[TheForge] [YAK] Re: Weather

[Jerry Frost]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer@tallships.ca>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:44 AM
Subject: [TheForge] [YAK] Re: Weather


>
> >> When I lived in Monatgue, Mass., it got so cold one January that the
> >> fire froze up in the stove and we hadda break it up with a cold chisel
> >> and pry it out with crowbars.  Put it out in the barn and dang if the
> >> barn didn't burn down when spring thaw came.
> >>
> >
> > We just toss an electric blanket over the stove to keep it going.
<sheesh!>
>
> Woudn't work in Montague.  It was so cold there that the electricity
> thickened up in the wires and we had to add an alcohol drip at the
> main fuse box just to get it thin enough to run out of the outlets.
>
> - Mike
>
> --


We used to do that but we changed the insulation from wool to PolarGuard and
now use the alcohol to keep to keep us moving.

-22*

Frosty
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