MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet eaa99f6e   
   REPLY: 2561.coffeekl@1:218/700 2420010f   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.47 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   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)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 154/10 203/0 221/1   
   SEEN-BY: 221/6 360 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 452 664 1016   
   SEEN-BY: 230/0 240/5832 249/110 206 317 400 280/464 5003 288/100 292/854   
   SEEN-BY: 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 460/58 712/848   
   SEEN-BY: 770/1 2452/250   
   PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/101 426