 13yr old daughter?? :surprise:

You have my deepest sympathy :lol:

rigger11

01-30-2008, 03:55 AM

-45 with out the wind. pulled 4700m of pipe yesterday in that crap!!!! and where is global warming???!!!!! better get here soon!!!! i freeze so everyone else can heat their homes!!!haha

atcguy

01-30-2008, 03:57 AM

hopes up?? ah yes you live in edmonton!!! you wont even be seeing the big dance rounds.... lifes tough .. I feel for ya!!! ,

Parker

01-30-2008, 04:06 AM

hopes up?? ah yes you live in edmonton!!! you wont even be seeing the big dance rounds.... lifes tough .. I feel for ya!!! ,

Hey I forgot, when was the last time Vancouver won a cup? oooohhhhh that's right.. never :-)

Delphinus

01-30-2008, 04:37 AM

http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/a/d/a/119946/icyvents-0.jpg

Think a guy ought to be worried about this? I mean .. it's going to start to thaw out sooner or later. :neutral:

Chaloupa

01-30-2008, 06:08 AM

I love reading threads like this...then when I feel sorry for myself because I have to scrape the windows, and get our daughter to shovel the 5 or 6 inches of snow off the driveway...I can think of all of you and realize I have it pretty good!:lol: I feel for ya!

Delphinus

01-30-2008, 06:12 AM

Not related to anything in particular, but had to share this "booooo" moment. Reefcentral went down on me while I was in the middle of reading 2 threads. And someone replied to one I had just posted on and I just pressed "Refresh" and poof, gone. I've been sitting here for 1/2 hour pressing refresh every few seconds. I'm starting to get sleepy! Darn it, I want to hit the sack!! But I keep thinking "this might be the minute that RC resets itself."

Boo, boo, booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. :lol:

doublette

01-30-2008, 03:29 PM

You have more then one 13yr old daughter?? :surprise:

You have my deepest sympathy :lol:

Thanks! We have twin girls and I wonder sometimes if we'll even make it through the teen years without strangling them!:wink: And it's only just beginning! :biggrin:

bassman

01-30-2008, 03:49 PM

http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/a/d/a/119946/icyvents-0.jpg

Think a guy ought to be worried about this? I mean .. it's going to start to thaw out sooner or later. :neutral:

Is that your fresh air intake? Is it touching anything? Is there anything directly below it?

You can buy pipe insulation/wrap to keep that from happening.

If all is clear around it and under it you shouldn't have to worry about it. You might want to place a container of some kind under it to catch any water that might drip on the floor.

digital-audiophile

01-30-2008, 03:54 PM

Wow! Thats amazing that it is frozen in your basement. You figure with the heat from the house and all the extra heat from all your tanks it would not frost up like that.

Matt

01-30-2008, 04:08 PM

Is this Global Warming?:razz:
No, this is a cold week. This is global warming:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/01/31/wreef131.jpg

atcguy

01-30-2008, 04:13 PM

your days are over, coming to vancouver before it ever goes back to edmonton

digital-audiophile

01-30-2008, 04:19 PM

:( Look at that bleached reef :(

Delphinus

01-30-2008, 05:01 PM

Is that your fresh air intake? Is it touching anything? Is there anything directly below it?

You can buy pipe insulation/wrap to keep that from happening.

If all is clear around it and under it you shouldn't have to worry about it. You might want to place a container of some kind under it to catch any water that might drip on the floor.

It's the vent that goes from the HRV over to the furnace intake, so it is an intake of sorts but I thought it was supposed to have recovered SOME heat from the outgoing air it's exchanging. I know I can get wrapping, and if it's needed I'll just go do it, but I was assuming that this thing was installed properly. The vents that go the HRV from the outside are completely wrapped.

It's more the fact that it will drip right onto my electrical panel that concerns me. I guess it's not really clear in the perspective of the photo but that pipe is right butted up against the wall which means it overlaps the electrical box.

I think I'm going to make a service call to the installers just to ensure things are correct - I suppose that this IS extreme weather so who knows what's "normal" in these circumstances.

On the plus side, all my windows are dry. Not even condensation. Before the HRV I would have had 1/2" of ice on them by now. :biggrin:

bassman

01-30-2008, 05:25 PM

Excuse my ignorance but what is a HRV?

Matt

01-30-2008, 06:38 PM

:( Look at that bleached reef :(Your avatar has never seemed more appropriate.

Delphinus

01-30-2008, 09:28 PM

Sorry - Heat Recovery Ventilator. It's a heat exchanger that's increasing the inside/outside air turnover in my house (swapping inside air for outside air, but preheating in the incoming air using the heat from the outgoing air). I was having some terrible humidity issues in my house and this was my last ditch attempt to get that under control. Basically a bathroom fan to suck air out, but takes two extra steps - one to replace the air it removes, and two to preheat that air so that the furnace isn't reheating the air. So although it's a bump in energy consumption, it's not a huge waste of energy consumption to keep humidity at bay.

Excuse my ignorance but what is a HRV?

bassman

01-30-2008, 09:36 PM

Hmm, interesting. I have no experience with those so I have nothing intelligent to contribute LOL. Do you have a humdifier on your furnace? I used to have a sef contained de-humidifier that worked great, but it sucked power too.

Delphinus

01-30-2008, 09:41 PM

Oh yeah, but I've had that thing shutoff since a few months after we moved in. I had a hardwood guy who came in to do some warrantee work on the flooring lecture me about how it was "way too humid in here." Geeez it's just a couple of aquariums in the basement! :lol:

bassman

01-30-2008, 09:48 PM

I can relate, my last home was the same way.

I would definitely call a service tech about it. Being that it WILL drip on your electrical panel I would get that rectified as soon as possible.

adidas

01-30-2008, 10:51 PM

Delphinus

01-30-2008, 10:58 PM

Ah...well, luckily it wasn't humidity damage that they were supposed to be fixing. But still I was like.. "you guys make a huge stinking deal about not wanting your floors exposed too low of a humidity, and here you are lecturing me about having humidity." I sort of wonder if these place just like to whine. "Customers are so awful." :lol: ("Oh, here's the problem, you insisted on having this floor installed on a day ending in 'y'." :) )