powderfreak

Yeah the summers have seemed warmer and more humid too in the past 10 years, so if that trend continues A/C is a good move. I feel like even a decade ago no one around here had A/C... now everyone has installed something.

Damn that's impressive! The fireplace is key though. My buddy lost his boiler and kept his place going in the upper 60s with a single woodstove. Heat pump this spring for sure for me, need a backup source, it's too cold up here to mess around with that. Was -17F here last night but inducer fan is holding in there with the wire straps.

NAM is on crack IMO, ha.

Ha that's actually another thing that made us delay, the rebates at the end of last summer were very "meh" because those things had gotten so popular. But I just read somewhere that Efficiency Vermont has another deal running this winter with $1K back if purchased before February 28th. They seem to do them with the demand, so I've got to get on that. It seems to change every couple months to be honest.

That’s wild. I mean it’s been lots of radiational nights but still even historically mixed places like BTV have been below zero like half the days for mins. BTV -7F MVL -17F Thats the radiational difference.

-17F. Fak me. This winter has been absurd for cold nights.

The irony is we were going to put in an electric heat pump for A/C and heat last August/September but deferred until the spring. I wanted it primarily for better AC than what we have now and it’s much more efficient. Had we gone ahead with that project we’d be fine. It wouldn’t have been hot like a stove but serviceable heat. I just balked as I wanted it for better AC than what we have now and given it was later in summer, temps on downhill slide, I figured we’d do it in April/May before the warm season. Oops.

Boiler inducer motor anchor screws are loose/compromised and it vibrated enough to where the fan jammed up by making contact with the housing. Without that fan moving air, the thing won’t ignite. Need a new inducer motor unit which from what I was shown looks like a pretty easy fix once the part is in. They cost a couple hundred bucks as a part online. I’ll give the guy credit, he jerry-rigged it as well as he could with pipe strapping to attempt to keep the fan from hitting the housing and we are back up in the mid-60s for temps. Fingers crossed that strapping can hold for a few days.

BTV’s version…

That looks beautiful. Ice storms in the sun are about as picturesque as it gets.

Hard to get “parents” and “girth” in the same sentence but nicely done.

Woke up early this morning and it felt cold inside... huh. Checked thermostats, set-temps all at 65F and all zones reading the same 60F. Uh oh. That's a sinking feeling when temps are in the single digits outside. Not sure what's up, went downstairs and seems the boiler is not igniting... the fan runs, the thermostat zone relays all are asking for heat (it's baseboard hot water) but boiler (propane) doesn't want to ignite. A bit harder on a Saturday but emergency service should be here any minute, about 6 hours after I discovered the issue. Meanwhile my perpetual optimism has me thankful this issue has allowed me to have my first Saturday off from work since November, ha. This is so nice, getting some stuff done on an extra day off around home while it's 52F inside now. The funny thing is even at temps of like 10F the floor to ceiling south facing windows have managed to recover the temperature up a couple degrees in the past 90 minutes.

Some good skiing this morning.

I’ll be at Waterville on Tuesday for a Gear Day to test next year’s products… never been, looking forward to a foray into NH ski country.

Looks like 12.5” on the level here sticking a ruler into the dog run area… that’s 4” after 5am. Wife’s car has about 2” fluff since she got home at 2pm (about half inch per hour). I’ll take net increases of a solid foot and over 1” of QPF all day long. Snowbanks and town look like a winter wonderland, real ski town look.

Everyone around here is saying “forget nor’easters, our best snow comes from the west” lol. This was a fun event… threaded the needle to see widespread 1”+ QPF on the narrow cold side. Heck even MVL ASOS had over an inch of water and that gauge rarely reports any water when it snows, ha.

You guys were in the zone on the PNS and water reports. Right where models had it.

We jacked up. The big Harlow Hill is crushing people. That’s an awesome cam, got a link to that?! Looks like it’s on the VTrans sign?

It's quite possible that since like 8pm last night there was more snow in Montpelier as it was further southeast. The mountain totals include the 3-5" of dense wet snow that fell yesterday when it was raining down lower. That is what got the storm totals to the 15-18" range. I bet MPV had similar to 3,000ft since both elevations started seeing snow.

It just keeps snowing. Long duration storm. Snowing pretty hard too. 16" at the mountain now.

It’s perfect snow, not wet but dense. Like a small cold Sierra snowfall. They’d probably call it snow showers, but you know the type. Baking powder tiny flakes.

At the mountain 3,000ft as of 9am we had roughly 14" or 14.5" at the High Road Plot. 5" through 4pm and then 9.5" overnight. The bonus snows are here in full fluff factor now after the first 14" were very dense.

At the mountain 3,000ft as of 9am we had roughly 14" or 14.5" at the High Road Plot. 5" through 4pm and then 9.5" overnight. The bonus snows are here in full fluff factor now after the first 14" were very dense.

9” and dumping. Euro has a nice daytime bonus from 9am-9pm.

Eyeballing 8” or so of tiny flake baking soda outside at 4:30am. Feels like ratios can’t be better than 10:1 despite the cold. Looks awesome. Euro has this from 9am to 9pm today so snow should go most of today too.